fraging ricordia

[desktopsilver]

does any one know how to frag dsome nice orange yuma ricordia ,,,mine have realy collered up nicely lattley and are really getting large 3-4 inches each ,,,,,,,i also have some nice blue and some nice green florida would this process be the same for those,,,,,,,,,,,,i heard somthing about cutting them and then rubberbanding them to a rock

 

[Mac1]

You can try snipping them, I've also read of ppl having success w/ that method. IME, Mushroom type corals in general, are very hard to deal w/ that way. They slime like crazy when you stress them, and the animals have a hard time growing if they don't have a mouth. In the center of the coral, is a little mouth. For some reason, the corals need to have this (though I've never witnessed mine eating). When a split does not have a mouth, it takes forever to grow, and a long time to heal over. I've heard of ppl cutting the coral so that each half has a mouth, but have also heard this results in a long heal time.

Now that the animals are acclimated and growing larger in your system, I would honestly recommend letting nature take it's course, as they will grow and propagate naturally on their own. The only "semi-natural" method I've heard of ppl using, is to place the corals very high up in the tank, so that they are getting blasted by light. Typically, Ricordea don't like this, so they try to 'walk' down the rock, to a lower position. In doing so, they leave a portion of their pseudopod behind, which ends up growing into a new mushroom. You just have to be careful w/ this method, as oxygen toxicity from being exposed to increased light can kill the coral.

- Mac

 

[wade1]

If you can pick up the rock that the ricordea are on, just wrap a tight rubberband around the entire ricordea across the center, or even 2, crisscrossing. The pressure will cause the mushroom to split into more, smaller versions and once those begin to grow well, they'll move away from one another (so if you want to trade them, place rubble rocks near the main rock so they can spread onto the rubble).

Wade