Ricordia advise

[etszoo]

Long story short. Have one. Starting to shrink and lose it's color. What am
I doing wrong? Params are excellent. Shrooms are multiplying. All other inhabitants healthy.
Any help or ideas?
Eric

 

[Ray]

I had the same thing happen and one day it was just gone until I moved everything over from the 29 to the 60 I found it still small but has color, not sure why but I would like to know.

 

[dad300]

Eric,
You might want to try a post over on Rc in the Corallimorphians forum. its in the special interest forums. Seems like everytime I look at it it is 90% ric questions.

 

[etszoo]

What's RC?

 

[newreefer03]

RC= reefcentral.com

 

[etszoo]

Was kidding. I checked it out anyway. Basically said they do well under most conditions. Did not say anything about flow though. Do they like a lot?

 

[Richard]

My rics do receive good flow. you can see the polyps moving back and forth. I also feed them every once in a while. I hope that helps. They are also on the bottom of the tank aprox20" below 250W MH.

 

[SMS76]

I read before that you have to feed them to keep them happy and growing...

 

[wrassefan]

Maybe the shrooms are attacking chemically?? Too close?? Run some carbon and do a water change. Is the flow in the direction from the shrooms to the ricordia?? My ricordia never did well in high lights. Tried them under a ledge or between the brace of my tank for shadow. Had to move all mine to my low light tank.

 

[etszoo]

I only have PCs. Have been running carbon. My tank is only 5months old. Hopefully it
bounces back...maybe it wasn't time yet. I'll try moving it away from my shrooms in
a better flow area. Thanks for all the advise guys.

 

[Richard]

If you only have pcs try to move them higher if they are on the botton of the tank. They do require more lights then regular mushrooms.

 

[etszoo]

Higher too!
Thank you.

 

[denvig]

I had some under PC's and they did OK but no growth. After switching to MH 250s DE they have taken off with growth and starting to split.