i was told a great trick to feed any corals, take a plastic bottle cut it in half use the size bottle that would fully dome over your coral, use the top end of the bottle that has the screw on cap, drill a hole in the cap just large enough to fit your syringe or baser and pump you food into the small hole while having the half of plastic bottle doming the coral and the food in
I've been keeping both Yuma and Florida for quite some time now. Ric yuma was one of my first saltwater animals. It is a rainbow colored one. And because I didn't know better: I placed it way down on the bottom of my tank. It is still in the same spot and doing well (4 years now) Working in a local fish store I see the tendency to place the yumas in the upper third of the tank and killing them. They shrink and die after a time. Try to place some in Low to medium light. Works fine for me if fed!
Interestingly, my Yuma actually reproduces in the way you described discosoma. The shroom moves around and leaves behind babies. It has never developed multiple mouths nor any rinkles indicating a split. It simply gets larger all the time, moves slowly and deposits babies. In the last 6 months it has produced 5 more Yuma.
I have not fed my yuma and i have had it for about 8 months. It has gone from maybe a 1 inch diameter to a 6 inch. The food also has been spreading out and leaving little buds with green mouths, so i cannot wait to see what they will grow into. My ricordea had bright orange tentacles with a purple body. love it!
R. yuma cannot tolerate intense direct light. They prefer low to moderate indirect light. They do best under fluorescent lamps (extended-source lighting). If you have metal halide or LED (point-source lighting), place them in the shade.
Ricordea florida reproduces by fission, while the yumas reproduce by pedal laceration, so don't throw away those pieces of rock that use to have yumas on them, you will get surprises! some of my yuma babies are about 2mm wide, and only saw them because they were fluorescing under the actinics at sunset! ;)
Hi Than, great video. I have a Yuma rock that I acquired from another reefer. I don't do anything special but it is thriving and growing and see new babies regularly
We have an Aquaculture business here in West Palm Beach, FL and I find it opposite of your issues with care of Yuma & Ricordea. For us, the Pacific Yuma thrives well, we even frag them for grow out for our trade shows, however the Caribbean Ricordea seems to only last a few days before slowly fading away. We have 12 different grow out tanks, each set up is slightly different, and tried about all of them for the Ricordea with the same results. We grow SPS, LPS, and Softies. You are very correct when stating how pricey some of the really cool colored Yuma's sell for. Even the one colors that are extremely large fetch a high dollar. Very nice video, thanks for posting. A Better Fish Bowl, inc.
Heard high light thing is a misconception because of how shallow they are found...heard every diver that finds them is by finding them on the underside of rocks or in the shade and never in direct light
hey than, love your videos, any way i bought 2 small yumas about 7 months ago, they were just a bit bigger than a quarter, now i have a total of 8 in my tank, the biggest is about 3-4 inches across, yumas have been the biggest success of my tank, all my larger ones keep budding new ones all the time, it stretches out its foot and leaves behind a small yuma, ive sold about 3 so far, they've been one of the best corals ive kept, i usually feed mine shrimp pellets and mysis shrimp and krill.
My Orange Yuma has been one of the most hardy corals in my nano, despite all the noob mistakes I made when first getting into the hobby. It readily accepts large meaty foods, and has grown very large, although it has never split. Rics are my favorite.
I have great success with yuma's I have the green variety they like it half way up on 120 tank with a 6 bulb T-5 One way to get them to leave a foot is too blast them with a Kessil 150 for about 3 hours it will cause the yuma to move and leave a foot, when buying them look for ones that are growing on a rock not on the frag plugs look to see if it is having little babies on the rock, that piece will grow more yumas then the singular ones you buy at the store. I have over 33 yumas in my tank I bought maybe 8. Thanks for the video very informative I have always notice mine always had one mouth and not multiples.
my parents have a 7 year old 55 gallon tank that they couldnt really seem to keep much alive in except mushrooms. they grow like crazy in their system. they have a few extremely bright yumas and ric's and one rainbow ric' that is close to 3.5 inches. they didnt even know it was anything special. "it came with the tank" they said haha they also have a really nice acan that was about to die till i got into the hobby and forced them to upgrade a few things and o regular water changes. now everything is happy and coming back.
Thank you for posting this ricordea vid! you have reassure my care thought for my hot pink rainbow yuma(: she is loving her powdery food, low flow, and shady location(:
Hi, i keep Ricordeas (yumas and floridas) in my tank. I feed them at least every 2nd day with frozen food and medium sized LPS color and grow food (Fauna Marin). They feed really good on it.....
i have got a recordea yuma and i feed it this siamese fighting fish food called new life spectrum pellets he gobbles them up fast and i also found out that mushrooms like to eat these pellets swell.Give them a try :)
Interesting I don't target feed my mushrooms but Ibroadcast feed the whole tank with ab+reef energy then reef pulse never seen them close up but there all massive so they must be feeding 🤔🤔
i couldn't get any response to food from my yuma in the 6 months since it hitch hiked into my tank. it's only grown about a centimeter since then. i was looking with a flashlight to see what's been eating the coralline at night, and noticed the yuma's tentacles were extended. i offered it a piece of krill, which it readily accepted. lights had been out for several hours.
Jus saying. I think most people in this hobby know that zooxanthellae have a mutual realtion with corals and provide them with the nutrients they need for survival.
YUMA YUMA , colors amazing , they are as u said hard to keep . they feed, i used to feed mine big chunks or shrimp meet , they acted like plate corals . i think the secret will be very very very slow acclimation with a very slow change of conditions . i had a pink and a blue . the pink one survived for a longer time .
I have a really good success rate with yumas i leave mine at the bottom of the aquarium with medium light and good flow not strong i do feed my sea fan brine shrimp eggs and reef pearls they might be feeding off that but otherwise i dont feed them
what about those mushrooms that arnt ricordea but have smaller bumps all over them. they always get me at first, until i look closer and realize the bumps are same color as the base
I have a bright red ricordea that is up near my sps and in direct path of my ecotech powerhead. Its getting very large. I have another blue/green that moves itself into more of a shaded area and I rearely feed either. I guess the trick is to find out what yours likes and go from there.
HI Dan, I noticed at th-cam.com/video/_ug9aQFkYBo/w-d-xo.html the ricordea yumas you show have "folds". Ive also seen them lying flat. Is the folding normal behaviour?
You say feed as much as you can. Is that a piece (mysis) a day? A dusting a day? As much as you can without destroying the tank water? My kryptonite trumpet/candy cane (not sure) seem to be able to eat a big chunk (mysis/brine) per polyp nearly every day.
I have a tank that breeds Yuma. I do nothing special for them, yet they have taken over my tank. I need ways to keep them in check other than removing lots of live rock or just removing them. Anyone know of corals that will halt their movement, they have killed my acans, candy canes, and almost killed my hammer coral. Any help would be appreciated.
What you should do is just keep it as a Ricordia tank and sell them on eBay. You'll make enough to buy another tank in no time. Ricordia have great value, especially colorful ones.
I have a a number of mushrooms in my tank that in the post have responded very well to feeding shrimp. They take about 10mins to consume the food, but increase in size over the next few weeks. However, since adding two cleaner shrimp, it is impossible to feed the mushrooms because as soon as my back is turned, the shrimp come and pull the food out of the mushrooms mouth...! Any ideas as to how to stop the shrimp from steeling the food?
+Tidal Gardens Inc. how about Yumas, Rhodactis and Discosoma. Can they touch? I've all in the same area. Not touching for now, but in the future... My yumas and other mushrooms just ate frozen lobster eggs... all seem to love it... I usually dont feed them... it was just a candy, because they are an eye candy to me ehehe
Yea, I had a 3 inch cleaner shrimp and it would harass any thing that eats pellets.. Just get rid of it. You can always use a nassarius snail to pick up the leftover pellets. If you MUST have a shrimp... may be a sexy shrimp? they are small and easy to fill up their appetite! so once their tummy is filled.. they wont have an interest in stealing your mushrooms' food(:
Hi, can yumas and floridas live peacefully together and touch each other? thanks. great videos by the way, i watch all of them. Best coral videos on youtube FACT!! 👍
Imo, Ricordea yuma isn't sensitive or hard to care! 6 months ago i bought a yuma for only 5€. They don't like high flows and glare lights, but compared to other mushroom anemones, they need much more food. Yes they eat very slowly, but they can easily consume pieces of musselmeat quarter the size of their own. They just need time to devour it! I don't really care about my waterconditions, but imo Ricordea yuma ist one of the toughest anemones i've ever kept. Nothing special!
I can keep Yuma alive they shrivel up but Florida not a problem rodactis not a problem disco not a problem but my tank is sps dominated mushrooms are on the own part
I just got a beautiful Yuma (Orange, blue, purple)... Gorgeous Yuma, 1/2 dollar sized for thirty bucks. Almost had the guy down to $25 until his buddy talked him out of it. That's because they are a private owned lfs and had no idea what they even had. They sold it to me at Florida Ricordea prices. They sell great stuff, but a few of them have no idea what they are doing. You need one of those. Lol. If they shipped I'd tell ya, but they don't. At least not yet. If they do, I'll hop back on and refer ya.
i was told a great trick to feed any corals, take a plastic bottle cut it in half use the size bottle that would fully dome over your coral, use the top end of the bottle that has the screw on cap, drill a hole in the cap just large enough to fit your syringe or baser and pump you food into the small hole while having the half of plastic bottle doming the coral and the food in
I've been keeping both Yuma and Florida for quite some time now. Ric yuma was one of my first saltwater animals. It is a rainbow colored one. And because I didn't know better: I placed it way down on the bottom of my tank. It is still in the same spot and doing well (4 years now)
Working in a local fish store I see the tendency to place the yumas in the upper third of the tank and killing them. They shrink and die after a time. Try to place some in Low to medium light. Works fine for me if fed!
Interestingly, my Yuma actually reproduces in the way you described discosoma. The shroom moves around and leaves behind babies. It has never developed multiple mouths nor any rinkles indicating a split. It simply gets larger all the time, moves slowly and deposits babies. In the last 6 months it has produced 5 more Yuma.
I have not fed my yuma and i have had it for about 8 months. It has gone from maybe a 1 inch diameter to a 6 inch. The food also has been spreading out and leaving little buds with green mouths, so i cannot wait to see what they will grow into. My ricordea had bright orange tentacles with a purple body. love it!
R. yuma cannot tolerate intense direct light. They prefer low to moderate indirect light. They do best under fluorescent lamps (extended-source lighting). If you have metal halide or LED (point-source lighting), place them in the shade.
Ricordea florida reproduces by fission, while the yumas reproduce by pedal laceration, so don't throw away those pieces of rock that use to have yumas on them, you will get surprises! some of my yuma babies are about 2mm wide, and only saw them because they were fluorescing under the actinics at sunset! ;)
Hi Than, great video. I have a Yuma rock that I acquired from another reefer. I don't do anything special but it is thriving and growing and see new babies regularly
Thank you!! Just picked up a Florida I believe and it may be my favorite coral right now!!
I have a yuma that is walking and leaving babies in its wake!
We have an Aquaculture business here in West Palm Beach, FL and I find it opposite of your issues with care of Yuma & Ricordea.
For us, the Pacific Yuma thrives well, we even frag them for grow out for our trade shows, however the Caribbean Ricordea seems to only last a few days before slowly fading away. We have 12 different grow out tanks, each set up is slightly different, and tried about all of them for the Ricordea with the same results.
We grow SPS, LPS, and Softies.
You are very correct when stating how pricey some of the really cool colored Yuma's sell for.
Even the one colors that are extremely large fetch a high dollar.
Very nice video, thanks for posting.
A Better Fish Bowl, inc.
I have the same problem in the same area of Florida you still open for business
Yuma definitely split via pedal laceration as well. Mine leave behind pieces of their foot almost every week.
Thats what mine has done. I have never seen my yumma split by anything other than laceration.
Heard high light thing is a misconception because of how shallow they are found...heard every diver that finds them is by finding them on the underside of rocks or in the shade and never in direct light
Yes, maybe I can see why they don’t tend to do well for them 🤔 saw the medium-high light and thought what..
hey than, love your videos, any way i bought 2 small yumas about 7 months ago, they were just a bit bigger than a quarter, now i have a total of 8 in my tank, the biggest is about 3-4 inches across, yumas have been the biggest success of my tank, all my larger ones keep budding new ones all the time, it stretches out its foot and leaves behind a small yuma, ive sold about 3 so far, they've been one of the best corals ive kept, i usually feed mine shrimp pellets and mysis shrimp and krill.
What temp you keep your tank at?
Oops, 5 years later, lol
thanks Man, nice shots, good effort put into it..
My Orange Yuma has been one of the most hardy corals in my nano, despite all the noob mistakes I made when first getting into the hobby. It readily accepts large meaty foods, and has grown very large, although it has never split. Rics are my favorite.
I have great success with yuma's I have the green variety they like it half way up on 120 tank with a 6 bulb T-5 One way to get them to leave a foot is too blast them with a Kessil 150 for about 3 hours it will cause the yuma to move and leave a foot, when buying them look for ones that are growing on a rock not on the frag plugs look to see if it is having little babies on the rock, that piece will grow more yumas then the singular ones you buy at the store. I have over 33 yumas in my tank I bought maybe 8. Thanks for the video very informative I have always notice mine always had one mouth and not multiples.
my parents have a 7 year old 55 gallon tank that they couldnt really seem to keep much alive in except mushrooms. they grow like crazy in their system. they have a few extremely bright yumas and ric's and one rainbow ric' that is close to 3.5 inches. they didnt even know it was anything special. "it came with the tank" they said haha they also have a really nice acan that was about to die till i got into the hobby and forced them to upgrade a few things and o regular water changes. now everything is happy and coming back.
Thank you for posting this ricordea vid! you have reassure my care thought for my hot pink rainbow yuma(: she is loving her powdery food, low flow, and shady location(:
Hi, i keep Ricordeas (yumas and floridas) in my tank. I feed them at least every 2nd day with frozen food and medium sized LPS color and grow food (Fauna Marin). They feed really good on it.....
i have got a recordea yuma and i feed it this siamese fighting fish food called new life spectrum pellets he gobbles them up fast and i also found out that mushrooms like to eat these pellets swell.Give them a try :)
I allways end up on one of your videos when I want propper info😉
I know Im kind of off topic but do anyone know a good website to stream new series online?
@Tyler Darren i would suggest flixzone. Just google for it =)
@Gavin Titan yup, been watching on flixzone for since april myself :)
@Gavin Titan Thank you, signed up and it seems like a nice service :D I really appreciate it !
@Tyler Darren you are welcome xD
Thank you so much Than for this video! First to watch and just ran into it by chance! Haha
Interesting I don't target feed my mushrooms but Ibroadcast feed the whole tank with ab+reef energy then reef pulse never seen them close up but there all massive so they must be feeding 🤔🤔
we have 9 pups from our ricordia yuma after only 6 months in our 150 gallon and all doing well !!
That's great! Not everyone has success with Ricordea yuma.
i couldn't get any response to food from my yuma in the 6 months since it hitch hiked into my tank. it's only grown about a centimeter since then. i was looking with a flashlight to see what's been eating the coralline at night, and noticed the yuma's tentacles were extended. i offered it a piece of krill, which it readily accepted. lights had been out for several hours.
Jus saying. I think most people in this hobby know that zooxanthellae have a mutual realtion with corals and provide them with the nutrients they need for survival.
YUMA YUMA , colors amazing , they are as u said hard to keep . they feed, i used to feed mine big chunks or shrimp meet , they acted like plate corals . i think the secret will be very very very slow acclimation with a very slow change of conditions .
i had a pink and a blue . the pink one survived for a longer time .
My nitrates are 15ppm and i feed red sea ab+ .They leave baby's arround. So there doing fine
I have a really good success rate with yumas i leave mine at the bottom of the aquarium with medium light and good flow not strong i do feed my sea fan brine shrimp eggs and reef pearls they might be feeding off that but otherwise i dont feed them
they come frozen and can usually be found at your local pet store.
Do you feed your sps if so you should make a video on feeding them
i got a yuma today hope it does well
One of my Fav corals. Mine has lots of baby yumas
Ricordea yuma iv seen mostly 45 meters deep and the shallow ones from like 5 meters , those are mostly found in the shaded areas ......
Mine don't take the music shrimp, but brine shrimp they love
what about those mushrooms that arnt ricordea but have smaller bumps all over them. they always get me at first, until i look closer and realize the bumps are same color as the base
How fast do the Florida variety grow??
very nice video!
I have a bright red ricordea that is up near my sps and in direct path of my ecotech powerhead. Its getting very large. I have another blue/green that moves itself into more of a shaded area and I rearely feed either. I guess the trick is to find out what yours likes and go from there.
My Yuma just gave me my 1st baby it doesn’t move around tho…my Florida has 2 mouths but no signs of splitting
Mine has 3 and no split yet.
HI Dan, I noticed at th-cam.com/video/_ug9aQFkYBo/w-d-xo.html the ricordea yumas you show have "folds". Ive also seen them lying flat. Is the folding normal behaviour?
I keep my Yuma’s feed they seem to grow well with that avoid large food with this I’ve noticed they do not do well with larger pieces
Can u glue fl rics on the petal not the foot?
hey thanks Stan
Can they just appear in a tank?
Hey Dee, where do you find music shrimp? ;) lol
You say feed as much as you can. Is that a piece (mysis) a day? A dusting a day? As much as you can without destroying the tank water? My kryptonite trumpet/candy cane (not sure) seem to be able to eat a big chunk (mysis/brine) per polyp nearly every day.
Hello ... dose mushrooms fight each other whit deferents spices of mushrooms????? I have ricordeas and st Thomas together... thanks
curious on this too, will florida sting yuma? will rhodactis sting either one?
bootysismeat01 well no one answers but my Florida almost kill my santomas it burn it like an anemone so be careful 👍
My Ricordia Florida is a pretty aggressive feeder.
I have a tank that breeds Yuma. I do nothing special for them, yet they have taken over my tank. I need ways to keep them in check other than removing lots of live rock or just removing them. Anyone know of corals that will halt their movement, they have killed my acans, candy canes, and almost killed my hammer coral. Any help would be appreciated.
What you should do is just keep it as a Ricordia tank and sell them on eBay. You'll make enough to buy another tank in no time. Ricordia have great value, especially colorful ones.
I have a a number of mushrooms in my tank that in the post have responded very well to feeding shrimp. They take about 10mins to consume the food, but increase in size over the next few weeks. However, since adding two cleaner shrimp, it is impossible to feed the mushrooms because as soon as my back is turned, the shrimp come and pull the food out of the mushrooms mouth...! Any ideas as to how to stop the shrimp from steeling the food?
Feed the shrimp first... when they stop eating THEN feed your mushrooms.
Can you place yumas and recordias together? Or each one needs their own space?
I wouldn't let them touch, but they are ok in the same tank.
+Tidal Gardens Inc. how about Yumas, Rhodactis and Discosoma. Can they touch? I've all in the same area. Not touching for now, but in the future... My yumas and other mushrooms just ate frozen lobster eggs... all seem to love it... I usually dont feed them... it was just a candy, because they are an eye candy to me ehehe
+Pedro4490 I would expect them to fight a little bit.
Sounds awesome, any videos? : D
Would u recommend florida for beginners?
Did you use Kerbal Space program music for this video?
+Adam Jeschke music credits are in the video description.
I have gad good luck feeding both my R. Florida and Yuma fauna marin LPS pellets.
Do they ever sting fish?
Yea, I had a 3 inch cleaner shrimp and it would harass any thing that eats pellets.. Just get rid of it. You can always use a nassarius snail to pick up the leftover pellets.
If you MUST have a shrimp... may be a sexy shrimp? they are small and easy to fill up their appetite! so once their tummy is filled.. they wont have an interest in stealing your mushrooms' food(:
I have 4 ricoria there my favourite
what is the best begginer corals
zoas
I hold mine in low flow and low light and I feed a lot of meat food😄😁👊
feed a mix of seachem zoo and photo just let it flow into the water column they will eat aggressivly
ive always read medium to low light
Hi, can yumas and floridas live peacefully together and touch each other? thanks. great videos by the way, i watch all of them. Best coral videos on youtube FACT!! 👍
yumas and floridas can touch each other yes
3:06 Those tentacles at the back, what re those?
looks like a mini brittle star
Imo, Ricordea yuma isn't sensitive or hard to care!
6 months ago i bought a yuma for only 5€. They don't like high flows and glare lights, but compared to other mushroom anemones, they need much more food. Yes they eat very slowly, but they can easily consume pieces of musselmeat quarter the size of their own. They just need time to devour it! I don't really care about my waterconditions, but imo Ricordea yuma ist one of the toughest anemones i've ever kept. Nothing special!
Cool
i dont have any luck either with these guys...
my yuma petol laceration
I can keep Yuma alive they shrivel up but Florida not a problem rodactis not a problem disco not a problem but my tank is sps dominated mushrooms are on the own part
I think they dont react on small food because its just not worth spending energy on digesting such food.
Mysis, dam auto correct drives me nuts...lol
gosh darnit...i thought you had all the yuma secets...
Ric are not mushrooms that are anamones
***** Order Corallimorpharia: Coral anemones. Solitary or colonial, flattened mushroom-like anemones. Don't just look on live aquria
***** GOOGLE Corallimorpharia
and not the wiki
reading you're responses really make me annoyed. Lol. Coralimorphs are a type of anemone. BTAs are not the only anemone in existance.
Interesting all my ricordea eat reef roids like crazy
Prices on yuma is a FUCKING JOKE.
I just got a beautiful Yuma (Orange, blue, purple)... Gorgeous Yuma, 1/2 dollar sized for thirty bucks. Almost had the guy down to $25 until his buddy talked him out of it. That's because they are a private owned lfs and had no idea what they even had. They sold it to me at Florida Ricordea prices. They sell great stuff, but a few of them have no idea what they are doing. You need one of those. Lol. If they shipped I'd tell ya, but they don't. At least not yet. If they do, I'll hop back on and refer ya.
Unless of course you happen to live in Maine?