Bought my first rics

[seafansar]

Darn ricordea giveaway was enough to get me to buy some. I just got two from my lfs: an orange one and a blue one. I'm going to put them on a rock near the bottom of the tank. I have 175W MH that are way too close to the water and the tank is 18" deep. Sound good? Also I'm planning on dipping them in iodine.

I'll post pictures once they're in.

 

[seafansar]

The rics are attached to some shells. If I glue the shells to the rock I want them on, is there any chance they will move onto the rock? I'm guessing peeling them off the shells is a bad idea, right?

 

[seafansar]

Still acclimating

Blue ric with two mouths

Orange ric

 

[fishes2889]

Nice pickup!

Welcome to R2R btw Sara!

 

[Lytehouse]

Welcome.....

Looks like you've given them plenty of room to grow.

Good luck.

 

[seafansar]

Thanks!

 

[reef-nut]

Do not peel them off the shell. Glue the shell where you want them and in a couple weeks they will attach and be awesome!

 

[seafansar]

Thanks. A little late but, don't worry I didn't peel them off. I just glued the shells onto the rock. I'm hoping the blue one will attach to the rock soon, because half of it was just attached to tiny pieces of rock or something. I didn't glue that part down, just the shells.

 

[Fishhead Junkie]

I bought a nice orange ricordia a month ago and sort of attached it tilted on a rock. Over the course of a week, I watched it slowly start to stretch and at first thought it was dying on me but it was actually just dividing.

Now I've got 2 for the price of one...that's my kind of coral. My green ricordia which I've had for over a year has still never divided...it does seem to be growing a bit now that I have it directly below the lights and out in the open. Hope it divides too.

Steve

 

[seafansar]

Cool. I hope mine divide quickly too. I'd love my rocks to be covered in rics!

I glued one of the shells the blue one is attached to, to the rock in hopes that the other side of the ric will split off and attach to the rock. So far it's just slowly swaying in the current. The orange ric is really big. It's oval shaped and like 3" across. It folds itself over the shell, so it only looks half its size. Funny that the smaller ric has 2 mouths and the larger one only 1 mouth.

 

[seafansar]

Well the smaller blue ric split while I was away on vacation. It was nice to come home to a new ric. The orange one looks like it might split too. It's grown very long and looks like it'll split down the middle. It's huge right now. It's crazy how much those and my other corals grew while I was gone! (I was gone for a little over a month.)

 

[coral88]

Sounds like they are doing good. I have a orange ric that took almost a year to start growing and just split a week ago, It always looked happy just didn't grow and then in the lat few months it just took off. So do you have some new pics for us

 

[seafansar]

I'll try and take new pics and some of it while it was realllllly stretched out tomorrow when the lights are back on.

 

[seafansar]

Here's the new one.

And here's the orange one that kinda looks like it's going to split too.

 

[ahayes13]

nice rics! love the orange... dont know if you know this but gravity will help them split. if you keep the rock on an angle in the direction of the split ...

 

[seafansar]

Thanks! I actually did use gravity to split the blue one. It was attached to two shells. I glued one to the rock and I didn't glue the other one.
This is was happened:
Can't really tell anything is happening, but about a week later you sure could!

You can see the shell below the ric.

The orange one is on the side of the rock (easier to see in the older pictures). Gravity may already be helping it along.

 

[Nate82]

oh so i just learned that rics are aggressive as hell so be careful one got my scolly! ha they look so innocent don't even have sweepers but just a heads up as they are your first

 

[seafansar]

Thanks for the heads up. They look so innocent! Mine are pretty far away from other corals, so there shouldn't be a problem. Sorry to hear yours got your scolly! Hopefully it'll recover alright.

 

[Nate82]

ha actually the things a champ check it out https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12255

 

[jules11vb]

Sara,
In the second photo of your blue one stretching out...I noticed something I've seen in my tank but I don't know what its called or what it does. Just to the right of the bottom of the blue one there's a mound of sand that has little orange tentacles outstretched. I've seen these in my tank and I guess they are some kind of worm. What is it? Is it safe? Thanks.