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miztahphong2
06-03-2004, 01:01 AM
i bought a zoa colony and on the peice of lr it had a ricordea. it was under it and so i picked it off and layed it on a peice of live rock with little water flow. how long do you think it will take before it attatches?
Condiman
06-03-2004, 02:19 PM
Depending on water quality and lighting. It may be as little as a week but can take up to maybe 2 weeks.
miztahphong2
06-03-2004, 03:24 PM
oh okay. the ricordeas about 1 inch in diameter. do you think that its too small to divide into two ricordeas?
Condiman
06-04-2004, 04:45 AM
I dont see why not but if you let them get bigger they will be easier to handle.
miztahphong2
06-04-2004, 12:48 PM
oh okay. it looks a little larger now then when i put it in there.
fishgills
06-07-2004, 04:53 PM
You could also put a rubber band on it, (NOT) tight just enough to hold it to the rock so it doesn't float off the rock.
jman785
06-07-2004, 06:00 PM
Rubberbanding ricordea's isn't a good idea, because of their mouths, in my opinion it hasn't worked great for me.

What's an even better idea, is to take say a disposable tupperware dish, you know the ones that have snap on lids....and throw the lid out, and put a bunch of shells and crushed coral in it, live rock rubble will do as well, anything to block the flow of water will work, a bowl, a dish, etc...you do that, so that it can attach to the rubble, and then it can be removed from the dish and placed back in the tank. Works great.
Condiman
06-07-2004, 08:32 PM
What I have also seen is people taking wedding veil material and placing it over the ricordia. This way it keeps it in place and dosent physicaly put any stress on to the fragged ricordia.
jman785
06-07-2004, 08:41 PM
Yes, that's a good way to do it as well.

Wrap the veil over the ricordea and rubberband around the bottom part of the veil, not on the actual ricordea, like Garf does for some of their capnella and leathers.
miztahphong2
06-07-2004, 08:58 PM
yeah ive heard about using the wedding viel and thats what i use to attach loose shrooms. i even use the grocery store netting that they use to bundle in apples and such. but i just placed it on a peice of live rock where theres little water flow and its doing fine. thanks.
jman785
06-07-2004, 09:08 PM
http://www.garf.org/trever/MUSH.html
fishgills
06-08-2004, 11:10 AM
jman785 is right i was thinking of shrooms sorry.