Biggest Single Ricordea & Ricordea Love

[ilikefish69]

Florida Ricordea mushroom don’t get enough love. They’ve stayed relatively immune to the “ultra rainbow super duper” naming trend , an after thought even, to most coral farmers and distributors. They always have been my favorite. Started all for reef a month or two ago just the liquid stuff and all coral from SPS to soft n squishy are very fluffy including these mushrooms

As far as the ricordea I’ve had one that’s stayed a single mushroom for over 8 months. All the other I’ve had have split 10-15 times and I can’t give them away fast enough. This guy has to be 7-8” across, the far left. It looks like it’s splitting but trust me it won’t , has done this a few times.

 

[blaxsun]

No they do not! I wish I still had pictures of my massive blue oxide ricordea yuma. The thing nearly spanned the width of a 25-gallon lagoon... The largest single ricordea I have at present is probably 4-5" across (they tend to split off or the dang fish frag them on me).

 

[Maxcito]

Agree! And I love mine. Best bang for your buck imo. Just I’m just guessing but if given too much light they don’t spilt, just my hypothesis thought. Two a year ago, and now the same just bigger.

 

[MrGisonni]

Love mine! I have a couple that I'm gonna have to try to get off my rocks because they are shading other beauties. I hope they are still attached to their tiles and not the scape.

 

[PeterErc]

Ric’s were hot years ago, back before the name game. The nice ones were 20+ a mouth back then. A guy I knew had someone break into his house. The only thing missing was his Ricordea.
They looked pretty nice in my tank j/k

 

[blaxsun]

Agree! And I love mine. Best bang for your buck imo. Just I’m just guessing but if given too much light they don’t spilt, just my hypothesis thought. Two a year ago, and now the same just bigger.

I wish I knew the trick to getting them to split or develop bounce (they seem to do this without fail in any lighting, placement or flow). Almost all of my rhodactis have morphed into these monster bounce creations (even some of the ricordea have some small bounce developing).

 

[MrGisonni]

I think it's a matter of space perhaps. If they can spread easily, they split, if not they grow huge and overtake other slower growing ones.