Bleaching Florida Ric

[toygrr]

One of my ricordea has decided to bleach this last couple days. It's been shriveled, mouth open, expelling zoox for 2 days now. This particular coral I've had for 3+ months, has budded 5 times, and has been very full and healthy. Theres 3 other colors of rics, 2 btas, various euphyllia and other LPS all happy and healthy. I haven't changed anything, parameters are stable where they've been.

I plan on removing it from the rock tonight to put it under a shady rock to rule out lighting exposure as the issue. I'll try and feed it tomorrow. Any suggestions?

 

[DSC reef]

Any other coral nearby that could be stinging it with a sweeper tentacle? Usually a rapid change in chemistry or light intensity causes the issues you've experienced but you covered all the questions. For now I'd move it to lower light. My florida ricordea used soak up the halides. Almost grew to a nuisance level. Lol.

 

[toygrr]

Any other coral nearby that could be stinging it with a sweeper tentacle? Usually a rapid change in chemistry or light intensity causes the issues you've experienced but you covered all the questions. For now I'd move it to lower light. My florida ricordea used soak up the halides. Almost grew to a nuisance level. Lol.

Yeah thats why I'm stumped, everything is happy, the rics are all next to each other. Theres an RFA near them but I'm pretty sure it couldnt have reached, maybe....

We'll see what happens after the move I guess, thanks for the reply.

 

[DSC reef]

Yeah thats why I'm stumped, everything is happy, the rics are all next to each other. Theres an RFA near them but I'm pretty sure it couldnt have reached, maybe....

We'll see what happens after the move I guess, thanks for the reply.

You'revery welcome, hopefully it was just a fluke.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Can you share a picture? Corals generally don't bleach after 3 months, and I've got RFA's buried (touching) in my rics for years without any problem.

 

[toygrr]

Can you share a picture? Corals generally don't bleach after 3 months, and I've got RFA's buried (touching) in my rics for years without any problem.

There it is all shriveled up next to a healthy one and all of its babies.

It's about the size of a dime, usually it's all puffy and about 2" across

 

[toygrr]

I was informed on Reddit that this was a Ricordea yuma, can anyone confirm that? I guess they're harder to care for?

No changes today, and the rest of the offspring and other tics still look fine alongside my other corals/nems.

 

[SnappyShrimp]

It looks like a yuma to me and from what I've read, they tend to be harder to care for and do sometimes melt randomly after some time. I was just reading through this thread to see if there have been many updates on yuma care but doesn't seem like it:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ricordea-yuma-care-and-trials-tribulations.41013/

 

[toygrr]

It looks like a yuma to me and from what I've read, they tend to be harder to care for and do sometimes melt randomly after some time. I was just reading through this thread to see if there have been many updates on yuma care but doesn't seem like it:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ricordea-yuma-care-and-trials-tribulations.41013/

Thanks I'll read through it. The 5 babies it budded are all growing and colorful, as well as everything else in my tank, so I guess 1 for 6 isn't too bad haha.

Ill keep doing what I'm doing and count it as a lesson learned about yumas.

Edit: oh yeah I did already read through this thread as well, but thank you for sharing and your reply!