Help with Ricordia Mushroom Rescue?

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I have a nice ~2 inch Yellow Ricordia that was having difficulty attaching to my rock. Over the last two weeks I kept picking it up off the sand and placing in on ledges in similar locations to my other two Ricordias, a day or two later it would be back on the sand. I should have left it there.

The rock is very porous with several largish holes. This Ricordia shrunk up and has fallen down in to a deep hole. I can barely see it, and then only a glimmer of yellow from another side hole. I don't think the ricordia has any way of getting out of the hole, and I've tried to go after with tweezers, but I'm afraid I'm going to tear it apart getting it out.

Advice? Thoughts?
 

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I have had the same exact thing happen, and yes, unfortunately tweezers was a bad idea. “If” the particular hole goes all the way through the rock (and “possibly” even if not), maybe a blast of water from a turkey baster or pipette will blast it through/out if it has not yet attached?
 

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