Is my ricordea Florida splitting or unhappy?

[Dad2Wyatt]

I’ve had this mushroom for about 2 weeks so far. So far in my tank I can look at it wrong and it will get ticked and curl up. I accidentally bumped the frag while cleaning yesterday and knocked it into a crevice. It curled up immediately when I replaced it, (which was not surprising after I abused it moving lol) but I woke up this morning to it looking like this… any thoughts?

 

[shadow_k]

What’s the flow looking like it looks like it can’t open

 

[shadow_k]

I’ll also tag @LRT the shroom master

 

[shakacuz]

seems to be splitting, but could also be a flow being too strong issue.

 

[muzikalmatt]

I can't say definitely, but it looks like it's splitting. I have the same colormorph of Ricrodea Florida and when it splits, it pinches like your photos with the two separate mouths on either side of the pinched portion.

 

[Dad2Wyatt]

What’s the flow looking like it looks like it can’t open

I did move it to a little higher flow area but honestly not a huge increase!

 

[Dad2Wyatt]

I was hoping this was the case! I did slightly increase its flow but not drastically. Just haven’t seen it do this yet! I will keep checking on it and move it down if I need to

 

[Dad2Wyatt]

I also am about to replace one powerhead and add another so I’m sure there may need to be some changes made then

 

[Dad2Wyatt]

Update for everyone! Added a couple new powerheads today and my ricordea Yuma’s hated it. Neither of my Floridas seemed affected.

just went in to make one more adjustment(was worried I was blasting my torch with a direct stream) and saw that the ricordea in this post has almost completely split in two! Thanks for the help everyone!