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TSA folks,
I bought this guy from TSA during the pre-black-Friday event: https://topshelfaquatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2ONLINE.Q10.111620-1.jpg
He looked pretty good about a day after I got him. Not quite like the TSA pic, but better than he does now. He slowly declined to look like this during QT:
The species is supposedly low-light, low flow. My QT is not very bright and I had him down low, so I don't think it's lighting. The QT is high-ish flow because I also had some montis in QT and the smallest powerheads I can find are still pretty powerful for a 20g. However, he was in the lowest flow area of the tank, right next to two other TSA 'shrooms, which did excellent. QT did get up to 40ppm nitrates, but about 25 other frags did fine less 2 zoa frags (not from TSA) that won't open for unknown reasons.
He's not dead and has no pests that I can see, so he went into DT yesterday with everything else in the hopes more stable DT conditions would help. He looked like he does in the picture even before moving to DT.
Any hints on ricordea care or advice other than leave him alone for a bit to see if he recovers in DT?
Also, do you know if that's a Caribbean/flordia ricordea or a yuma/pacific? (Supposedly the former are more hardy.)
I bought this guy from TSA during the pre-black-Friday event: https://topshelfaquatics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2ONLINE.Q10.111620-1.jpg
He looked pretty good about a day after I got him. Not quite like the TSA pic, but better than he does now. He slowly declined to look like this during QT:
The species is supposedly low-light, low flow. My QT is not very bright and I had him down low, so I don't think it's lighting. The QT is high-ish flow because I also had some montis in QT and the smallest powerheads I can find are still pretty powerful for a 20g. However, he was in the lowest flow area of the tank, right next to two other TSA 'shrooms, which did excellent. QT did get up to 40ppm nitrates, but about 25 other frags did fine less 2 zoa frags (not from TSA) that won't open for unknown reasons.
He's not dead and has no pests that I can see, so he went into DT yesterday with everything else in the hopes more stable DT conditions would help. He looked like he does in the picture even before moving to DT.
Any hints on ricordea care or advice other than leave him alone for a bit to see if he recovers in DT?
Also, do you know if that's a Caribbean/flordia ricordea or a yuma/pacific? (Supposedly the former are more hardy.)