Yuma Under Stress

[DeepBlue]

yuma closing....transparent slime appearing.....

dun know what happened.....the water seems fine...after checking...nitrate won't do that to it....too much lights?(placed in mid level of 4 FT tank)....

stressed by cleaner shrimp hanging ard it?

still investigating.... anyone got this problem before?

[wedgee]

Try to give it slightly more circulation, and pray...it seems to be spitting its guts out...

[IcecruncherZ]

Wow... looks like its in bad shape... actually I think maybe lower current & light for a while might do it good... is there a sump you could isolate it?

Hope it pulls through

[DeepBlue]

I will be happy if the gut is just slightly out..the whole piece split....

could it be the prata I put REAL near to it a week ago(lasted a week)

hmmm............................................................

[IcecruncherZ]

I just remembered something... I once had a piece of Green Frilly Metallic Shroom that did the same thing. It spewed out everything and was splitting from the mouth, as in i could actually see the rock at the place where the mouth was supposed to be. Surprisingly it didnt die and EVEN more surprisingly, it split into 2...

Hopefully yours is also reproducing in this rather morbid and radical manner!

[Clownfish]

Gd luck!

[Ricordia]

yuma closing....transparent slime appearing.....

dun know what happened.....the water seems fine...after checking...nitrate won't do that to it....too much lights?(placed in mid level of 4 FT tank)....

stressed by cleaner shrimp hanging ard it?

still investigating.... anyone got this problem before?

If your Yuma is trying to reproduce by performing pedal laceration method,

I think it has done quite a messy job.

Anyway, it should not be a big problem as.....

I cut my Ricordea florida into 4 equal quadrant for propagation purposes (not animal abuse), all of them now growing bigger and stronger daily.

I attached pic on a very rare Super-Colored Ricordea yuma reproducing in a tank by Pedal Laceration.

cheers.

[vagabond]

Can teach us some propogation technic?

[Ricordia]

Can teach us some propogation technic?

Ricordea Propagation

1) Get a good healthy specimen (preferably 50 cents size)

2) Mercilessly CUT them into four equal pieces.

3) I have a tank specially for propagation of ricordeas only.

- no fish but algae cleaning crew only.

- with mild current

(adjusted with the right flow = freshly cut ricordea stay on the small LR

provided)

4) Other Attachment techniques can also refer to Woonming or Deepblue.

5) My freshly cut ricordeas will attached itself to LR about 3 days.

6) Cut edges will start to recover by growing back its outer edge polyps first.

- (provided given the right water parameters and lights )

7) Later new mouth evloved.

8) My lighting is using 2x 11W PL 10,000K White/Blue

9) This neon green ricordea florida below was propagated 3 1/2 weeks back.

( outer edge polyps fully recover, now the inner portion.) See pic .

10) Size now is about 3/4 size of a twenty cents coin.

Hopefully these info can be of some help to you.

cheers

[boxfish]

seen on a coral documentary that when coral gets too close, one side will release the "guts" like those in your pic to dissolve the intruder. May not be related, just for info. Hope your yuma will return to normal soon.

[woonming]

[DeepBlue]

seem to be splitting into 2 smaller yumas now

I prefer a big frag than mulitple small ones......also can lah.....as long as it doesn't die

[IcecruncherZ]

Thats good news

Now you have 2 nice smaller yumas that you can feed to become huge ones again... haha~

[Ancelot]

anyway, if the BIG yuma is cut up will the smaller yumas go look for a rock themselves or do we have to cut their base and attach them? i wanna frag my hairy mushroom damm BIG but donnt know how, maybe u want to give a lesson on mushies and how to attach huh?

Experts plz write in!

[woonming]

seem to be splitting into 2 smaller yumas now

I prefer a big frag than mulitple small ones......also can lah.....as long as it doesn't die

DP it seem weird to me ..

As normally yuma growth by detaching and attaching themselves off the LR .. leaving some flesh behind to form a new growth..

They dont really spilt up ...

hehe