Ricordea Ultra Yuma

Despite coming from 2 different locations, the florida and the yuma are not all that different in terms of husbandry. Ricordea tend to enjoy a medium to high light due to normally growing in shallow waters where they are exposed to more light in the wild. This amount of light will allow them to color up nicely.

When it comes to flow, try to keep it more modest. Low to medium flow would be best for Ricordea. Too much flow could cause this corallimorph to not extend fully or blow around in the tank. If a Ricordea detaches from its substrate, place it in a low flow area of the aquarium with some rubble and it will reattach on its own.

came across something very interesting when it comes to how these mushrooms feed. They will react to very fine foods, like a cloudy supernate that you would get by thawing frozen food, but they won’t actually eat it. They'll check it out, realize they don't want that food, then ignore it.

Ricordea florida and Ricordea yuma will both do better with meatier foods, but try to keep the food pieces to the size of half the size of a mysis shrimp. They can eat whole mysis, but it will take them quite a while to do so.



If you want to go the extra mile when it comes to feeding, adding amino acids to your regimen will also be very beneficial to your corals.

Amino Acids are simple organic compounds that play a major role in building proteins as well as other biological functions at the cellular level. There are a little over 20 different types of amino acids. Most of them can be synthesized by the organism but some cannot be and must be taken in by feeding. Those amino acids are termed essential amino acids and they vary from species to species. Corals regularly take in available amino acids from the water column so it is easy to provide them with adequate quantities by broadcast feeding an amino acid solution. They are available from any number of commercially available reef supplement manufacturers. This may be the easiest way to feed your corals because as long as amino acids are bioavailable in the water column, the corals will soak them up