ihglifelol Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 few days ago , I got a ricordea florida with 3 polyps on a live rock piece. 2 out of the 3 polyps had double mouths. The ricordea is closing a bit and randomly opens and randomly closes fully without showing tentacles. it mostly stays semi closed. My main guess about the behavior is that it is splitting because 2 out of the three had two mouths. is it splitting 😄 or sick 😞 hes is white with yellow tentacles. and has been doing well, and well at catching spare foods. which include brine i hope he is splitting :). maybe eating so much is making him split fast 😄 he has only been doing for a day so ya is he splitting and if yes, how long does it take Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 I've never seen ric florida with "white" base, so I'm gonna go with SICK. It could be due to too much light, or not enough food, or just unhealthy from the seller, etc. WIth regards to splitting, it's pretty much environmental and, possibly, stress related. Until you see them stretching, one healthy colony can have multiple mouths arrangement for quite some time before splitting. The multi-color one is a single connected colony, so is most of the bright green. Quote Link to comment
ihglifelol Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 i get that answer a lot. its a hybrid 😮 store has multiple of them and i asked them about mine and they said mine was raised by a single little polyp was recently glued to the rock and a part of a head wasn't full attached to the rock, when it retracted, more of it was getting attached, maybe trying to fully attached itself I only had it for 3 days so its maybe preparing itself Quote Link to comment
Lula_Mae Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 7 minutes ago, ihglifelol said: Looks pretty badly bleached to me. You could try a Lugol's iodine dip and put it in a low light, low flow area to see if it will recover. 1 Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 30 minutes ago, ihglifelol said: While it looks like it’s really stretching and ready to split. Sadly, it looks more like it’s splitting because it’s unhappy. Quote Link to comment
ihglifelol Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 He canged 😮 he has a very light green base Quote Link to comment
ihglifelol Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 he is trying to fully attach to the rock, he is eating fine and i see more of his stem attaching to the rock, probably pisses that my LFS raged his stem off the rock Quote Link to comment
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