Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 I picked this rock up from Tropicorium in Michigan yesterday. I paid $11.99. It's got 3 good sized full polyps and two that are splitting and still connected. I had a hard time getting the colors to show up correctly on these pictures. They're light colored (almost white) with flourescent yellow mouths and purple around the edges of the polyp. Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 Another angle. Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 Here's one with my camera flash turned on. ....just thought it looked cool. ??? Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 This is my emerald crab hiding in his spot underneath my giant blue mushroom. See him? All of the other mushrooms in the pic came from the one in the lower right. It keeps poppin out babies. There's 9 total. I paid $5 for the first one and It wasn't even attached to anything. I know this isn't a ricordea. I just threw it in for good measure. Link to comment
Wigguh Noony Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thats beautiful.. Nice pictures. Link to comment
The Unit Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 nice shrimp....i just got a mated pair of CBS....they both have a missing leg....do u know if they regenerat them and how lan git takes?.......thanks Link to comment
Spudds Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 That is the cleanest Emerald crab I have ever seen, you must take him out and scrub him, eh? Mine needs a bath, several snails have offered, he just doesn't accept. Spudds. Link to comment
madness Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Beautiful! Those rics must be gorgeous in person! Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 Thanks! Unit - I've had this shrimp for about 8 months now. I'm pretty sure that they do regenerage limbs. Has yours molted yet? I think that when they molt, often times they'll have the new limb hiding under the old exoskeleton. I had an anemone crab that was missing a claw. It appeared again when he molted. Spudds - I gave him a bubble bath. He loved it. I enjoyed it. It was a real bonding experience. I'd recommend it to anyone with an emerald crab. Link to comment
kimura Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Very nice! I have some similar white ricordeas, but instead of purple, they're pink boarders. We should have a site just for Ricordeas like they do for Zoo's. Link to comment
Korbin Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Hey those look really nice. Have you tried feeding them? Mine like little bits of chopped shrimp. I'll trade you one of my ricordias for one of yours Link to comment
R*Frost* Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 i think this is right when a shrimp sheads his shell or so to speak he will regerate his lost limbs. Just dont gewt worried when it looks like your shrimp population has doubled LOL:) Link to comment
2D_Todd Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 Tropicorium has some nice deals going on Ricordia rocks. I picked up a rock about a month ago that has 4 small to medium sized polyps and 1 huge polyp that is splitting... I think I paid $19 for it. The rock is about the size of a fist and also contained some encrusting sponges and a clam living in it. The clam unfortunatly was pulled out by one of my Emerald Crabs and torn to shreads. Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 18, 2003 Author Share Posted February 18, 2003 Korbin - If I can figure out how to frag my ricordeas, I'll trade with you. I would like to get some different colors. Link to comment
MKramer Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Fragging ricordias is simple. Slice and dice. I had one ric that I was trying to remove from another coral's skeleton, and I made a mess out of it. Ended up turning it into 4 pieces, all of which are now full-grown discs in other parts of the aquarium, plus the base material that I couldn't quite get all off the coral's skeleton grew into another ricordia. If I want to frag them, I slice one down the middle with a razor blade, then use the blade to slice one of the half's base from its rock. If I'm shipping, I fill a small cheap thermos 2/3 full with aquarium water, drop the frag in, seal it, box it, and send it 2-3 day mail. I've sent and received several this way without a single death. Link to comment
Korbin Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 MKramer, I did that exact same thing. Mine turned into a puddle of slime, which I dumped into the tank and it grew into 3 polyps. Or you could always just wait for them to grow on their own... zzz Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 20, 2003 Author Share Posted February 20, 2003 After I'm sure that they're ok, I might try that. How do you get the little chunks to attach to a rock then? Link to comment
MKramer Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 I hold them in place loosely with cheesecloth or similar netting, which is in turn held down by other rocks on the corners, or whatever's conveinent. I don't get exact placement this way, as the water can still blow them around a little, but I've had better success than with rubber band and the like. Unlike Korbin, I've never had the puddle-of-mush problem. Not sure why, though. Link to comment
leesnuts Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 How do you feed them? Do you stick a shrimp down their mouthes? Lee Link to comment
latazyo Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 rics like that cost 40 bucks for one small frag of it, I'm jealous of 11.99 Link to comment
MKramer Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Ricordia are photosynthetic. Put them in medium light and they'll never need manual feeding. I have one who lives in a spot that gets almost no light or water flow, and has split already since landing there 2 months ago. Link to comment
FlyGTI Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 I've always wanted to visit the Tropicorium. My old roommate and I (what's up Sandman?) were planning a road trip down from Mt. Pleasant a few years ago, but it never happened. Now we're both a hell of a long ways away from the T. Bummer. I've heard that that guy can grow almost anything he wants to with that setup he's got there. Man, why can't he just pack up his stuff and move to Iowa? Link to comment
sandman Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 Sniff sniff..just like old times....... Nice Pics BTW..what kind of camera/software are u using? Ryno..wonder if Kirk belongs this forum? Link to comment
FlyGTI Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 Doubtful... Come oN, dude. Cell phoNes baffled the guy! WTF is up with my N key? I caN't get the thiNg to priNt uNless I capitalize it. Link to comment
Drysocket Posted February 21, 2003 Author Share Posted February 21, 2003 Thanks....I've got a Fuji Finepix 2650 2.0 Megapixel. It's an awesome camera. Taking pictures under actinics takes some adjustments to the manual settings, though. Sometimes I'll mess with the coloring a bit in photoshop 7....usually just taking a little blue out. Link to comment
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