show me your rics !!!!!

[Coral Hoarder]

who are the ricordia keepers out there show off your stuff http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t602/scott-tang/fish%20stuff/IMG_20130923_144010_zpse6d7a03a.jpg (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/scott-tang/media/fish%20stuff/IMG_20130923_144010_zpse6d7a03a.jpg.html)
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t602/scott-tang/rics%20and%20shrooms/IMG_20130914_195440_zps22de427e.jpg (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/scott-tang/media/rics%20and%20shrooms/IMG_20130914_195440_zps22de427e.jpg.html)
http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t602/scott-tang/rics%20and%20shrooms/IMG_20130914_195430_zps1f75505d.jpg (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/scott-tang/media/rics%20and%20shrooms/IMG_20130914_195430_zps1f75505d.jpg.html)

[typezero]

This is my ricordia florida garden in my display tank.

Started from this
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k222/kimchixiv/57/592b3f7e.jpg (http://s89.photobucket.com/user/kimchixiv/media/57/592b3f7e.jpg.html)

To this
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k222/kimchixiv/57/DSC_1172_zps98845710.jpg (http://s89.photobucket.com/user/kimchixiv/media/57/DSC_1172_zps98845710.jpg.html)

To this :D
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k222/kimchixiv/57/DSC_2086_zps4f58321d.jpg (http://s89.photobucket.com/user/kimchixiv/media/57/DSC_2086_zps4f58321d.jpg.html)

[Magickiwi]

I'm a little curious why you fellas have decided to put the ricordia on the sand vs. attaching it to some of your rock work. They won't grow and propagate unless they can grow outward will they?

Beautiful specimens, and I have a couple on the way for me too :) Waiting for a MJC order is like trying to sleep on Christmas eve.

[Coral Hoarder]

wow awsome !!!!! they will grow mouths then you cut inbtween the mouths then you have two

[Spyd]

I only have one.... But, it's a nice one. :wink:

http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q489/spyd80/Corals34_zps03f925f0.jpg

[Coral Hoarder]

wow that is a nice one i wana pink one lol

[thmh]

I'm a little curious why you fellas have decided to put the ricordia on the sand vs. attaching it to some of your rock work. They won't grow and propagate unless they can grow outward will they?

Beautiful specimens, and I have a couple on the way for me too :) Waiting for a MJC order is like trying to sleep on Christmas eve.

We like to do "gardens" style with rics so we can control their propagation.Plus we find that rics get really big under shaded area.

~Tony

[Magickiwi]

We like to do "gardens" style with rics so we can control their propagation.Plus we find that rics get really big under shaded area.

~Tony

So fixing them to live rock would let them propagate as they wish and keeping them attached to rocks in the sand bed forces them to stay small.

My plan is to use them as coverage for my rock over broad areas in the middle to low portions of my tank.

[thmh]

I just like to control where my coral grows, but you can put them anywhere you like. In my experience i find mushrooms love shades / low light area.

[reefwars]

So fixing them to live rock would let them propagate as they wish and keeping them attached to rocks in the sand bed forces them to stay small.

My plan is to use them as coverage for my rock over broad areas in the middle to low portions of my tank.

mushrooms split so i dont think it matters where they grow as they are not encrusting;)

[lastlight]

mine have split just growing on the sandbed. it's become a problem now tho as the flow has been carrying them into the back of the tank and they get lost or buried.

[typezero]

Mine in its first stages were just on plugs but the last 2 stages they are attached to their own island rock stuck underneath some shade. I like to group them tightly together because they look the best folded onto of each other for the rippleling look and you can add more rics :D

[Magickiwi]

Mine in its first stages were just on plugs but the last 2 stages they are attached to their own island rock stuck underneath some shade. I like to group them tightly together because they look the best folded onto of each other for the rippleling look and you can add more rics :D

I'm screwed... I don't have really any shady spots in my main tank unless I can give some growth hormone to a monti colony and fabricate some.

[typezero]

I'm screwed... I don't have really any shady spots in my main tank unless I can give some growth hormone to a monti colony and fabricate some.

Id keep it anywhere near the sand-bed level, your order just got packed :)

[Magickiwi]

Id keep it anywhere near the sand-bed level, your order just got packed :)

It's not going out until tomorrow right? :) Thursday delivery right OMG I am looking forward to seeing the specimens.

[thmh]

It's not going out until tomorrow right? :) Thursday delivery right OMG I am looking forward to seeing the specimens.

Ya Iam shipping it Wednesday for Thursday arrival.

~Tony

[Magickiwi]

Ya Iam shipping it Wednesday for Thursday arrival.

~Tony

:microwav:

Let's see some more, these all look great!

[Coral Hoarder]

not my pic just on goolge thought id share http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t602/scott-tang/IMG_20130925_073611_zpsd80f3404.jpg (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/scott-tang/media/IMG_20130925_073611_zpsd80f3404.jpg.html)