Help with a sick ricordia

[garagebrian]

Hey all,

I just got my first florida ricordia and it was a loose shroom. I put it in my QT tank in a low flow area to try to get it to attach to some rock rubble.

Unfortunately, I woke up this morning to find some brown slime on the foot of the mushroom. I took a turkey baster and squirted off the brown junk and then did a lugol's dip for a couple of minutes.

I then took some soft mesh material and wrapped it around the ricordia against a rock and secured it with a rubber band. I then put this in a medium to high flow area of my tank to hopefully stop any buildup of the brown stuff.

My question is, did I do the right thing? Anything else I can do to help it survive?

For those interested, tank parms:
SG: 1.026
pH: 8.0
Ca: 320
Alk: 9.8
Mg: 1300
Nh4, N02, N03: all zero

Currently under 175W MH.

Brian

 

[Anonymous]

You did the right thing.

 

[Anonymous]

Agreed.

Sometimes, rics do that. After a day or so, it should be fine.

Did you notice if it had any thing attached that you could glue to rubble? Mine always seem to come with "something" to glue to.

 

[garagebrian]

It looked a lot better last night. I'll still keep an eye out for the brown slime returning. There was nothing to attach with, they guy must have carefully scraped the foot off. Personally when I frag a mushroom I always take a screwdriver and leave it attached to a small piece of rock.

But this was a freebie in a trade, so I can't complain

Brian

 

[gatorracer]

Mine did that too. But my story isnt as good. I took my suction line off my power head for my skimmer and set it in the water for a sec to clean the skimmer a bit. It fell down into the water and landed right on a ric. It sucked on the ric for about a minute before I noticed. When I pulled it off brown slime followed. I put it a little higher flow area and it healed up in about a week. The only good part was that where it tore the ric a bit, 2 more grew of that part. So I was actually happy. Now a month later I have a nice rock with 1- 1 1/2" ric and 2- 7/8" rics. Got lucky :wink:

 

[garagebrian]

Mine did that too. But my story isnt as good. I took my suction line off my power head for my skimmer and set it in the water for a sec to clean the skimmer a bit. It fell down into the water and landed right on a ric. It sucked on the ric for about a minute before I noticed. When I pulled it off brown slime followed. I put it a little higher flow area and it healed up in about a week. The only good part was that where it tore the ric a bit, 2 more grew of that part. So I was actually happy. Now a month later I have a nice rock with 1- 1 1/2" ric and 2- 7/8" rics. Got lucky :wink:

You do sound lucky! I doubt I would be that lucky and will stick with just letting it try to heal and attach. :lol:

B.