Lavender Ricordea Florida Mushroom is one of the popular colors of the Ricordea Florida Mushroom. A beautiful mushroom coral found in areas of the Atlantic ocean. A very hardy mushroom coral, it adapts well to a wide range of lighting conditions. The brightness and vibrance of the colors is absolutely outstanding. View under actinic lighting and the florescence of this animal will shock you!
Aggressiveness
Semi-aggressive
Water Flow and Lighting
Florida Ricordea are easy to maintain in the reef aquarium. They prefer a low to moderate water movement, and a low to moderate lighting level. Lighting can be Power compacts, T5's, LED's or even Metal Halides. All lighting can grow Florida Ricordea Mushrooms as long as the proper level of light is provided. If a Par meter is available the appropriate lighting level is anywhere from a Par 80 all the way to a Par 200. Which is a wide range of acceptability. For lighting spectrum use between a 14-20K color spectrum for your bulbs for best coloration.
Placement
All mushrooms are semi-aggressive and require adequate space between themselves and other corals. Placement can be any where in the aquarium as long as it receives adequate water flow and lighting levels and leaves enough room around your corals that they have room for growth without infringing on another corals growing room or lighting.
Diet and Feeding
Ricordea mushroom corals receive the majority of their nutritional requirements through the process of photosynthesis, which simply means their lighting creates symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae in the body of the coral which provides its nutrition. We do recommend providing supplemental food such as micro-plankton or foods designed for filter-feeding invertebrates.
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