I’ve always wondered what type of shroom this was. Then I saw the Purple Rainbow Ricordea Yuma shrooms that Dr.Mac has advertised in his under 15$ frag section. My pics don’t show it, but they do have the same mouth as in Dr.Mac’s pictures.
I’d say that what I have is a Ricordea Yuma, but I’ve read that they’re typically harder to keep in aquariums, and the shrooms in my tank have spread like the plague. I’ve had one go around with Ricordea Florida in the past, and they slowly melted away into the abyss.
Thoughts?
Dr. Macs…and a link to give them props:
http://www.pacificeastaquaculture.com/Purple-Rainbow-Ricordea-yuma-*-WYSIWYG-X-M0101-Prodview.html
Mine:
Cool, thanks guys. If anyone wants some, lemme know, I have a ton of em. $5 for club members I guess, to be honest I’ve never sold anything out of my tank yet, they’ve all been free handouts, haha.
Typically the yumas are considered harder to keep in he aquarium during he first month of acclimation to your tank. They are sensative to changes in light and if moved to more intense light then they came from can easily melt to nothing. I have experianced this myself. But nowthat i have researched it I would not mind trying them again so if you are coming to the PEA tour this month I will take one or two if you have enough.
Yuma shrooms usually get pretty large compared to the typical Discosoma shroom? I have a 3/4" frag plug that has 2 of them piled up on it, and I have some in the tank on rocks that are 5-6" big…this might further the assumption that they are Yuma’s. I have green and red discosoma’s, just as prolific, but not nearly the size of these. These suckers are running $50 a piece for the larges at Doc’s. Wow.
I may be way off, but it looks like a rhodactis to me. I have some very similar looking that came from A, years ago, that are rhodactis shrooms. Under the bright lights they have more colors & patterns than with the previous set up. Here’s a link to one of the descriptions, the pic of the purple rhodactis looks similar. There are at least 6 sub species. Not a clue whats what there.
http://www.saltyunderground.com/article_info.php?articles_id=43
Either way its a really cool looking shroom.
I’m going to agree - looks like rhodactis to me as well although it’s a tough call comparing the pics.
Feed it and you should know. A more aggressive feeding response will tell you its a yuma, and a slow feeding response (if one at all) will tell you its a rhodactis.
I’ll tell you what though - I think they’re gorgeous. I’ve always been a huge mushroom fan, so many colors and patterns + they’re basically bullet proof.
IME - discosoma and rhodactis have a “thinner body / cap” while ricordeas are a lot meatier in appearance. The ricordea mouths are more pronounced and a lot of the time, open showing what I call their teeth for a lack of a better term… Discosoma mushrooms are usually smooth while rhodactis are bumpy and more often than not, their mouths are very small and almost always closed.
Shrooms are becoming more popular again - looking at what they call the “jawbreaker” mushrooms… goodness they’re expensive but soooo pretty.
I agree the shrooms of late in mags like reef hobbyist are truely stunning. Good luck finding one locally. If you do, top dollar for sure. Here’s a pic of the shroom I got from A years ago, it seems to have morphed some. Maybe he will chime in to comment how it looked in his tank if he remembers it. Its a rhodactis. It does ocasionally feed, closes up looks like an onion when closed.
Sorry for the quality. Dirty tank, dirty lens, low quality tablet camera.
Scott, that looks alot like the one s I have in my tank for sure. It has the same behavior, and will feed occasionally, folding up into that onion that you described. Yuma/Rhodactis, like you said, they’re both kinda cool looking shrooms. The shrooms that get more light seem to have a larger central light blue/green, almost white center. The shaded ones stay much more purple.
I don’t remember what it looked like when I had it, it’s been so long. Beside Scott, Casey and one other person that I know who has it, they all look the same with no variation. In fact the one Casey has in his tank look just like what Rob has in the picture above. And the one other person who has it, two of them are about 3-4" wide.
I never feed it, it just grow in the tank like all other shroom. I do know that its not Ricordea Yuma, it’s Rhodactis for the one I had. I researched it when I had it.
Was messing around with blue light only photography…this was the best I could do sofar. Mainly playing with shutter speed. Trying to get a decent representation of how the lime green likes the blue lights.
