well as the tital say i am a new coral keeper and i have some questions, i have two ricordias one orange and blue and one green that is in the process of splitting. my questions are how often do they split and is there a way to make them split and if i want to sell or trasfer them to a different tank how do i go about doing this, also what kind of corals can i grow under my light its a auaticlife t5 ho http://www.marinedepot.com/AquaticL...xtures-AquaticLife-AK01138-FILTFIT54U-vi.html
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What size is the tank that the light linked to is on?
And, which version of that light do you have (bulb length / wattage)?
Some rics will split quickly, while others will continuously grow additional mouths without actually splitting into multiple individuals. Some people feed them small meaty foods to encourage them to grow and split, although I've never wanted them to split any faster than they already do for me (which isn't particularly fast). A few that I've had in good current have "walked" across the rockwork and glass, tearing off little pieces of their base that grew into new rics. When they would do this, I could count on 2 - 3 new rics a week (although they certainly start out quite small). This has mostly happened with the R. yuma variety and not so much with the R. florida kind.
I've read of people taking a sharp razor blade and cutting a ric in half (especially if it had multiple mouths -- leaving a mouth for each half), but I haven't tried it myself (again, not in a hurry to have more of them). Some places I've seen say to just cut all the way through, others suggest only cutting it enough to encourage it to split. In the latter case, I've read of people complaining that too often the ric just heals back up instead of actually splitting for them.
And, which version of that light do you have (bulb length / wattage)?
Some rics will split quickly, while others will continuously grow additional mouths without actually splitting into multiple individuals. Some people feed them small meaty foods to encourage them to grow and split, although I've never wanted them to split any faster than they already do for me (which isn't particularly fast). A few that I've had in good current have "walked" across the rockwork and glass, tearing off little pieces of their base that grew into new rics. When they would do this, I could count on 2 - 3 new rics a week (although they certainly start out quite small). This has mostly happened with the R. yuma variety and not so much with the R. florida kind.
I've read of people taking a sharp razor blade and cutting a ric in half (especially if it had multiple mouths -- leaving a mouth for each half), but I haven't tried it myself (again, not in a hurry to have more of them). Some places I've seen say to just cut all the way through, others suggest only cutting it enough to encourage it to split. In the latter case, I've read of people complaining that too often the ric just heals back up instead of actually splitting for them.
sry i forgot to post that info the tank is a 29g these are the lights 420/460nm and 10,000K lamps. if you could explain what the 420/460nm means that would be great, and im really just looking to frag them to trasfer to a different tank im gonna start a 7.5g rimless nano reef also how do i get them off the rocks?
420/460 is the nanometer wavelength of the light. 420 is more of a purple, almost black light color, and 460 is more of a superman blue type of color. They are helpful lights for corals as well as your viewing pleasure (balance out the 10k white light and make colors in coral "pop" out more).