WASH your hands! Since palytoxin needs to enter your body in some way for you to become sick, a simple hand wash will solve most of your problems when doing general tank maintenance and placing corals.Keep in mind, the glove likely won’t stop a full-on impaling, but the extra layer of tough skin can help with incidental scrapings.Latex are fine, or the reusable plastic gloves made for aquariums. If you have an open wound on your hand, it may be necessary to wear gloves.This will not only help protect you, your coral will appreciate it, as well! When removing your coral, try to handle it by the edges of the rock, or better yet, the bottom.Since they have been known to lose this toxin in captivity, and even cyanobacteria and dinoflagellates have been discovered to contain it it is best for the home marine aquarist to proceed with caution when handling any of their animals or rocks. *** Handled incorrectly, any coral can be dangerous! Special care must be taken with the zoanthidae family in particular, as many of them contain palytoxin. High – Forget the sway, this coral says HIT ME and means it! That said, you can blow the skin off any coral with too much flow in one spot, though that probably won’t happen with this one if you are using diverted flow powerheads.Think waving hands at a concert or football game…a medium tempo back and forth action. Moderate – This one will do better if you can see it moving a bit, a gentle sway.However, take care not to give this one too much – you may blow it right off of the rock! Low – This does not mean NO flow, although it may be able to take that.Below is our best representation of what we mean by our given flow levels, comparative to our Current-USA eFlux Wave and Flow Pumps. This can be a tough one to gauge as well, after all, what is meant by high flow? Largely comparative, it is difficult to say what high flow means in one tank vs. Remember, that piece has had to deal with a week of cloudy or snowy weather before in our greenhouse! Flow Requirements * If the coral looks pale or hasn’t extended fully in the first week or so, this is probably because it is receiving too much light it is unlikely to be not enough if you have a light meant for corals. While we cannot say how high or how low you should place it in your tank not knowing what lights you have, we can give you a range based on our own Radion G5 XR Pros. * Our corals are grown in natural sunlight and have been acclimated to Radion lighting many can take extreme and even sudden adjustments. For a more all in one choice for coral feeding, we recommend a broadcast feed of Reef Nutrition TDO Chroma Boost™ A. Ricordea do not have an exceptionally large mouths, so we recommend feeding no larger than TDO Chroma Boost™ Medium, and only as adults. While a coral will accept a granule smaller than its polyp size, it can’t accept anything larger, and can even spend more energy than it gains trying to digest a piece too big. All TRF corals are broadcast fed Reef Nutrition TDO Chroma Boost™. * While no direct feeding is required if you have good lighting and fish that are being fed, corals grow and look much better when they’re being fed regularly. If you want something that won’t “take over your tank”, this one will be it! If it gets too high, it will probably turn brown and eventually die. Expert – Time to break out the phosphate test if it gets too low, this one might throw off all of its skin.While they will still be resistant to mild swings, a bit more care should be taken to make sure your tank is remaining somewhat stable. Moderate – You should probably be well aware what your current calcium and alkalinity levels are to choose this level.Just don’t shock them too hard, and they should do well. Easy – While not bulletproof, it’s close! This one won’t mind terribly if your water parameters are a bit off, or if nitrates are a bit high (less than 50).
These corals can live through almost anything you can throw at them, and in many cases already have! Bulletproof – To be deemed “bulletproof” at TRF, we have to know that even the newest of newbies couldn’t mess this one up! Therefore, it cannot be a hard coral, (sadly, as some of our hard corals have earned this title) and it must have already been an easy to keep species to begin with.When they really get going, the adults can span almost two inches across! Care Levels *
Although they are slower growing than other genus of mushrooms, they’re quick to make up for it with amazing coloration.
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