🪸🔥🧡 Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma – Frag WYSIWYG

Ultra Premium Bounce Mushroom Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate Temperament: Semi-Aggressive Colour Form: Spectacular orange pigmentation featuring vibrant tangerine, fiery orange, and warm reddish-orange tones across its distinctive fleshy oral disc. Its most remarkable characteristic is the development of enlarged, bubble-like vesicles that create the highly desirable Bounce appearance. These pronounced vesicles produce an extraordinary three-dimensional texture, while the intense orange colouration creates a striking visual effect. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the vibrant pigmentation and unusual bubble formations make this Ricordea yuma a spectacular centrepiece for premium mushroom coral collections. Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.5, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026 Family: Discosomatidae Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 50–150) Water Flow: Low to Moderate, Indirect Placement: Lower to Middle Reef Type: WYSIWYG – Frag Classification: Corallimorpharian – Bounce Mushroom Coral

🧬 Overview

The Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma is an extraordinary collector mushroom coral admired for its spectacular orange pigmentation, distinctive enlarged vesicles, and remarkable three-dimensional appearance. Combining fiery colouration with the unusual Bounce morphology, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

Its most distinctive feature is the presence of pronounced, inflated vesicles that rise above the surface of its fleshy oral disc, creating the highly sought-after Bounce effect. These bubble-like formations add exceptional depth, texture, and visual complexity, distinguishing this variety from more conventional Ricordea yuma specimens.

The intense orange pigmentation creates a beautiful combination of warm tangerine, fiery orange, and deeper reddish-orange tones, giving the coral its distinctive Orange Devil identity.

Unlike traditional stony corals, Ricordea yuma belongs to the corallimorpharians, a group of soft-bodied marine invertebrates that do not produce a hard calcium carbonate skeleton.

Its fleshy oral disc is naturally covered with numerous rounded vesicles, including around the central mouth. In Bounce varieties, some of these vesicles develop into noticeably enlarged formations, producing an especially unusual and attractive appearance.

The combination of vivid orange pigmentation and prominent bubble-like structures creates a striking contrast against fluorescent green, blue, purple, and yellow corals, making this specimen an exceptional focal point within carefully curated reef displays.

Under appropriate lighting, gentle water movement, and stable water chemistry, the Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma can display impressive tissue expansion, highlighting its extraordinary vesicle formations and beautiful pigmentation.

With its distinctive morphology, vibrant colouration, and exceptional collector appeal, this premium WYSIWYG specimen is a remarkable addition to exclusive mushroom coral collections.

Selected for:

• Spectacular fiery orange and tangerine pigmentation

• Distinctive enlarged Bounce vesicles

• Extraordinary three-dimensional surface texture

• Exceptional contrast under blue-spectrum reef lighting

• Ultra-premium WYSIWYG collector frag

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Ricordea yuma can benefit from occasional supplementary feeding with small meaty foods and fine suspended particles, supporting healthy tissue development, vibrant pigmentation, and natural growth.

Recommended feeding:

• Finely chopped Mysis shrimp

• Small zooplankton-based coral foods

• Reef Roids and fine powdered coral foods in small quantities

• Naturally occurring plankton and suspended organic particles

Gentle target feeding once or twice per week can be beneficial if the coral accepts food, although supplementary feeding is not essential in well-established aquariums with adequate lighting and nutrient availability.

Avoid overfeeding, as excessive food accumulation may negatively affect water quality.

Unlike stony corals, Ricordea yuma does not produce a calcium carbonate skeleton, making it less dependent on elevated calcium and alkalinity concentrations. Nevertheless, stable reef parameters remain important for long-term health.

Bounce specimens may display changes in vesicle size and inflation depending on environmental conditions. Stable lighting, gentle water movement, and consistent water chemistry are important for maintaining healthy tissue and natural expansion.

Avoid sudden changes in lighting intensity, temperature, salinity, or water flow, as Ricordea yuma can be sensitive to rapid environmental fluctuations.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma in the lower to middle regions of an established reef aquarium, where it receives low to moderate lighting and gentle, indirect water movement.

A lighting range of approximately 50–150 PAR is a suitable starting point, with gradual acclimatisation recommended when introducing the coral into a new aquarium.

Low to moderate flow is particularly important for Bounce Ricordea varieties, allowing their fleshy oral discs and enlarged vesicles to expand naturally without excessive physical stress.

Avoid placing the coral directly in front of wavemakers or strong water currents, as excessive flow may cause tissue contraction, interfere with natural expansion, or result in the specimen detaching from its substrate.

Its distinctive appearance makes it particularly suitable for isolated rock islands, dedicated mushroom gardens, and premium collector displays, where its vibrant orange pigmentation and enlarged Bounce vesicles can be fully appreciated.

Allow sufficient space between the Ricordea and neighbouring corals to avoid direct contact and potential competition.

Gradual light acclimatisation is particularly important when introducing the specimen into aquariums with powerful LED lighting systems, as excessive illumination may cause tissue stress.

Stable water chemistry, appropriate lighting, and gentle water movement will help maintain its spectacular orange pigmentation while supporting healthy tissue expansion and the natural appearance of its distinctive Bounce formations.

🪸🔥🧡 Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma – Frag WYSIWYG

An extraordinary WYSIWYG Bounce Orange Devil Ricordea yuma frag featuring spectacular fiery orange pigmentation, pronounced bubble-like Bounce vesicles, and an exceptionally textured fleshy oral disc. With its remarkable three-dimensional morphology, vibrant tangerine colouration, and outstanding collector appeal, this ultra-premium mushroom coral is a stunning addition to established reef aquariums and exclusive Ricordea collections.

WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get: The coral shown in the product photograph is the exact specimen you will receive.