🪸💚🩷💛 Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth – Frag (Similar to Photo)

Premium Multicolour Mushroom Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Easy to Moderate Temperament: Semi-Aggressive Colour Form: Spectacular multicoloured pigmentation combining vibrant fluorescent green, beautiful pink highlights, and a striking yellow central mouth. Its fleshy oral disc is covered with numerous rounded, bubble-like vesicles, creating an intricate three-dimensional texture. The contrast between the bright green base, delicate pink pigmentation, and vivid yellow centre produces an extraordinary tropical colour combination. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the fluorescent tones become particularly captivating, making this Ricordea florida a stunning addition to established reef aquariums. Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.5, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026 Family: Ricordeidae Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 50–150) Water Flow: Low to Moderate, Indirect Placement: Lower to Middle Reef Type: Frag – Similar to Photo Classification: Corallimorpharian – Mushroom Coral

🧬 Overview

The Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth is an extraordinary mushroom coral admired for its spectacular multicoloured pigmentation, distinctive bubble-like surface texture, and beautiful fleshy appearance. Combining vibrant green and pink tones with a contrasting yellow central mouth, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

Its most distinctive feature is the remarkable combination of three attractive colours, creating a stunning tropical appearance that immediately draws attention within a reef display.

The fluorescent green pigmentation provides a brilliant foundation, while the delicate pink highlights add depth and visual complexity. At the centre, the vivid yellow mouth creates an eye-catching focal point that enhances the coral's natural radial structure.

Unlike traditional stony corals, Ricordea florida 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 covered with numerous rounded vesicles, giving this species its characteristic textured appearance. Unlike Ricordea yuma, which typically displays vesicles extending towards the mouth, Ricordea florida generally has a smoother area immediately surrounding its central mouth.

As the coral settles into suitable aquarium conditions, its oral disc can expand, revealing the intricate arrangement of its vesicles and enhancing the contrast between its green, pink, and yellow pigmentation.

Under appropriate lighting, gentle water movement, and stable water chemistry, the Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth can become a spectacular focal point within mushroom gardens, mixed reef aquariums, and carefully curated collector displays.

Its combination of exceptional fluorescence, beautiful colour contrast, and distinctive morphology makes this variety a highly desirable addition to premium Ricordea collections.

Selected for:

• Vibrant fluorescent green pigmentation

• Beautiful pink highlights and contrasting colour patterns

• Striking yellow central mouth

• Distinctive bubble-like vesicles and fleshy oral disc

• Premium multicolour collector frag – Similar to Photo

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Ricordea florida 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 florida 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.

This species is generally considered relatively hardy, but sudden environmental changes, particularly rapid increases in lighting intensity, excessive water flow, and fluctuations in salinity, should be avoided.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth 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 Ricordea florida, allowing its fleshy oral disc to expand naturally without excessive physical stress.

Avoid placing the coral directly in front of wavemakers or strong water currents, as excessive flow may prevent full expansion or cause the specimen to detach from its substrate.

Its distinctive appearance makes it particularly suitable for mushroom gardens, isolated rock islands, and lower reef displays, where its fluorescent green and pink pigmentation and contrasting yellow mouth can be fully appreciated.

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

Stable water chemistry, appropriate lighting, and gentle water movement will help maintain its beautiful multicoloured pigmentation while encouraging healthy expansion and natural growth.

🪸💚🩷💛 Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth – Frag (Similar to Photo)

An extraordinary Green & Pink Ricordea florida with Yellow Mouth frag featuring vibrant fluorescent green pigmentation, beautiful pink highlights, a striking yellow central mouth, and distinctive bubble-like vesicles. With its spectacular three-colour combination, exceptional visual appeal, and intricate fleshy structure, this premium mushroom coral is a stunning addition to established reef aquariums and exclusive Ricordea collections.

Please note: The photograph is for reference purposes only. The frag you receive will be similar to the one pictured, although slight variations in size, shape, vesicle distribution, colour intensity, and pigmentation patterns may occur.