🪸💚💛🧡 Green & Yellow Ricordea yuma with Orange Mouth – Frag (Similar to Photo)

Premium Multicolour Mushroom Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate Temperament: Semi-Aggressive Colour Form: Spectacular multicoloured pigmentation combining vibrant fluorescent green, brilliant yellow, and a striking orange central mouth. Its fleshy oral disc is covered with numerous rounded, bubble-like vesicles, creating an intricate three-dimensional texture. The beautiful contrast between its green and yellow pigmentation and vivid orange centre produces an extraordinary tropical colour combination. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the fluorescent tones become particularly captivating, making this Ricordea yuma 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: Discosomatidae 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 & Yellow Ricordea yuma with Orange Mouth is an extraordinary mushroom coral admired for its spectacular multicoloured pigmentation, distinctive bubble-like surface texture, and beautiful fleshy appearance. Combining fluorescent green and yellow tones with a contrasting orange central mouth, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

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

The brilliant green and yellow pigmentation provides an eye-catching foundation, while the orange central mouth creates a striking focal point that enhances the coral's intricate radial structure.

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 covered with numerous rounded vesicles, including around the central mouth, creating the characteristic textured appearance that makes Ricordea yuma particularly desirable among mushroom coral collectors.

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 fluorescent green, yellow, and orange pigmentation.

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

Its combination of exceptional fluorescence, unusual colour contrast, and distinctive morphology makes this variety a particularly attractive addition to premium Ricordea collections.

Selected for:

• Vibrant fluorescent green pigmentation

• Brilliant yellow tones and exceptional colour contrast

• Striking orange central mouth

• Distinctive bubble-like vesicles and fleshy oral disc

• Premium multicolour collector frag – Similar to Photo

🍽️ 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.

This species can be sensitive to sudden environmental changes, particularly rapid increases in lighting intensity, excessive water flow, and fluctuations in salinity.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Green & Yellow Ricordea yuma with Orange 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 yuma, 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 yellow pigmentation and contrasting orange 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 & Yellow Ricordea yuma with Orange Mouth – Frag (Similar to Photo)

An extraordinary Green & Yellow Ricordea yuma with Orange Mouth frag featuring vibrant fluorescent green and yellow pigmentation, a striking orange central mouth, and beautifully textured bubble-like vesicles. With its spectacular three-colour combination, exceptional fluorescence, and distinctive fleshy appearance, 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.