🪸🧡🔥 Orange Ricordea yuma – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium Orange Mushroom Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate Temperament: Semi-Aggressive Colour Form: Spectacular orange pigmentation featuring vibrant tangerine, warm golden-orange, and fiery orange tones across its distinctive fleshy oral disc. The surface is covered with numerous rounded, bubble-like vesicles that create an intricate three-dimensional texture. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the rich orange pigmentation becomes particularly attractive, highlighting the coral's characteristic surface structure and producing a beautiful contrast against cooler-coloured reef inhabitants. 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 – Mushroom Coral

🧬 Overview

The Orange Ricordea yuma is a spectacular mushroom coral admired for its vibrant orange pigmentation, distinctive bubble-like surface texture, and beautiful fleshy appearance. Combining warm, eye-catching colouration with the unique morphology of Ricordea corals, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

Its most distinctive feature is its rich orange pigmentation, which can display an attractive combination of tangerine, golden-orange, and deeper fiery orange tones. These warm colours complement the intricate arrangement of rounded vesicles covering the coral's oral disc, creating a beautifully textured appearance.

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, giving this species its characteristic appearance and distinguishing it from many other mushroom corals.

The vibrant orange pigmentation creates a beautiful contrast against fluorescent green, blue, purple, and yellow corals, making it an excellent choice for aquarists looking to introduce warmer colours and additional diversity into their reef displays.

As the coral settles into suitable aquarium conditions, its fleshy disc can expand, revealing the intricate arrangement of its vesicles and enhancing the visual depth of its orange pigmentation.

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

Its combination of striking colouration, distinctive morphology, and exceptional visual appeal makes this variety a highly desirable addition to premium Ricordea collections.

Selected for:

• Vibrant orange, tangerine, and golden-orange pigmentation

• Beautiful warm colouration under blue-spectrum reef lighting

• Distinctive bubble-like vesicles and fleshy oral disc

• Exceptional contrast against fluorescent green and blue corals

• 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.

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 Orange 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 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 vibrant orange pigmentation 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 orange pigmentation while encouraging healthy expansion and natural growth.

🪸🧡🔥 Orange Ricordea yuma – Frag WYSIWYG

A spectacular WYSIWYG Orange Ricordea yuma frag featuring vibrant tangerine and fiery orange pigmentation, distinctive bubble-like vesicles, and a beautifully textured fleshy oral disc. With its striking warm colouration, exceptional visual appeal, and unique morphology, this 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.