🪸💚☢️ Toxic Green Ricordea yuma – Frag (Similar to Photo)

Premium Fluorescent Mushroom Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Easy to Moderate Temperament: Semi-Aggressive Colour Form: Spectacular toxic green pigmentation featuring intense fluorescent lime-green, neon green, and electric chartreuse tones. Its fleshy oral disc is covered with numerous rounded, bubble-like vesicles that create a distinctive three-dimensional texture. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the vibrant green fluorescence becomes particularly striking, producing an extraordinary glowing appearance that makes this Ricordea yuma a standout addition to any reef aquarium. 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 Toxic Green Ricordea yuma is an extraordinary mushroom coral admired for its intensely fluorescent green pigmentation, distinctive bubble-like surface texture, and beautiful fleshy appearance. Combining spectacular colouration with the unique morphology of Ricordea corals, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

Its most distinctive feature is its brilliant toxic green fluorescence, which creates a remarkable glowing effect under blue-spectrum reef lighting. The combination of neon green pigmentation and densely arranged vesicles produces an exceptionally vibrant and textured appearance.

Unlike traditional stony corals, Ricordea yuma belongs to the corallimorpharians, a group of soft-bodied marine invertebrates without 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.

The vibrant green pigmentation creates a beautiful contrast against orange, red, purple, and blue corals, making it an excellent choice for aquarists looking to introduce intense fluorescence into their reef displays.

As the coral settles into suitable aquarium conditions, its fleshy disc can expand, displaying the intricate arrangement of its vesicles and revealing the full intensity of its fluorescent pigmentation.

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

Its combination of extraordinary fluorescence, distinctive morphology, and exceptional visual appeal makes this variety a highly desirable addition to premium mushroom coral collections.

Selected for:

• Intense toxic green and neon lime fluorescence

• Spectacular glowing appearance under blue-spectrum lighting

• Distinctive bubble-like vesicles and fleshy oral disc

• Beautiful contrast against other colourful mushroom corals

• Premium 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, 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 more sensitive to sudden environmental changes than other commonly kept mushroom corals, particularly rapid increases in lighting intensity, excessive water flow, and fluctuations in salinity.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Toxic Green 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 green fluorescence 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 extraordinary toxic green pigmentation while encouraging healthy expansion and natural growth.

Eastwood Aquarium

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🪸💚☢️ Toxic Green Ricordea yuma – Frag (Similar to Photo)

An extraordinary Toxic Green Ricordea yuma frag featuring intense neon green fluorescence, beautiful bubble-like vesicles, and a distinctive fleshy appearance. With its spectacular glowing pigmentation, intricate surface texture, and exceptional visual appeal, 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, and colouration may occur.