Ricordea Mushroom propagation while relatively easy requires care and attention to detail. With a rather high price tag for a healthy specimen of Ricordea Yuma you may wish to start your foray into propagation with the less expensive Ricordea Florida. A mistake with two hundred dollar Ricordea Yuma would be a discouraging first attempt into a fascinating part of the aquaculture process. Rest assured that propagation of a Ricordea mushroom coral is not as intimidating as you may think.
I start with a few tools, a plastic cutting board, clean cloth and a fresh razor. Right
before a major coral propagation session I do a small water change and use the discarded water for my work. Before you begin soak the cutting board in a small vat of your discarded water for a few minute. Dampen a clean cloth in this water as well as the clean razor. Make sure you hands are clean, without the use of soap and saturate them with the salt water from the reef tank. Gently pick up the Ricordea mushroom coral specimen in the palm of your hand. Avoid touching it with you fingers. While still in the tank swish the coral polyp around so the coral pumps out as much water as possible, and examine the foot of the Ricordea mushroom to see how it is positioned relative to the head. Once you have done so gently slide the Ricordea mushroom coral specimen on the cutting board and prepare your razor for a clean swift cut. Your examination of the Ricordea mushroom foot was to ensure we cut the foot in half not the mouth. I find the Ricordea mushroom coral as well as other mushroom coral heal far quicker this way. Make the cut clean and fast so the tissue is not torn. Most important is the follow up after the Ricordea mushroom coral propagation. I have had the best luck with mono specific systems. In my work I propagated Ricordea Mushroom Coral only in Ricordea mushroom reef tanks.
Follow these simple directions, practiced with care and focus on the after care and you will soon have a working aquafarm facility with a beautiful garden of Ricordea Mushroom Coral.
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propagation with the less expensive Ricordea Florida. A mistake with two hundred dollar Ricordea Yuma would be a discouraging first attempt into a fascinating part of the aquaculture process. Rest assured that propagation of a Ricordea mushroom coral is not as intimidating as you may think. 
clean, without the use of soap and saturate them with the salt water from the reef tank. Gently pick up the Ricordea mushroom coral specimen in the palm of your hand. Avoid touching it with you fingers. While still in the tank swish the coral polyp around so the coral pumps out as much water as possible, and examine the foot of the Ricordea mushroom to see how it is positioned relative to the head. Once you have done so gently slide the Ricordea mushroom coral specimen on the cutting board and prepare your razor for a clean swift cut. Your examination of the Ricordea mushroom foot was to ensure we cut the foot in half not the mouth. I find the Ricordea mushroom coral as well as other mushroom coral heal far quicker this way. Make the cut clean and fast so the tissue is not torn. Most 
important is the follow up after the Ricordea mushroom coral propagation. I have had the best luck with mono specific systems. In my work I propagated Ricordea Mushroom Coral only in Ricordea mushroom reef tanks. 
