Success with hot pink Yumas

[Whalehead9]

I'm looking for anyone with long term success with Hot pink Yumas to help me before I buy one. I've got orange and blueish, and want pink bad, but here that they are tough to keep. Advice needed.

[currentking]

Make sure the lfs has had it for at least a week before you buy. They are very tempermental. Once you find a good home for it in oyur tank NEVER MOVE IT. I had a beautifull one that was doing great until I moved it to make room for new coral. I didnt move it very far but none the less it shriveled up on me.

[rduong89]

my pink yumas are doing GREAT!! They even multiplied =)

[Whalehead9]

rduong, what kind of lighting are you running right now? I have heard that they will melt under MH lighting. Any other info would be great

[currentking]

they need to be kept in the shade

[Big load]

You need to watch them closely when you first place them and move if they show signs of being unhappy. Some are collected in shady over hanging areas and other are collected from the reef flats right out in the open where they cook in the sun all day long I have talked to a few divers in Fla. and that seems to be the story they all tell,since most people don't know exactly where there specimen was collected. The main things would be to have good water quality,good acclimation techniques,and pick a healthy specimen from the start.I have seen people go to LFS and try to buy the stuff that does not look so good for a cheaper price and then come back wondering why they had problems with it.

[rduong89]

mines under 250 MH they are pretty much under shaded areas.....but before they were expose out in the light and their polyp grew big.

[Big load]

Are they not expanding as big as they did when they were in full light? Are they still multiplying in the shaded areas or has that slowed down since you moved them?

[rduong89]

before they got pretty big, but wheni moved it they were pretty small. Now in the shaded areas they are back to the big size. i have 2 frags and each of them now have 3 polyps.

[happyface888]

My bro has had one for 7yrs and man its still the size of a nickle. It has not split or anything. His system is up to par, running a 250w mh w 2x24t5s and a calcium reactor. That thing never grows, any suggestions on how to make that thing start growing and spliting besides butchering it? Its out in the open near the top would it be getting tooo much light?

[chrisdamage]

Here is my 4" Neon Pink Ricordea yuma. I've had it for about 3 months now. It was wild caught. The guy I bought it from had it about 4" from the surface directly under a 250W MH... I now have it about 10" from the surface under 150W MH and it is opened up just fine.
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/chrisdamage666/DSCN0064.jpg

Another picture of it:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/chrisdamage666/DSCN0276.jpg

A 3" yellow yuma:
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/chrisdamage666/DSCN0272.jpg

An NC6 I used to have set-up for Ricordea... bad picture
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x86/chrisdamage666/DSCN0286.jpg

[chrisdamage]

woops... double post

[Big load]

nice collection are you any where near sealife inc. in tavernier fla. he has great prices on hand collected rics. and every thing he sells check out his site maybe your close enough for a ROAD TRIP!!!

[chrisdamage]

whoops...

[chrisdamage]

I can get better than they get in... I know a few people ;-)

[Big load]

nice THAT FIRST YELLOW RIC IS THAT GROWTH TOWARD THE BOTTOM OF THE ROCK THE CORAL GROWTH?

[Lance M.]

That growth bellow the yellow ric is a sponge.

Very nice Chris.

[chrisdamage]

no, thats a neon highlighter yellow sponge that sprung off the rock

[Azurel]

Yumas are from the Pacific and the pinks from everything I can find and have talked to with LFS's wholesalers that the pinks come from slightly deeper water. If you get one start it out in the shade and keep it there till it settles and starts to thrive. I have been through 7 of them over the last 3 years and don't have a single one to show for all the money spent. I think the one biggest issue with the hot pink Yumas is photo acclimation and getting a healthy specimen in the first place. The 2 Yumas I have right now were both aqua-cultured and of the rarer type and I still acclimated them to brighter light over a 3 month period. They are in more light then they were at first but still not in direct light and seem to be really thriving..... The first bad sign of a yuma that you do not want to buy is a gaping mouth and the absents of the acrospheres around the oral cone and adjacent area......

[chrisdamage]

^agreed... I just bought a pink/orange yuma about a month ago and he isn't doing too good because right now because of photo-sock... gaping mouth every now and then, etc... I tink he will pull through tough.

[The Beaut]

The key is patience. Take your time acclimating them. Start them in the shade and when you see them reaching for light, move them a little closer. This can take weeks but when you pay in excess of $100 for a yuma, a little time is nothing. I have had great success with all kinds of yumas and had my pink one for about 2 years now.

[chrisdamage]

I set him in the shade at the bottom of my tank but coming from extremely weak PC lighting to a 150 MH is quite the jump.

[SNAKEMANVET]

Chrisdamage Nice looking rics. Are you running the stock 18 watt pc in the nc6.

[amazonman]

Beautiful shots ...... chrisdamage, mind if i ask what type of camera setup are you using?

[chrisdamage]

aha... I have a simple Nikon S51 Point-N-Shoot

my gf is a photographer so I got some lessons on macro photography... that always helps haha

[amazonman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11893376#post11893376 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisdamage
aha... I have a simple Nikon S51 Point-N-Shoot

my gf is a photographer so I got some lessons on macro photography... that always helps haha


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