Question on mushroom

JamesHolt · 09/14/2015, 08:31 PM

I bought this one as a richordia..
Lately it has been getting rather large bubbles on it..
It had a few larger bubbles on it from the beginning, but now it seems they are taking over..
Is this normal for a richordia,, or is it a richordia??

All of the babies it has been dropping are doing the same thing..

Any ideas,, or am just concerned over nothing??

JamesHolt · 09/14/2015, 08:34 PM

This is what it looked like when I got it..

Deton8it · 09/14/2015, 10:02 PM

No that's not normal but I want one. Dibs!

Deton8it · 09/15/2015, 08:58 AM

I haven't seen one like that before. I think that will look cool next to this. I got this from Divers Den.

Deton8it · 09/15/2015, 06:35 PM

I showed that picture of when you first got it and was told it is a St Thomas Mushroom.

JamesHolt · 09/16/2015, 01:46 AM

I emailed TidalGardens and a few others to see what they say, shrooms are getting confusing......

TrenchToast · 09/16/2015, 02:51 PM

LoL! That thing got cancer yo!

Looks weird, but hey! to each their own.

JamesHolt · 09/16/2015, 05:48 PM

I heard back from TidalGardens. He said it looked like a Ricordea Yuma..
I found a picture on bareefers.org that show another one doing the same thing..
Link to their thread http://www.bareefers.org/forum/threa...room-or.18321/

TidalGardens says maybe too much light, The thread in bareefers is talking about flow issues..
I am gonna move in into a shaded spot to see what happens..

Tweaked · 09/22/2015, 08:54 AM

Hmm, I always thought the bounce mushrooms were just upset yumas or something. Almost like they figured out a way to get the animal to bubble so they could sell it like that? Thoughts??

Deton8it · 09/23/2015, 06:52 PM

Bounce Mushrooms are of the Rhodactis species.

Patwa · 09/28/2015, 11:54 AM

yep, true 'bounce' are from the genus rhodactis. A bounce by any other name is prolly someone just trying to market and increase value

The OP's shroom is most definitely r. yuma...and my god, it's pretty wacky at that. I've rarely ever seen yumas bubble, and OP's looks like it's bubbling up a storm...

Personally, I always thought the bubbling we see in bounce shrooms had something to do with an initial lack of light, thereby telling the animal it needed to try and maximize it's surface area somehow to try and collect as much PAR from its light source.

Once the bubbles are formed, they stay that way, no matter how much more light it receives later on.....

It's the same sort of response we see in bubble-tip anemones - i've read they bubble in response to a lack of light, where the bubbling of tips essentially doubles or triples the amount of light-collecting surface area in that part of the animal in those light-poor environments.

However, BTAs seem to lose their bubbles when introduced to more light.....whereas bounce shrooms seem to have them for life...

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Patwa · 09/28/2015, 12:10 PM

one of the oldest bounce shrooms I know of

owned by a reefer up here in Canada

where does the shroom end and the "bounce" begin!??!?!?

650-IS350 · 09/28/2015, 02:46 PM

I hear there is way less marketing or naming of corals there in Canada.

Patwa · 09/28/2015, 02:51 PM

emphasis on "waaaay" for the marketing part

we still like to name them though

organism · 09/28/2015, 09:43 PM

It's a Ricordia yuma with "bounce" type bubbles, very nice. If it colors up well the "bounce" thing has been hyped so much that you might get a good bit for them.

JamesHolt · 09/29/2015, 08:09 PM

Its always been that shade of red, dont think it will change..

09/14/2015, 08:31 PM	#1
JamesHolt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Milton,NC Posts: 1,104 Blog Entries: 3	Question on mushroom I bought this one as a richordia.. Lately it has been getting rather large bubbles on it.. It had a few larger bubbles on it from the beginning, but now it seems they are taking over.. Is this normal for a richordia,, or is it a richordia?? All of the babies it has been dropping are doing the same thing.. Any ideas,, or am just concerned over nothing?? __________________ John Adams: "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." Current Tank Info: 29g with 2 Engineer gobies

09/14/2015, 08:34 PM	#2
JamesHolt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Milton,NC Posts: 1,104 Blog Entries: 3	This is what it looked like when I got it.. __________________ John Adams: "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." Current Tank Info: 29g with 2 Engineer gobies

09/16/2015, 01:46 AM	#6
JamesHolt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Milton,NC Posts: 1,104 Blog Entries: 3	I emailed TidalGardens and a few others to see what they say, shrooms are getting confusing...... __________________ John Adams: "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." Current Tank Info: 29g with 2 Engineer gobies

09/16/2015, 05:48 PM	#8
JamesHolt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Milton,NC Posts: 1,104 Blog Entries: 3	I heard back from TidalGardens. He said it looked like a Ricordea Yuma.. I found a picture on bareefers.org that show another one doing the same thing.. Link to their thread http://www.bareefers.org/forum/threa...room-or.18321/ TidalGardens says maybe too much light, The thread in bareefers is talking about flow issues.. I am gonna move in into a shaded spot to see what happens.. __________________ John Adams: "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." Current Tank Info: 29g with 2 Engineer gobies

09/22/2015, 08:54 AM	#9
Tweaked FUP&A Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Madison, CT Posts: 7,722	Hmm, I always thought the bounce mushrooms were just upset yumas or something. Almost like they figured out a way to get the animal to bubble so they could sell it like that? Thoughts?? __________________ DSA 105 Pro, Cebu Sun-Radiums-M80 Ballasts, 4 T5's, XHO LEDs. Through Wall 55g Sump, 10g Frag and 29g Display attached, Vertex V6, 3 mp40's, Gyre, 2 mp10's, GFO, Carbon, Pellets - 10g Bar Tank

09/14/2015, 10:02 PM	#3
Deton8it Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Cabot Arkansas Posts: 134	No that's not normal but I want one. Dibs!

09/15/2015, 08:58 AM	#4
Deton8it Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Cabot Arkansas Posts: 134	I haven't seen one like that before. I think that will look cool next to this. I got this from Divers Den.

09/15/2015, 06:35 PM	#5
Deton8it Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Cabot Arkansas Posts: 134	I showed that picture of when you first got it and was told it is a St Thomas Mushroom.

09/16/2015, 02:51 PM	#7
TrenchToast Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Henrico County, Virginia Posts: 97	LoL! That thing got cancer yo! Looks weird, but hey! to each their own.

09/23/2015, 06:52 PM	#10
Deton8it Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Cabot Arkansas Posts: 134	Bounce Mushrooms are of the Rhodactis species.

09/28/2015, 11:54 AM	#11
Patwa if anyone asks, it's $10 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 589	yep, true 'bounce' are from the genus rhodactis. A bounce by any other name is prolly someone just trying to market and increase value The OP's shroom is most definitely r. yuma...and my god, it's pretty wacky at that. I've rarely ever seen yumas bubble, and OP's looks like it's bubbling up a storm... Personally, I always thought the bubbling we see in bounce shrooms had something to do with an initial lack of light, thereby telling the animal it needed to try and maximize it's surface area somehow to try and collect as much PAR from its light source. Once the bubbles are formed, they stay that way, no matter how much more light it receives later on..... It's the same sort of response we see in bubble-tip anemones - i've read they bubble in response to a lack of light, where the bubbling of tips essentially doubles or triples the amount of light-collecting surface area in that part of the animal in those light-poor environments. However, BTAs seem to lose their bubbles when introduced to more light.....whereas bounce shrooms seem to have them for life... z __________________ 90G Cube + 30g Sump/Fuge Dual Kessil A350W LED ● Deltec AP701 DIY clone (modded) w/ Eheim 1262 needlewheel ● Panworld 100PX-X Closed Loop + OM 4-Way w/ 4 eductors

09/28/2015, 12:10 PM	#12
Patwa if anyone asks, it's $10 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 589	one of the oldest bounce shrooms I know of owned by a reefer up here in Canada where does the shroom end and the "bounce" begin!??!?!? __________________ 90G Cube + 30g Sump/Fuge Dual Kessil A350W LED ● Deltec AP701 DIY clone (modded) w/ Eheim 1262 needlewheel ● Panworld 100PX-X Closed Loop + OM 4-Way w/ 4 eductors

09/28/2015, 02:46 PM	#13
650-IS350 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Bay Area Posts: 14,555	I hear there is way less marketing or naming of corals there in Canada. __________________ * RETIRED FROM REEFING * Just enjoying the box of water from afar

09/28/2015, 02:51 PM	#14
Patwa if anyone asks, it's $10 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in a van down by the river Posts: 589	emphasis on "waaaay" for the marketing part we still like to name them though __________________ 90G Cube + 30g Sump/Fuge Dual Kessil A350W LED ● Deltec AP701 DIY clone (modded) w/ Eheim 1262 needlewheel ● Panworld 100PX-X Closed Loop + OM 4-Way w/ 4 eductors

09/28/2015, 09:43 PM	#15
organism code monkey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: south bay Posts: 6,223	It's a Ricordia yuma with "bounce" type bubbles, very nice. If it colors up well the "bounce" thing has been hyped so much that you might get a good bit for them. __________________ I don't always grow frags... but when I do, I prefer Dos Acros

09/29/2015, 08:09 PM	#16
JamesHolt Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Milton,NC Posts: 1,104 Blog Entries: 3	Its always been that shade of red, dont think it will change.. __________________ John Adams: "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." Current Tank Info: 29g with 2 Engineer gobies