[Bobby]

Anyone Tell Me If You Can Split Ricordea. If So,how. Thanks

[Ninong]

Originally Posted by Bobby

Anyone Tell Me If You Can Split Ricordea. If So,how. Thanks

Yes, you can. I have never personally tried it but all you need to do is slice them across the center/mouth with a clean, sharp razor blade. You can cut them into two pieces or you can cut them into several pieces. Think of it as slicing a pizza.

Do this at your own risk. Personally I prefer to just let them reproduce by pedal laceration or fission.

P.S. -- Maybe I misread your question? I may be misunderstanding what you mean by "split." I'm taking it in the sense of "fragging" a coral.

[Bobby]

Thanks For The Info. But I Don't Know If I Want to Try This Or Not (my luck sucks). About How Long Will It Take For Them To Do It On Thier Own?

[Ninong]

As I said above, I haven't done it myself but I imagine it's a matter of a few weeks. The trick is to get the individual pieces to attach to a piece of substrate (rock) without blowing all over the aquarium. Some people do this by placing the cut piece in a small glass bowl with a few pieces of rock rubble and then placing the bowl in an area where it won't receive so much current that the fragment of Ricordea gets blown away.

P.S. -- I misread what you asked me. I thought you were talking about how long it would take the fragments to attach and grow into full sized specimens. Kevin has already answered your actual question. My experience is similar to Kevin's in that it usually has taken mine more than year to divide unless they were close to dividing when I got them. I have also had one multiply by pedal laceration.

[kevinpo]

Ricordia corals really vary in their time to split from a few weeks to 1 year. Lighting and water parameters have a large influence on the time to split. You can have several varieties in the same tank and some will split often and others will split once a year. The slow splitters can be helped along by cutting them into halves or quarters using a razor blade.

HTH,
Kevin
PS: It seems that the best colored ones split the slowest, at least that's my luck.