Insight into Ricordea Florida care

[Kenn]

Would love to have a little input from those of you with experience in regards to Ricordea Florida care.

I just today picked my 3 up at Marine Solutions. Some one in front of me walked out with $200 + worth of these little beauties!

Loved the shop BTW. Definitely worth the trip.

Anyway.... These are my first, so I would like to keep them alive for a little while  so any information is appreciated.

[CoralBeauties]

I use to have several rocks covered with rics and I never did anything special for them.  They flourished with just lighting and maybe some fish food fall out.  You can hand feed them with just about any type of food.  Mine would really sting the heck out of you if you would brush up against them.  Infected skin area would swell some and itch like crazy.
Jeff

[JoeAyers]

I just today picked my 3 up at Marine Solutions. Some one in front of me walked out with $200 + worth of these little beauties!

That would be me. 

From my experience, High light high flow made for smaller, fast growing tight bunches of rics. Lower light lower flow made big bushy rics that grew much slower. So I guess it depends on the look you are going for.

[rayviv]

Glad you ask that question Kenn. And I'm glad for the answers. Never been stung that I know of unless my pacemaker grounded it out. And think I'll try to get more rapid growth and then bigger growth when results pay off