Golden Safari Yuma

About this coral

Golden Safari Yuma is a named color morph sold in our Mushrooms category. The 'Yuma' name in the title places it in the Ricordea yuma group of mushroom corals, which are corallimorphs: soft, fleshy polyps that do not build a hard skeleton the way LPS or SPS corals do. The care notes below are general guidance for Ricordea yuma, not documentation specific to this morph. Mushrooms are often described as easy beginner corals with low requirements. Ricordea yuma, however, is considered more sensitive than Ricordea florida, so a stable, established reef aquarium is the best home for it.

Features:

• Photosynthetic: it can meet its energy needs from the aquarium lighting
• Soft-bodied corallimorph with no calcium skeleton
• Prefers gentle water movement. Too much flow can make it retract or come loose from the rock
• Needs enough flow to stop detritus from settling on the polyp
• Grows more slowly than many other mushrooms but divides over time, so new polyps can be moved onto frag plugs or rubble
• Amino acid supplements are reported to help growth and coloration
• Ricordea yuma is semi-aggressive, so give it space away from neighboring corals
• Much of the Ricordea yuma in the hobby is aquacultured, though the species occurs naturally in the Indo-Pacific

Specifications:

• Group: Ricordea yuma mushroom (corallimorph)
• Care level: Moderate
• Temperament: Semi-aggressive, needs space
• Light: Moderate
• Water flow: Low to moderate
• Placement: Lower areas of the tank, protected from strong flow
• Growth rate: Moderate
• Water stability: Keep calcium, alkalinity, magnesium, salinity and temperature stable
• Suggested alkalinity: About 7.7 dKH
• Suggested calcium: About 450 ppm
• Suggested magnesium: About 1450 ppm