Florida Ricordea
Ricordea florida, a mushroom. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 50–100, low to moderate flow.
Also sold as Ric, Ricordea florida.
A species, not a named morph. It names the animal, not one line of it.
Collector tier: common, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 13 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Caribbean corallimorph, a disc of small bubble-tipped vesicles of fairly even size scattered without much pattern, with a small mouth sitting bare in the middle. Usually one to two inches across, with mature polyps reaching two to three before they split.
Before you buy one
The vesicles decide it, not the colour and not the price. Florida's are evenly sized and randomly placed and leave the mouth clear; yuma's run in alternating rows of large and small radiating outward and crowd right up to the mouth. Since yuma carries the premium, that is the sentence worth knowing before you pay one. Ricordea florida is also a harvested animal rather than a farmed one, taken under Florida marine life licences, so a piece is cut from wild rock and the base is where to look for damage.
Keeping mushrooms
Low light and low flow, on the sand or a shaded ledge. Florida Ricordea is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 50–100 in low to moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
What Florida Ricordea goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced each and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One animal. These corals are single polyps and are never sold in parts. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $35 to $75 each, median $55, across 13 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $29 to $189. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 13 surveyed shops: austinaquafarms.com, calicoralconnect.com, coralsanonymous.com, deepreef.net, holygrailcorals.com, mattscorals.com, and 7 more.
Easily confused with
- Yuma Ricordea: Vesicles of varying sizes in alternating rows of large and small, crowding right up to the mouth. Florida's are even, scattered, and leave the mouth bare.