Yuma Ricordea
Ricordea yuma, a mushroom. Intermediate to keep, typical PAR 50–100, low to moderate flow.
Also sold as Ricordea yuma.
A species, not a named morph. It names the animal, not one line of it.
Collector tier: rare, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 11 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Pacific ricordea, with larger, longer-stalked vesicles of varying sizes and a far wider colour range than florida, including true rainbows. Its tentacles sit in alternating rows of large and small radiating from the mouth, and the mouth itself is crowded with them.
Before you buy one
Harder to keep than florida and frequently sold freshly imported and thin. Buy settled stock that has been in someone's system for weeks. Colour will not tell you which species you are being sold, but the tentacles will: florida's are small, evenly sized and randomly placed, with a small mouth left bare. That matters because yuma carries the premium.
Keeping mushrooms
Low light and low flow, on the sand or a shaded ledge. Yuma Ricordea is intermediate 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 Yuma 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 $47 to $147 each, median $90, across 11 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $22 to $168. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 11 surveyed shops: areefcreation.com, austinaquafarms.com, coralsanonymous.com, coralscoral.com, newyorkreefaquatic.com, pacificeastaquaculture.com, and 5 more.
Easily confused with
- Florida Ricordea: Small, evenly sized vesicles placed at random, with the mouth left bare. Yuma's run in alternating rows and crowd the mouth, and yuma carries the premium.