The King Kong Mushroom (Ricordea yuma / Rhodactis sp., often traded under high-end designer titles like King Kong Yuma or King Kong Bounce) is an elite, heavy-duty corallimorpharian named for its massive fully expanded size and intense, commanding coloration. Highly prized among soft coral collectors, this morph features a deep violet-purple or teal disc base blanketed in dense, oversized orange, fiery gold, or radioactive chartreuse vesicles (pseudotentacles) that swell into dramatic bubble-like formations under blue actinic lighting.
Coloration: Deep purple, indigo, or dark teal oral disc base, covered in heavy, swollen, radioactive golden-orange, mango, or chartreuse-green vesicles with a glowing cyan or neon oral mouth.
Growth Pattern: Solitary to Matting Polyps (attaches via a thick muscular foot, slowly expanding its fleshy disc to massive diameters—often 4″ to 6″+ across—before producing offspring via pedal laceration or longitudinal fission). Sold as Medium 1-3 inches.
Lighting: Low to Moderate (PAR 50–125).
Water Flow: Low to Gentle (Low, indirect current to allow the massive fleshy disc to fully inflate and expand its heavy vesicles).
Feeding: Photosynthetic; responds exceptionally well to optional target feeding with small mysis shrimp, chopped seafood, micro-plankton powders, and coral amino acids to encourage vesicle swelling and rapid disc growth.
Aggressiveness: Semi-Aggressive (lacks stinging sweeper tentacles, but secretes mild chemical mucus and can easily shade or crowd out neighboring zoanthids or small stony corals due to its massive fully expanded footprint).
Care Level: Easy to Moderate (Hardy once acclimated to stable reef parameters, though Yuma variants require careful drip acclimation to prevent stress detachment).
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