mrnewberry
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I snapped a couple of blurry pics of in2deep's club plate corals at a club meeting this week. A lot of us have the babies in our tanks. Once they are free from the mother they expand quite nicely.
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Here is a picture of the my club plates when I first put them in my tank:
After they had relaxed a couple of days:
After they had relaxed a couple of days:
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They look like mushroom corals to me, they appear to have a foot and everything, on the big plate. Strange that they go back to 'normal' after they break off lol
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They are attatched to the mother's dead skeleton by a hard coral stalk.
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They're not called a "fungia" for nothing! Mushroom coral is the common name.
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A photo from today.
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I am confused.
I thought that Plates do not reproduce in the home aquarium and cannot be fragged so you have to get them from the ocean.
How do you have so many?
I thought that Plates do not reproduce in the home aquarium and cannot be fragged so you have to get them from the ocean.
How do you have so many?
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They do reproduce I have heard of people purposely killing there plates to reproduce they turn them upside down and because they are stressed and struggling they will reproduce in a last ditch effort to keep there genes going I had a guy near me selling his plate coral colony for 150 I was tempted
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Plate corals take care of themselves. Fungia will send out pups when stressed. Cycloseris i guess would be the same as fungia since they are so close to each other. Diaseris will self frag even if not stressed. Lithopyllom looks much like diaseris but i do not know if it self frags.
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The new baby plates are called anthocauli. It's a polyp that buds off asexually. If you every have a plate coral die, don't throw away the skeleton.
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I had the same thing happen to a frogspawn. Was doing good for a few weeks and then out of nowhere it begins to recede and die. I was to busy (ok, lazy) to take it out of the frag tank and basically forgot about if for about a week. One night when the actinics were on, I can see glowing come from the remains. Closer inspectionand I can see new baby polyps starting grow all over the thing. And now the thing is better than when I bought it. I can't you tell how close I came to tossing what was left after it "died". Glad I didn't.
Now I usually leave things in the tank after they die for a week to see what happens.
Now I usually leave things in the tank after they die for a week to see what happens.
bpulmano
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In all seriousness, what do you like about plates? I've never had one, but I'm not sure why people have them. I like acan, euphyllia, chalice, scoly, brains, but plates have never appealed to me. Don't get it.
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Super cool
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I am not an expert on the subject, but we used pliers like the type to cut wires or something similar. I feed mine every couple of days if they are looking ready to feed when I feed everything else.
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The common ones like in the Pics above are not sought after.
Believe me if you saw sweet Plates you would want them.
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