Green fungia plate coral rant

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I used to think they were awesome and beautiful. Now however they are annoying. I started off with one and then a friend needed me to watch their mother colony. Well the babies got bigger and popped off leaving me with 11+ and new ones sprouting. Got some sold but still left with a ton. Fast forward a few months an the babies are getting huge taking up all the space on my sandbed. Well one of the babies decided to get cute and turn into a mother colony. It had 3 lovely babies growing quite well. Then one of the babies thought it would out do the mother and became a mini colony on top of the other and it now has 3+ babies sprouting on it. Arg!!!!! Ok rant over.

Anyone else ever have this happen?
 
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Here is the main mother colony
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Some single polyps
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The small plate in the middle is the fist colony before the other plate decided to go colony to. Have to get a better pic of the double colony when I get home.
 
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Pretty cool as said many lcs will buy them from you. Granted not for as much then selling them yourself. Sounds like it could be a factory, like my rainbow anemone keeps dividing.
 
Does the mother colony remain alive? I wonder if certain varieties of fungia are prone to be this prolific or if there is something in your water that triggers it to happen.
 
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I'll buy it from you. :) I love this type stuff!
 
i have the same thing. :) our little Stick we bought from the LFS has about 2 smallllll babies on it. Now the stick doesn't stop Sprouting them ! its awesome. we raised about 3 full grown ones so far. Gave them to LFS for safe keeping.
 
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The mother colony does keep producing new babies when the older babies fall off. As soon as a mature polyp fall off a new one is starting to grown in it's place.

Rev I wish I knew how to ship. I would ship them in a heart beat, but unfortunatly I don't know how and can only sell them to people that can pick up local :(
 
That is the kenya tree of plate corals. Its survival wiring is out of whack. To bad that it was not one of those designer colored plates.
 
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Tab yeah this colony is crazy. Rabbit reproduce crazy. If I had space for them I wouldn't mind but they are getting so big and starting to sting my lobo :(

That is waaaaaayyyyy to many mushrooms lol. At least the plates don't attach themselves. Thankful for that lol
 
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