I love plates!

[jp_75]

Love plates!!! Wish i could keep them alive
How often you feed them?

 

[VintageReefer]

Love plates!!! Wish i could keep them alive
How often you feed them?

I feed mine every 2-3 days

 

[kingranch2003]

I don’t have any plates ….seems like I’m slacking on the job.

I have had some acans, favias, and even a symphyllia coral come back from complete skeletal tissue recession…..

Good news! I'm nursing a symphyllia right now too. It's had receded so badly that I had given up on it. But if it makes it, I'll have a stunner.

 

[jp_75]

I feed mine every 2-3 days

What’s the longest time you kept plate?

 

[BryanM]

I love these plates.

from folks with experience, how "dangerous" is their aggression?

 

[Fish Fan]

Sorry in advance guys, but when I saw the title of this thread, I had to laugh!

I live in the Rochester New York area where we have a local culinary delicacy known as a "Garbage Plate", or simply just a "Plate", and ooooooooh man, do I love Plates lol!

Typically, a platter of mac salad and french fries or home fries, topped with two cheeseburgers or hot dogs, and absolutely smothered in a meat-based hot sauce, with chopped raw onions and mustard. Traditionally served with a roll or bread and butter.

Please know, there is ABSOLUTELY NO ketchup on a traditional Rochester Plate, and anyone who puts ketchup on a Plate should be taken out back and beaten repeatedly with a wet noodle.

A Plate is best enjoyed in your early 20's at about 3:30 am, after a long night of debauchery at the local bars

So You Think You Want to Try a Garbage Plate

Are you a food adventurer? Think you can take on the infamous Rochester Garbage Plate. Then read our guide to everything you need to know about this Rochester dish.

www.visitrochester.com

I mean, I LOOOOOOOOOVE Plates lol!!

Plate candy:

 

[mdpitts]

Thank you!

It’s a coral collectors insanity plate

Brace yourself…

insanity plate | Coral Collectors

coralcollectors.com

You did good. I love to have unusual beauties. I think I’ll print out a picture and tape it on my tank until I hit the lotto

 

[mdpitts]

Sorry in advance guys, but when I saw the title of this thread, I had to laugh!

I live in the Rochester New York area where we have a local culinary delicacy known as a "Garbage Plate", or simply just a "Plate", and ooooooooh man, do I love Plates lol!

Typically, a platter of mac salad and french fries or home fries, topped with two cheeseburgers or hot dogs, and absolutely smothered in a meat-based hot sauce, with chopped raw onions and mustard. Traditionally served with a roll or bread and butter.

Please know, there is ABSOLUTELY NO ketchup on a traditional Rochester Plate, and anyone who puts ketchup on a Plate should be taken out back and beaten repeatedly with a wet noodle.

A Plate is best enjoyed in your early 20's at about 3:30 am, after a long night of debauchery at the local bars

So You Think You Want to Try a Garbage Plate

Are you a food adventurer? Think you can take on the infamous Rochester Garbage Plate. Then read our guide to everything you need to know about this Rochester dish.

www.visitrochester.com

I mean, I LOOOOOOOOOVE Plates lol!!

Plate candy:

Some of those look pretty dang good! Do any have scrapple? I don’t know what that is but I’ve heard people up north mention it.

 

[Tamberav]

Heliofungia holy moly! That’s likely the prettiest heliofungia I have ever seen! How long have you had it?

I no longer have it (moved and starting over) but had it for several years. When I bought it, it had shorter fat tentacles like a typical one and no one wanted it at the frag swap because it wasn’t a gold torch lol. I guess something about the tank made it get really long.

 

[Fish Fan]

Some of those look pretty dang good! Do any have scrapple? I don’t know what that is but I’ve heard people up north mention it.

Not so, my friend! Scraple, which is a spiced pork "product" akin to SPAM (which is SPiced hAM (in a can!)), is a Southern thing, not typically found in New York but I have and would eat it lol!

EDIT: I looked it up, and indeed Scrapple comes from about the Pennsylvania area, so south of me for sure, but definitely not the "South". My bad!

And yes, these plates are goooooood lol!

Again, sorry to interrupt here guys, I just had to laugh and share our local "Plates" lol!

I'll show myself out now......

 

[VintageReefer]

Not so, my friend! Scraple, which is a spiced pork "product" akin to SPAM (which is SPiced hAM (in a can!)), is a Southern thing, not typically found in New York but I have and would eat it lol!

EDIT: I looked it up, and indeed Scrapple comes from about the Pennsylvania area, so south of me for sure, but definitely not the "South". My bad!

And yes, these plates are goooooood lol!

Again, sorry to interrupt here guys, I just had to laugh and share our local "Plates" lol!

I'll show myself out now......

What about Taylor ham ?

 

[VintageReefer]

What’s the longest time you kept plate?

I have never had success with plate longer than a year. So I swore them off and haven’t tried for the last decade.

I came across a friendly reefer with an “insanity plate” baby. I was buying other coral and he wanted a good price for it…considering what these actually sell for.

I liked it a lot but my history told me don’t get it. So I passed. Well few months later I was buying again and couldn’t get that plate out of my head and he said he has another baby even smaller and less money so I bought it…sight unseen.

A .25-.5” disk showed up loose in a bag of water and I thought. What the heck. This is the smallest coral I’ve ever bought. It’s going to make it about 1 day before it’s blown upside down and in the sand dead overnight.

I examined, and it did appear healthy and I figure I would give it my best attempt. I superglued to a frag plug so I could put in a rack. I target fed flake food I crumbled by hand because it’s mouth was too small to accept brine. And. It ate. And grew. And as it for larger I switched to nano pellets. And now it can eat pretty much anything I feed in my tank.

March

May

July

September

Present

 

[Fish Fan]

What about Taylor ham ?

I'm listening... and hungry....

 

[VintageReefer]

I'm listening... and hungry....

Are you familiar?

 

[LA Reef Addict]

I love my plate corals

 

[Fish Fan]

Are you familiar?

Nope! But I like food, love to cook, and I'm listening ;-)

 

[JoJosReef]

I love my plate corals

Never seen one quite so red as that one on the left!

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Good news! I'm nursing a symphyllia right now too. It's had receded so badly that I had given up on it. But if it makes it, I'll have a stunner.

So mine had receded to 3 heads left or I guess three places where there was a mouth. I cut away all the dead skeleton. And remounted to 3 separate plugs

All three have started growing tissue back on the skeleton so woohoo! I don’t have any photos of when it was at its worst

 

[kingranch2003]

So mine had receded to 3 heads left or I guess three places where there was a mouth. I cut away all the dead skeleton. And remounted to 3 separate plugs

All three have started growing tissue back on the skeleton so woohoo! I don’t have any photos of when it was at its worst

Wow, what a save. That is a beautiful symph. I love the gold glitter in the middle. Thanks for sharing the photos

 

[smitten with ocean life]

oh man! i would LOVE to try one of those plates fishfan! making my mouth water!! and my husband has PA roots and grew up with scrapple. ive learned to like it kinda. its ok