My super sized plate coral

9secv6 · Sep 10, 2019

Came across this at a local pet store. He ordered it in a a whim not knowing it would be this big. Once he got he only knew of two customers who had tanks big enough and they couldn't make room fast enough. For me it will be a perfect center piece when the other light comes in for the Zeroedge. Its roughly 13 in diameter

Hemmdog · Sep 10, 2019

Wow! Nice!

JumboShrimp · Sep 10, 2019

Very sweet, indeed. How much did you pay?

9secv6 · Sep 10, 2019

150. When you looking at from the top tank is 30 inches wide and almost takes up half the tank

JumboShrimp · Sep 10, 2019

Great price! The size of a pizza! Lol.

KrisReef · Sep 10, 2019

Nice specimen.
My little plate inflates and moves around. It likes to settle on other corals and slowly eat them. I put live rocks around him to keep him from moving too far.

They do like to eat small pellets and fish food when they can catch it.

Braves Fan · Sep 10, 2019

I have never been able to keep one of these long term ,, congrats to you

Katrina71 · Sep 10, 2019

How deep is that tank? Loving it!

Braves Fan · Sep 10, 2019

I have a fairly new tank now ,, but over the years in other established tanks ,, I have never had luck with Plate Corals ,, I really wasn't sure if anyone really even kept these corals any longer ,, I have read a lot of post over the years of a lot of people losing them ,,,

Daniel@R2R · Sep 10, 2019

Wow! That one is huge!!

Dsnakes · Sep 10, 2019

Sweet plate!

9secv6 · Sep 10, 2019

The tank is only 10 inches deep. Dimension are 42.5x33x10.

9secv6 · Sep 10, 2019

I feed him some meater food every three days and he seem sto be loving it. Tank only has the main pump for flow, but the tank is 57 gallons and jebao 6500 is 1700gph and I'm running it at 100%. With the Zeroedge the water is so oxygenated corals seem to love it

Katrina71 · Sep 10, 2019

William Hardifer said:
The tank is only 10 inches deep. Dimension are 42.5x33x10.

That little frag looks like trouble!

KrisReef · Sep 10, 2019

William Hardifer said:
I feed him some meater food every three days and he seem sto be loving it. Tank only has the main pump for flow, but the tank is 57 gallons and jebao 6500 is 1700gph and I'm running it at 100%. With the Zeroedge the water is so oxygenated corals seem to love it

These corals can easily be overfed, ime. I like to feed my fish and let the plate (and other lps) catch the extra drift and fish feces. The best my large plate ever looked was when I had a Clarkii clownfish using the plate as homebase. I moved the fish and the coral was in shock for +1year afterwards.

I've kept 2 for many years, one I got as a small green dot attached to a wild zoa colony. I lost or traded the zoa's away years ago, but the green dot grew quickly to about the size of a nickel and detached from the zoa rock. I put it in a dish on the bottom to keep it from being blown out of the light and under the rocks and let it grow there for 3-6 months until it was big enough to stay put on the bottom (I had coral sand back then.)

The other my family bought me as a nickel-quarter sized coral. The guy who bagged it accidentally broke the skeleton when he bagged it and it 'healed' in the shape of a lock washer. It's skeleton is about 6" in diameter and it puffs up to 8-10" x 3"+ thickness when it's happy and the lights are off. The older one is smaller, slightly more oblong that round and maybe 5" long X 4" and it doesn't inflate as much as the larger one. Both will inflate and land on and eat plate corals, pocillopora, SPS, etc. I don't see mesentery filaments like other fighting corals but I believe they do enjoy eating others by landing on top of them.