Plate coral under strong light?

[xjiang7]

Plate corals are the ones I have gave up.
Used to have three at different times all ended up died slowly.
Today I heard someone said they distributed at shallow waters, lower then 30m depth, so actually need strong lighting. As a result, they do better on rock surface in reef tank.
I went back to read some literatures and that is correct, there is plate coral distributed at 9 meters.
So, anyone tried to place a plate coral under sps lighting conditions and had success?

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I habe had mine under cheap leds on the sand bed for 3 months how quick did yours die?

 

[xjiang7]

I habe had mine under cheap leds on the sand bed for 3 months how quick did yours die?

Can't remember the exact time, but I don't think it was as long as 3 months. Plus I had the short tentacles ones

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Dont put plates or brain corals on the rocks. Was it a short or long tentacle one? The long tentacle plate corals tend to do poorly for some reason while the short tentacles plate corals are rather hardy.

 

[xjiang7]

Dont put plates or brain corals on the rocks. Was it a short or long tentacle one? The long tentacle plate corals tend to do poorly for some reason while the short tentacles plate corals are rather hardy.

All short ones... I still won't try more, it is sad to look them die.

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

All short ones... I still won't try more, it is sad to look them die.

That is rather odd. How long did it take for that to happen, sometimes they can get damaged from shipping.

 

[xjiang7]

That is rather odd. How long did it take for that to happen, sometimes they can get damaged from shipping.

I got them from LFS. They were doing very well for the first week or two, but then the tissue starts to peel off. It has been a while so I can't remember the exact time, but it seems to me a matter of weeks

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

I got them from LFS. They were doing very well for the first week or two, but then the tissue starts to peel off. It has been a while so I can't remember the exact time, but it seems to me a matter of weeks

How did you acclimate and handle the coral? What lighting was it under? These corals do well under various lighting conditions it seems. They can occur as shallow as 1 meter deep to 30 meters deep.

 

[xjiang7]

How did you acclimate and handle the coral? What lighting was it under? These corals do well under various lighting conditions it seems. They can occur as shallow as 1 meter deep to 30 meters deep.

Thanks for the information! I did not drip acclimate as the LFS is only 10 min drive away. I use a bowl to swap tank water into a buck multiple times during 5 min. The light is Radion G3 xr 30

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

Thanks for the information! I did not drip acclimate as the LFS is only 10 min drive away. I use a bowl to swap tank water into a buck multiple times during 5 min. The light is Radion G3 xr 30

The lack of acclimation may have caused issues, but I seriously doubt it. Where did you put the plate coral?

 

[xjiang7]

The lack of acclimation may have caused issues, but I seriously doubt it. Where did you put the plate coral?

On the sand bed and not in shadowed area

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

On the sand bed and not in shadowed area

How powerful are you running the light?

 

[xjiang7]

How powerful are you running the light?

Not strong, in a 28 cube about 35% intensity.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Hope you didn't throw the skeleton away they regenerate daughters off of them even after a year.

 

[Salty1962]

Plates do like higher lighting. Where most folks get into trouble is how they handle them. It doesn't take much to damage the mantle and they should never be placed on a rocky surface. Sand is also a major killer of plates. I only handled mine with surgical gloves and placed them, gently, on pieces of smoothed off pvc pipe so sand wouldn't damage them. I had one for 4 yrs and it was 4"across in my previous tank. The person I sold it to still has it.

 

[Kenfishy]

Weird, my plate coral moved itself to a better location by inflating and deflating.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Plates do like higher lighting. Where most folks get into trouble is how they handle them. It doesn't take much to damage the mantle and they should never be placed on a rocky surface. Sand is also a major killer of plates. I only handled mine with surgical gloves and placed them, gently, on pieces of smoothed off pvc pipe so sand wouldn't damage them. I had one for 4 yrs and it was 4"across in my previous tank. The person I sold it to still has it.

4" skeleton or flesh

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Weird, my plate coral moved itself to a better location by inflating and deflating.

It's funny they will flip them selves over to move.

 

[Salty1962]

4" skeleton or flesh

Skeleton, it was @4.5-5" inflated.

 

[Salty1962]

It's funny they will flip them selves over to move.

That's one of the main reasons I put mine on PVC so they would quit mowing down my other corals moving aound