Plate coral under strong light?

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Skeleton, it was @4.5-5" inflated.

Mine is about 6" wide now the pet shop I got it from had an 8" I was like wow. How big can they get?

 

[Holy_makerel]

Had mine close to a year. Feed them regularly and they thrive. On my sandbed. As long as you don't have something blowing sand into them they should be good. I can't even fit mine into the frame of my 50mm macro anymore. Its 7+inches across

 

[Vaughn17]

I've kept them long term on both sand and rock. They don't seem to handle high nutrients very well (NO3 greater than 10 ppm) and do need to be spot fed on a regular basis, IMO.

 

[gacolt]

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?

I keep my plates under sps lighting ati t5 in a shallow reef 9x48x12.one got covered in sand and lost all it's flesh even the mouth was gone. it has grown it's skin and mouth back but still looks weird.i have always had strong lighting with my tanks and never lost a plate coral.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I keep my plates under sps lighting ati t5 in a shallow reef 9x48x12.one got covered in sand and lost all it's flesh even the mouth was gone. it has grown it's skin and mouth back but still looks weird.i have always had strong lighting with my tanks and never lost a plate coral.

Picture or it didn't happen hahaha

 

[xjiang7]

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

Well, no. But mine have been buried by sand...

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Dig it out put it on a rock

 

[xjiang7]

Dig it out put it on a rock

Lol I will try that

 

[chowwil]

I have both long and short tentacle for about 6 months under LED and on sand bed and they are doing fine. I do target feed twice a month

 

[xjiang7]

I have both long and short tentacle for about 6 months under LED and on sand bed and they are doing fine. I do target feed twice a month

I fed them quite frequently when they were open. Could I overfed them?

 

[evolved]

I've kept short tentacles on the sand bed for years. Yes, they'll move around a bit sometimes, but I just keep an eye on them and move them back if they go too far - that's not very often.

A long tentacle I would never keep on a rock. Any little tear in their issue is enough to wipe them out.

Most of the plates you see here at the front of my tank I've had for years. The bright green tongue is the one I've had the longest- about 8 years.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

Haha my LTP is crazy this is how I found it today.

 

[Chris Hendrickson]

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

From my experience I wouldn't call this acclimating them at all. The reason to acclimate the corals isn't because they have been in a bag or container for a log time it's that the different tanks will have different water chemistry and doing a slow drip acclimation will allow the coral to adapt to your water chemistry. Also do you dim your lights when you add new coral and then slowly ramp them back up. If the coral isn't use to the amount of light that your providing they cage get stressed by to much light. Any time I add corals I drop my lights by about 50% of where they are and the. Take a week or two to bring them back up. It's all about reducing stress on the coral.

 

[chowwil]

I fed them quite frequently when they were open. Could I overfed them?

I don't think frequent feed will hurt it, but will promote more waste from the plate coral.

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I fed them quite frequently when they were open. Could I overfed them?

The answer is yes you can over feed them the food will rott in them if you don't give a least a day or 2 between feeding that goes for all coral.

 

[evolved]

The reason to acclimate the corals isn't because they have been in a bag or container for a log time it's that the different tanks will have different water chemistry and doing a slow drip acclimation will allow the coral to adapt to your water chemistry.

FWIW, I've never acclimated a coral for water parameters. Dip and into QT.
Provided the salinity of both the system it came from and the system it's going into are close (and by all means, they should be), then there's really no biological need to do such.

 

[Phiilip]

I found a plate coral snorkeling at about two feet deep surrounded by turtle grass in Palau. It was about 8" wide. So my guess is they should do well in strong light.