Plate gone funky

[Hubtech]

I've got a 3.5-4" plate that I picked up from a LFS about a month ago. everything been going great, but yesterday I noticed it wasn't opening up very well and maybe a brown rim, and today it appears to have some tissue loss. any ideas what I should do? water tested fine, no swings in alk or temp, and all of my other coral (LPS, Monti's, Zoa, blasto, shrooms, even a scoly) seem to be doing fine.

 

[Jason mack]

Hi , is it placed near anything that might be stinging it at night ?

 

[Hubtech]

nope. I can't make sense of it.

 

[DSC reef]

I know you said your parameters are stable but this looks chemistry related to me. Lost an orange plate with an alk swing and nutrient drop.

 

[Hubtech]

well I moved it to my frag tank JIC it was a fish or something pestering it.

 

[Instigate]

Looks like there is a chunk taken out of the skeleton. Am I seeing that correctly? Was that always there?

I had an orange plate that started to STN. I tried an iodine dip but it ended up slowly receding into nothing. If that happens to you as well don't take the skeleton out of your tank. It could form a bunch of little baby plates months later. I can't tell for sure yet but I see some little orange areas forming on mine. Good luck.

 

[Hubtech]

I just paid $150 for this dang thing a month ago... hope it doesn't die on me.

 

[Dsnakes]

I've got an orange plate that has been going down hill since the purchase. Other plates by it are doing great. I'm not sure what it could be either. Like others mentioned, leave the skeleton in if it does eventually die. Be patient if possible as it may take a long time. They are known to grow babies from the skeleton.

 

[Hubtech]

I'm not sure if the chunk was taken out when I bought it or not... are these typically finicky coral?

 

[Hubtech]

Also, you guys checkout my build thread....
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hubtechs-210-mixed-reef-build.360901/

 

[AZG]

Hermits destroyed mine.

 

[Instigate]

I'm not sure if the chunk was taken out when I bought it or not... are these typically finicky coral?

I don't have much experience so I can't really say but I think they are fragile. They are prone to shipping damage on the edges. I read that they can damage themselves from retracting their tissue too fast if they are picked up out of the water while the tissue is expanded. Best practice is to wave your hand over it a bit to encourage it to close up before taking it out of the water.

 

[Davisma]

I had an orange plate like that too and it also never got comfortable and the tissue just flaked away. Not sure why. I tried sticking food in its mouth among other things and it just wouldn't respond