What would you do if your plate coral started making babies?
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Petcrazyson
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I’d tell it to make more!
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
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I'd cry with happiness! I have the skeleton of a dead plate that I'm still hoping might regenerate.
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I was asking like a party question "If you followed a rainbow and at the end it led to your fish tank and a bunch of gold plate corals what would you do?"
In elementary school the rumor was that at the end of a rainbow was a leprechauns pot of gold.
It's something that's super unlikely to happen and if it happened to you no one would believe you. I saw an alien or a ghost or big foot. I found a pot of gold with a rainbow coming out of it. Do you believe in fairy tales? I'm pretty sure at least one leprechaun is missing some of his gold.
The reason I'm asking such a weird question, in such a weird way; is because I choose to believe in fairy tales. If you don't have faith enough to chase a rainbow you'll never be the lucky duck that finds gold.
Also I'm waiting for my fungia to make babies so I can come back after the anthocauli grow bigger and more photogenic so I can say, "Actually you were literally wrong and here's a picture."
Ah, if it's hypothetical, then I would be worried it would end up like the prolific porcilipora that drops clones everywhere in the tank.
Before you know it you have a tank full of the exact same plating coral... people will avoid it like the plague and the only people that will buy it is unsuspecting hobbyists and LFS owners.
If my scenario is to be considered, then a couple more boxes need to be added.
□ Nuke it from space
□ Start a grass roots campaign to warn others of the dangers.
Before you know it you have a tank full of the exact same plating coral... people will avoid it like the plague and the only people that will buy it is unsuspecting hobbyists and LFS owners.
If my scenario is to be considered, then a couple more boxes need to be added.
□ Nuke it from space
□ Start a grass roots campaign to warn others of the dangers.
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You should pick the last option because I can't add new choices. So playing along I would invest in marketing then saturate the market like this:
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Just put it to the side in the tank with a little indirect flow, and give it a month or two. I had two orange plates that were put at opposite sides of the tank under the same par (verified with par meter) and flow and one died out while the other is thriving. I put the “dead one to the side in the tank and didn’t think about it. 2 months later I start seeing flecks of orange on the dead plate skeleton. It’s slowly growing but the flecks are slowly getting bigger, so I believe I have 5 babies on the way.
