Why is my coral pulsating?

noahg2216 · Apr 16, 2019

My coral is moving it looks like its breathing what's wrong with it?

Lasse · Apr 17, 2019

Nothing wrong - I think, thes plate corals can move and also blow them self up rather much.

Sincerely Lasse

Katrina71 · Apr 17, 2019

+1 my plates move until they touch each other. Somehow I feel they are social creatures in some way.

mort · Apr 17, 2019

They can inflate and even turn themselves over by regulating the water in themselves. I do wonder if given the cloudiness and the description that you are actually seeing a spawning event.

noahg2216 · Apr 17, 2019

mort said:
They can inflate and even turn themselves over by regulating the water in themselves. I do wonder if given the cloudiness and the description that you are actually seeing a spawning event.

Really?! That would be very very cool ! How would I help it if I can?

noahg2216 · Apr 17, 2019

Katrina71 said:
+1 my plates move until they touch each other. Somehow I feel they are social creatures in some way.

Thank u and I do to! They are much more alive then people think they are!

noahg2216 · Apr 17, 2019

Lasse said:
Nothing wrong - I think, thes plate corals can move and also blow them self up rather much.

Sincerely Lasse

Thank u!

mort · Apr 18, 2019

noahg2216 said:
Really?! That would be very very cool ! How would I help it if I can?

In a tank it would be hard. As they live in colonies they tend to synchronize spawning and you get a mass of eggs and sperm. With single specimens this won't happen but it is still cool to see. There are a few videos o youtube of such events and they look a little like a spawning volcano. It is really only the cloudiness of the water in your picture that makes me think it might have but if that's for some other reason it likely just normal inflation and deflation.

In our tanks they do reproduce but its from their phoenix like powers to rise from the dead. If you see the flesh die off then don't get rid of the skeleton as often after a few weeks or months you see dozens of tiny new plates forming. I've known people to have grown over a hundred new corals from one plate this way.

noahg2216 · Apr 18, 2019

mort said:
In a tank it would be hard. As they live in colonies they tend to synchronize spawning and you get a mass of eggs and sperm. With single specimens this won't happen but it is still cool to see. There are a few videos o youtube of such events and they look a little like a spawning volcano. It is really only the cloudiness of the water in your picture that makes me think it might have but if that's for some other reason it likely just normal inflation and deflation.

In our tanks they do reproduce but its from their phoenix like powers to rise from the dead. If you see the flesh die off then don't get rid of the skeleton as often after a few weeks or months you see dozens of tiny new plates forming. I've known people to have grown over a hundred new corals from one plate this way.

Ok thank u!