Baby plate coals everywhere!!!

[Adam10045]

I had this beautiful green plate with a yellow mouth that one day died due to a power outage. I had this plate from the size of a quarter until it was the size of my hand. After it died, I decided to leave it in the tank because I seen revs post about the red plate babies. Long story short, a month later it was COVERED in tiny dots which I could hardly see but I knew exactly what was happening. The dots are growing very fast and a couple months later, here it is. My plate skeleton is now covered with 100+ baby plates. Most are hard to see because they are still popping up even today. but about 50 are visual for the camera. Is crazy that even a few months later new heads are showing up. All of This to me is amazing.

 

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[VB68]

Very cool.

 

[Eric81]

That is pretty amazing!

 

[underwaterfirefighter]

That is awesome! Please keep us posted on their progress.

 

[Adam10045]

Will do, thanks guys

 

[EW_Fish]

Buddy of mine had his die and came back with 100+ plates

 

[shrimplet]

It's pretty amazing how a little bit of tissue left on a skeleton can turn to to so many new life's

 

[Merlin3]

Makes me want to kill my hand sized plate lol. Is this the only way they reproduce?

 

[Adam10045]

Lol I've thought about that before. But they do reproduce other ways. In captivity... Not so sure

 

[TriggerThis]

Did you leave it in the light and flow that it was in or did u move it or what? I have a plate skeleton and I was wondering of as long as it was still in the water it would reproduce. Or if it had to stay in the light etc

 

[Singlefin]

Buddy of mine had his die and came back with 100+ plates

Same here. Buddy was telling me tonight.

 

[Adam10045]

No kept it in the same spot it was in before it died. Didn't touch it

 

[Haddonis Reef]

Mine has done the same thing recently. I had it for about 7 yrs

 

[Adam10045]

Even thought I lost my large plate. I'm pretty excited that I now have a plate factory. I've heard that they keep producing babies once it does this. When one drops off off, another one formes

 

[melev]

This is the one skeleton I tell people to never throw out, and we need everyone to spread the word. Given time, you'll end up with new ones if you'll just leave them alone.

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[plrbear25]

Cut me off one of the babies. I'll call him lazarus

 

[WhoKnew]

It is a beautiful thing to watch, grow all these babies.

 

[jgraz]

Very cool. I was hoping for the same thing to happen to me when mine died but sadly its been about 6 months and nothing. But there it will stay.