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Well I don't normally tell what I spend, but I have to as part of my story. It just makes it better. Well about 1 1/2 years ago I decided I wanted a ref plate coral bad! I found one, but the price was a shocking $500. I had never spent that much for one coral but I had to have it! I sold some frags to pay for it and the wife okayed it. Here is what it looked like when I got it.
Well about 4-5 months ago or somewhere around then, the plate begin to die. My wife was so upset to say the least and my reefing buddies made fun. What are friends for? I for one was upset as well. I had heard stories of plate corals dying and then weeks later reproducing so with hopes held high I left the bare, ugly, skeleton that once was my red plate in the tank.
During the next few weeks my wife would ask me why it was still in their and my reef buddies continued to poke fun but I just couldnt let it go. Well after about 4 weeks or so I noticed a few little red spots on the coral. At first I thought it might have been some type of algae, but noticed later that low and behold these might be baby plate corals.
Long story short, I counted the other day and I have at least 80+ red baby plate corals growing and actually probably closer to 100! Many of them have now formed a mouth and all of them have feeder tentacles. They are red, and a few are the brightest red I have seen of any corals to date! I am super excited and I will get some pics as soon as I can. I know I said I would before, but I will I promise. I wanted to start a thread on this so I could document the process. I am going to start feeding them like crazy!
I guess as they get big enough do you think they will pop off? No way 100 baby plates can all grow up on the mama skeleton.
Pretty good investment huh?
Well about 4-5 months ago or somewhere around then, the plate begin to die. My wife was so upset to say the least and my reefing buddies made fun. What are friends for? I for one was upset as well. I had heard stories of plate corals dying and then weeks later reproducing so with hopes held high I left the bare, ugly, skeleton that once was my red plate in the tank.
During the next few weeks my wife would ask me why it was still in their and my reef buddies continued to poke fun but I just couldnt let it go. Well after about 4 weeks or so I noticed a few little red spots on the coral. At first I thought it might have been some type of algae, but noticed later that low and behold these might be baby plate corals.
Long story short, I counted the other day and I have at least 80+ red baby plate corals growing and actually probably closer to 100! Many of them have now formed a mouth and all of them have feeder tentacles. They are red, and a few are the brightest red I have seen of any corals to date! I am super excited and I will get some pics as soon as I can. I know I said I would before, but I will I promise. I wanted to start a thread on this so I could document the process. I am going to start feeding them like crazy!
I guess as they get big enough do you think they will pop off? No way 100 baby plates can all grow up on the mama skeleton.
Pretty good investment huh?