Green plate coral?

[brundell88]

I was just wondering if these are green plate corals? I bought the rock they are on for the polyps and these showed up out of nowhere and have been growing pretty decent ever since.

 

[ReeferBee]

definitely green plates. You may have a "plate tree". Cool hitchhikers!

 

[brundell88]

Plate tree? its 4 diff ones all in a bunch. 3 decent sized ones and a very small one that you can barely see.

 

[ReeferBee]

when a plate coral dies and the skeleton is left in the tank sometimes you'll get what's called a plate tree. This is where baby plate coral grow out of the old skeleton.

 

[brundell88]

Nice. That makes sense! I think that whole rock is a big plate coral skeleton.