Have you kept a Diaseris Plate Coral?

[SauceyReef]

Have you kept a Diaseris Plate Coral? Was it hardy/easy to keep? Or a difficult coral. I have heard conflicting opinions on if they are easier than normal fungias or not. I have always had a special place in my heart for plate corals, and for many years have wanted to try a Diaseris because they can frag themselves. They are quite difficult to find locally. Was just wondering if anyone had experience with these and what that was like.

 

[SauceyReef]

Bump

 

[FMF0331]

Never had a problem keeping mine. I treat it like a regular fungia plate coral, on the bottom of the tank, medium flow and feed it once a week

 

[SauceyReef]

Never had a problem keeping mine. I treat it like a regular fungia plate coral, on the bottom of the tank, medium flow and feed it once a week

How often does it split for you?? I’ll be honest just normal fungia plates have been hit or miss for me.

 

[FMF0331]

Hasn't split yet, I hope by feeding them they will grow big enough to form the split line ( hope that makes sense ) and eventually they will have babies.

 

[SauceyReef]

Hasn't split yet, I hope by feeding them they will grow big enough to form the split line ( hope that makes sense ) and eventually they will have babies.

How long have you had it? Would love to see a photo

 

[FMF0331]

Was given to me by a friend .. living in my tank for approx 2 months now.

 

[SauceyReef]

Was given to me by a friend .. living in my tank for approx 2 months now.

It’s the one on the right, correct?? Dang that’s beautiful

 

[VintageReefer]

First pic is when it arrived. Other pics are random between March and April at different times of day / lighting settings

 

[encrustingacro]

Diaseris was reclassified to Cycloseris in 2011.

First pic is when it arrived. Other pics are random between March and April at different times of day / lighting settings

That's actually a Heliofungia fralinae, not a Cycloseris fragilis/distorta

Was given to me by a friend .. living in my tank for approx 2 months now.

If you're talking about the left plate, that is also a Heliofungia fralinae.

 

[SauceyReef]

Interesting thank you for the info. They are such beautiful corals. I would love one, but cant even keep a Fungia plate alive.

 

[VintageReefer]

That's actually a Heliofungia fralinae, not a Cycloseris fragilis/distorta

The mother plate self propagates to make the babies…seller has had many years and said none of the babies are frags he made. He has to wait for the parent plate to split on its own to make the babies

Do all plates do this or just diaseris ?

 

[Uncle99]

Can’t keep any plates beyond 3-4 months, especially the Long tentacle ones.

 

[SauceyReef]

The mother plate self propagates to make the babies…seller has had many years and said none of the babies are frags he made. He has to wait for the parent plate to split on its own to make the babies

Do all plates do this or just diaseris ?

Just diaseris which is why I was interested in getting one.

 

[SauceyReef]

Can’t keep any plates beyond 3-4 months, especially the Long tentacle ones.

Mine just die over a year! Like the one I have is still alive just never opens tentacles out anymore. I just put it in the shade as a last resort. Literally ever other coral and LPS is doing fine.

 

[VintageReefer]

Just diaseris which is why I was interested in getting one.

That’s what I thought. And I was told at sale mine was diaseris but in this thread I was told it’s not. I checked with the seller on how the frag / baby was created and was told the mother splits on its own and makes the babies and he’s never cut into it or made his own frags.

 

[VintageReefer]

Can’t keep any plates beyond 3-4 months, especially the Long tentacle ones.

That’s my experience as well, and I agree for whatever reason the long tentacle ones are even more sensitive

I am hoping that since my plate is tank born and raised and started as a 3/4” plate, that it will be used to my conditions and be heartier than one wild captured specimens

 

[brandon429]

these are motile corals, take it off the plug above. they can move across substrate via polyp expansion and contraction/but not if glued.

 

[VintageReefer]

these are motile corals, take it off the plug above. they can move across substrate via polyp expansion and contraction/but not if glued.

That’s the reason I glued it to a plug lol

 

[VintageReefer]

If you had this

And it arrived and was .75” and mobile and weighed less than an ounce…

Would you put it on the sand in a 75g tank with mp40’s, nassarius snails and a conch, and other critters? If this thing flips upside down it could be dead overnight. If it gets blown behind rockwork I might never see it again. I plugged it to keep track of it and I will pick where it goes based on what it needs. I feed and monitor daily. When it’s larger I will likely remove the plug but for now it’s staying on the plug.

<I know someone else who got the same thing, same size, and it moved several times in the first week and he woke up to it upside down on the sand with bad tissue recession and it ended up dieing>

My first thought when I saw it and it was fingernail size was I need to keep this safe until it’s larger