My jumping plate baby

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Found my tiny plate baby balancing on top of the stem of an overturned frag plug. No idea how it got up there. I have to assume it jumped. Keep an eye on your plates, folks!
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And yes, I know the plate looks bad with all that exposed skeleton. However, this plate was written off as D-E-A-D dead little more than a week ago. It arrived in bad shape and quickly lost almost all of its tissue:
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Not even a mouth left. I just kept it on the sand bed and ignored it. 10 days later:
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It grew some tissue and a mouth back. It also can eat small particulate food now. And apparently jump. So don't write off your plates.
 
Found my tiny plate baby balancing on top of the stem of an overturned frag plug. No idea how it got up there. I have to assume it jumped. Keep an eye on your plates, folks!
1727250090993.jpeg



And yes, I know the plate looks bad with all that exposed skeleton. However, this plate was written off as D-E-A-D dead little more than a week ago. It arrived in bad shape and quickly lost almost all of its tissue:
1727250243032.jpeg

Not even a mouth left. I just kept it on the sand bed and ignored it. 10 days later:
1727250294962.jpeg

It grew some tissue and a mouth back. It also can eat small particulate food now. And apparently jump. So don't write off your plates.
Wow that little one is really coming along. I just posted a question about a some plate frags I have - had a minor disaster after posting then trying to fix it myself. Maybe my poor little one will be a tuff guy too.
 
Wow that little one is really coming along. I just posted a question about a some plate frags I have - had a minor disaster after posting then trying to fix it myself. Maybe my poor little one will be a tuff guy too.
Hope so! Don't count these little guys out!
 

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