Stepping up to the plate...having fun with Fungia
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Obdigital1
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Mr. Or Mrs. Uniquecorals, since you are a plate expert and since ppl are coming to this post to reply about their love or interest in plate corals I want to extend my request to anyone willing to part / sell their plate colony / wild growing plate. Im only interested in plates still on their stem. Please feel free to answer back. Very VERY interested.
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Um, no one here is proffering themselves as an "expert", but there are some knowledgable reefers here. I don't think I have ever seen one attached to the mother colony in the trade...Would be interesting to see if anyone has!
-Scott
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Yup, they are quite frag-able!
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If you cut them in half, how long does it take them to grow back (roughly)?
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That's really tough to quantify...so many variables. Generally, when reefers frag these corals, they are cut into pie shaped segments...they can take around 4-6 months to get to a recognizable circular shape. That being said, they rebound nicely from imposed propagation if handled well, and can be healed over in mere weeks. Scary, but fun.
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Eienna
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Love that 3-mouther!can you frag fungias? mine has 3 mouths on it.
Obdigital1
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I'm sorry. I meant nothing bad with what I said as I feel that the knowledge you posted in the beginning of you post honestly made you an expert in my eyes. Anyway yes brother your right I have never seen them sold as a colony but the 2 colony's I have and the other 3 wild growing plates where from the trade. the first colony started as one single baby I bought from a store and now 6 years later has grown to a colony, the most recent colony I got from this site a week a go and the 3 baby's I have growing wild where purchased from 2 different stores here in Orlando fl.
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I would not know, my friend. Maybe it needs more food than it's getting. Personally, I've never kept them, but I had some luck reversing recession in a different coral I had by dosing Vita-Chem.
fbodykiller
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Do the mothers ever come up for sale? The ones that reproduce? I would love to have one that pops off babies.
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kovfunk22
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Not the prettiest plate but it sure is hungry. I shot this guy with a little time lapse photography chowing down. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5h_ysFZhG3WczZqR3hRN1BJekE/edit?usp=sharing
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Now that's cool stuff!
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Thanks for sharing that. I've watched mine eat before, but watching it in fast forward was sweet! Great use of videography!
robs.mark
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You had me there for a secondI really like plate corals. Here is my orange one that looks a little bit like Lincoln!
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