nova65ss Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 The two pinkish things in the middle of the visible side of the skeleton look like flesh to me. Are they attached? Pinkish/greenish down by the sand. Yes the stuff at the bottom of it with the small holes in the middle. It is kind of flesh like and soft. Link to comment
GoingPostal Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 Looks like you will get lucky and get some babies out of the deal, they will grow and look like little plates in a while. Can you see tentacles on them? It looks like flesh in the pics but hard to tell. This was mine right after it started popping up babies A couple months ago, they are quite a bit larger than this now but none popping off yet Link to comment
Nanobuds Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I was given this for free by the pet store because they said it was dead. I just thought the rock kind of looked cool. There was still a little flesh on it, but everyone told me it was dead. I just set it in the corner under a my powerhead. looked like this 2 months later and six months later cool tank. i like it Link to comment
clifford513 Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 +1 to GoingPostal. Congrats, nice freebie. Link to comment
nova65ss Posted January 3, 2010 Author Share Posted January 3, 2010 So to bring up a dead thread here is what I have now. I asked in the ID forum a few weeks ago and got confirmation they were sprouting babies. I put this in the sand about a year ago and now i have three growing. Pretty cool! You can kind of still see some of the old plate under the sand. Here they are eating some mysis! So I hear they will break away from the old plate once a little bigger will they blow around the tank or be heavy enough to stay in the sand? Thanks, Link to comment
cheryl jordan Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 Put it on your sand. Maybe some babies will grow on it. I have seen numerous times what looked like a dead plate all the sudden start developing sm. plates even after being buried in the sand with no light. So if it were mine I would keep it for awhile and see what happens. Link to comment
badfish816 Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 i love how everybody jumped your bones about it being dead and to take it out. good for you to take a chance. congrats on the new born! Link to comment
nova65ss Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Still growin'! Eatin' dinner! Full and happy! Link to comment
OClownsandNanos Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 That is just awesome. Congrats on the babies! Link to comment
nova65ss Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Another month and a fourth one has sprouted up. Hard to see in the pic but it's there. No idea what I am going to do with four plates? Link to comment
KrayzieVanh Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Nice!!! Corals are not as fragile as they seem eh'... Thanks for the update! Link to comment
kennycs1292 Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 very interesting. Its amazing how much stress can be put on a coral, to the point of what we thought was death, but how well it can regrow. Link to comment
nova65ss Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 So here we are a few more months down the road and one of them seperated from the dead plate about three weeks ago. The other three are very large at times and are on the verge of detaching soon it appears. My problem is they are not growing their skeleton at all. The one that detached is really giving me a hard time staying in place and tends to blow around the tank a little. I try to tuck him in a little spot in the rocks but a snail or hermit will bump into it and get it moving along again. It reall did a number on my blue ric when it blew into it one day and am afraid it is going to blow into more of my mushrooms and wipe them all out. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do or how to keep them until they get heavy enough to stay in the sand. I always see these frag racks and stuff in others tanks and wonder if anyone has rigged up some type of rack to keep plates on? Thanks for the help! Link to comment
Bill Nye Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 You could try keeping them under a strawberry basket or something so they dont blow around as much and the CuC cant get at them. Link to comment
Markushka Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Breeder net. +1 to that, tho a strawberry basket could work too. How many did you end up with? Link to comment
nova65ss Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Thanks for the info! The breeder basket looks like a good idea just not sure if I have a big enough free spot to put it? I currently have 4 growing, 3 are about 2" across when fully spread out and one started a little late so it is still really small about the size of a dime right now. Link to comment
jojoe972 Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 that is nice that you recieved 4 plates from one "almost" dead skeleton!! Good for you to keep it in your tank after a few people said it was a goner. Now you can keep one and give the rest to your friends or sell them. WIN WIN for you.....Congrats. Link to comment
nova65ss Posted September 11, 2010 Author Share Posted September 11, 2010 So it has been a while and these things just aren't forming a skeleton. They are still completely soft, blow up during the day about 2 inches across and at night shrink back down to about the size of a quarter. One has detached and the other three are still stuck to the old plate. I took the detached one out a month ago and put it in my 5 gallon and it is not forming a skeleton either. Any ideas to why they are not forming? Someone mentioned calcium and although I have not checked it in a while it shouldn't be too far off. I do check alk and it stays around 9 pretty consistently. Link to comment
nova65ss Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 So I have lost another from the dead skeleton and have another free floating plate coral luckily he did not touch anything this time the last one wiped out some rics I had growing for almost a year! I moved it to my 5 gallon with the other one but what I once thought was going to be a cool gift has become a big PITA! Anyone else have an idea or advice as to what is happening here and why no skeleton is forming? Thanks!! Link to comment
mbarton2010 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 needs more Cal im sure Link to comment
nova65ss Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 I check it weekly and it stays right at 400 on the reg? Link to comment
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