feeding FUNGIA PLATE coral

[The Escaped Ape]

Pass. As I said, I'm no expert, only relaying a fragment of information that I thought I was sure in my memory of, but am progressively less sure of as you ask questions!

However, it doesn't sound like it, if you're not getting tissue recession. If you're worried, I guess you could post pics in the forum and see what people think.

 

[CA2OR]

ah....well I probably know just about as much as you do, maybe less.

 

[The Escaped Ape]

I'm betting quite a lot more! Been a while since I've had one.

 

[R33fLover]

When a Fungia dies leave the skeleton in the tank because there is a chance that new babies will appear. From what I have read this can take up to 6 months. I had one die and left in the tank but all I got was a feather duster and Coraline algae.

 

[Shawnbeaulieu]

i had a itty bity tiny one on some ive rock i got now its the size of my fist and its only been in my tank 7 months. i feed it all sorts of things ive noticed if it doesent like what i feed it it dont eat it and lets it go. pellets krill squid flakes formula 2 scallops eats it all up yum

 

[E.intheC]

I've heard the long tentacle plates were extremely hard to keep alive. Also, I thought plates were supposed to be on the sandbed and not the rocks.

 

[Haddonisreef]

I bought this skeleton of a fungia w/ 7 babys growing on it. There was 6 the same a 1 that was different. They went on to produce about a totla of 20 plate sence i have had it and 3 spores are still producing. I dont spot feed just alot of phyto!

 

[scapes]

i had spent $50 on a long tentacle variety a couple years back. killed it. never got another one. then one day last year, at the end of the year, i acquired these two--

the fellow reefer who i bought them from said that his mother colony died and produced babies, and more babies keep being produced, so he has a ton of them now. these pics were taken a couple months back and after looking at them today, they have gotten bigger than this. they're draping all through the egg crate. i have these about 3" below the water surface directly under t5's. look pretty good to me i spot feed just a couple times a week.

 

[cody6766]

I've gathered that the heliofungia (long tentacle) are very hard to keep and are hit and miss. Fungia (short tentacle plates) are much easier and have a higher survival rate

 

[lovetoreef]

I have had good luck with my fungias if i spot feed them - usually one or two mysis a couple times a week - i keep mine on the sandbed and it is doing very well

 

[jmoaks]

My fungia will target and attack stomatilla snails if they venture too close.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I just watched this fungia eating pellets. Very cool to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq3G43x1oxM

 

[lpsfan]

I've had mine for two years now, never target fed it and it lives on the sand bed.

 

[Tweaked]

Whoa... looks to be heliofungia ? for two years.. impressive

 

[Zalick]

Just adding my 2 cents here. I've had a Heliofungia actiniformis for a couple weeks now. The first week I did not spot feed it and it shrunk a little every day. Once I spot fed it, it perked back up. I then went out of town for 5 days and had someone else feeding the tank, with no spot feeding. Got home and it was shrunk up again. I didn't think it would make it. Lots of exposed skeleton at night. I've been spot feeding it daily the last 3 days and its completely come back. I'm going to keep spot feeding it daily and report back to this thread every 6 months. Seems to be a lot of different information out there and the general consensus is these don't last long.