Fungia Plate Coral Help!

[Pond Boy]

I apologize for hijacking this thread.

Not a hijack in any way you offered up your experience that's how we all learn.
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[anthonys51]

That has not been my experience as far as light though I would agree that they don't like or need very strong light, they are photosynthetic. I have more than a dozen now and all are on the bottom of the tank but not in the shade and I have some serious lighting on my tank. Granted the tank is 24" deep.

OP, if it does die, don't remove it. I had one Fungia die in my tank and it's constantly shitting out new plates. I have at least a dozen from it and even a year later, it's still producing new fungia. Also, I don't think it's your alk. Natural sea water is around 7.5 dkh. 8 in my opinion is just fine. Some corals can be finicky but one thing you didn't mention was the age of the tank. They really do best in a mature system and as such, i wouldn't recommend them for a tank that is under 12 months old. You also didn't mention your livestock or if you did, I must have missed it. Some fish may pick at them which will irritate them. As for bristle worms, as noted above, their populations are typically limited by the amount of waste and detritus in your tank. Judging by some of the macro growing on your rocks, the presence of some cyano that I see and the amount of worms you have in your system, that tells me you need to work on your husbandry. Vacuuming, blowing the rocks off, staying on top of Po4 etc. Lastly, bristle worms are detritivores/scavengers. They don't usually mess with corals.

What a great response.
Will just add one thing. Don't move them around. Once there flesh gets ripped they can go down hill quickly
I have 8 and like stated I don't find they need shade just put them on sand bed with not a lot of flow and leave them alone. If you want you can feed it once a week, but I would feed more if I where you. Once person stated for you to feed less, but saying to someone to feed less when all you stated was you feed once a day isn't enough info. Do you feed handful of flakes or 2 flakes ? Do you do water changes if so how often and how much. Do you blow your rock and clean your sand when you do these water changes. Also what's your flow like. Although fungia don't like direct flow. I feel glow is very important in all Reef tanks.


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[bfishy22]

Hi gus there has been a bit of a development. Came into my room today to see a long brown string coming off my plate coral. Could this possibly be brown jelly? It sort of just drifted off it, into the powerhead and disintegrated.

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[lionfish300]

That has not been my experience as far as light though I would agree that they don't like or need very strong light, they are photosynthetic. I have more than a dozen now and all are on the bottom of the tank but not in the shade and I have some serious lighting on my tank. Granted the tank is 24" deep.

OP, if it does die, don't remove it. I had one Fungia die in my tank and it's constantly shitting out new plates. I have at least a dozen from it and even a year later, it's still producing new fungia. Also, I don't think it's your alk. Natural sea water is around 7.5 dkh. 8 in my opinion is just fine. Some corals can be finicky but one thing you didn't mention was the age of the tank. They really do best in a mature system and as such, i wouldn't recommend them for a tank that is under 12 months old. You also didn't mention your livestock or if you did, I must have missed it. Some fish may pick at them which will irritate them. As for bristle worms, as noted above, their populations are typically limited by the amount of waste and detritus in your tank. Judging by some of the macro growing on your rocks, the presence of some cyano that I see and the amount of worms you have in your system, that tells me you need to work on your husbandry. Vacuuming, blowing the rocks off, staying on top of Po4 etc. Lastly, bristle worms are detritivores/scavengers. They don't usually mess with corals.

I do dip my sps with Bayers Advance insects killer. What should I do with the Fungia? Thanks you

 

[anthonys51]

Dipping with Bayer kills pest. If you notice brown jelly on lps corals Iodine dip might help.


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[jlmawp]

If the brown stuff is coming from the “mouth”, it’s zooxanthellae, the stuff that allows photosynthesis to happen. Lots of LPS create and excrete it to regulate how much to use based on lighting conditions. They also tend to do this when stressed, so take that as you will.