shinosuke
New member
Hello,
I recently purchased an orange fugnai plate coral. It is in my 12g nanocube, 72 watts of PC lighting on a 2-3 inch sand bed, stable water.
I put it in the tank on Sunday evening, Monday evening I fed the tank. I put a specturm pellet on the coral, nothing happened after 5 minutes. I put another pellet on the tip of the coral right on its mouth, nothing happened. I heard these guys are voracious eaeters.. A pair of frilly (maybe hairy.. can't tell the difference) mushrooms that I got at the same time both ate a pellet as soon as it touched them. Here are some pictures of the fungia.. does it look healthy to you.. should I be worried?
(please ignore the white epoxy everywhere, I've added a few new frags recently.)
On the top down picture, you can see the pellet food on the coral, close to the marauding peppermint shrimp.. the other "brown stuff" near the mouth of the coral looks similair to the algae that a mushroom spits out when it's not doing well. It has been on there since I first purchased the coral, when it was in the dealers tank.
(notice the fully open mushrooms at the bottom right in the first picture, and see the second picture at the right where they are closed up after feeding them)
I recently purchased an orange fugnai plate coral. It is in my 12g nanocube, 72 watts of PC lighting on a 2-3 inch sand bed, stable water.
I put it in the tank on Sunday evening, Monday evening I fed the tank. I put a specturm pellet on the coral, nothing happened after 5 minutes. I put another pellet on the tip of the coral right on its mouth, nothing happened. I heard these guys are voracious eaeters.. A pair of frilly (maybe hairy.. can't tell the difference) mushrooms that I got at the same time both ate a pellet as soon as it touched them. Here are some pictures of the fungia.. does it look healthy to you.. should I be worried?
(please ignore the white epoxy everywhere, I've added a few new frags recently.)

On the top down picture, you can see the pellet food on the coral, close to the marauding peppermint shrimp.. the other "brown stuff" near the mouth of the coral looks similair to the algae that a mushroom spits out when it's not doing well. It has been on there since I first purchased the coral, when it was in the dealers tank.

(notice the fully open mushrooms at the bottom right in the first picture, and see the second picture at the right where they are closed up after feeding them)