Long Tentacle Plate - Trying to Save It

[cward]

Thank you. Although my flow pushes the SSB around a bit, I do keep the LTP on sand so the flesh doesn't get torn from the jagged skeleton.

 

[eclecticvibe]

Matt,
Even if you should happen to lose the plate, they sometimes come back from bare skeleton. They don't always regrow but I've read several accounts of them budding daughter companies after no flesh was visible on the skeleton. I guess it's some sort of survival technique that allows them to recover after some sort of trauma.

 

[IndyMatt]

Jay I have heard that as well. It is actually doing very well. It is eating and is extending its tentacles. I was nervous doing my weekly water change last night. It shriveled up a little and then came right back out after the water change was done. I truly believe it is coming back.

Not to get side tracked but do you guys have any Kole tangs in stock? I know you had one a week or so ago but has since sold.

 

[mandrin13]

So after reading this,I think my plate has luck hen.I had a nitrate spike about 2 months ago,and about 90% of the skeloton is showing,but I've been trying to bring him back.he has stopped receading.Should I just keep feeding him?Oh,he is a short tentacle plate.

 

[eclecticvibe]

Definitely on the short tentacle plate keep feeding it. Just put very small meaty pieces of food or zooplankton replacements on the remaining tissue. Like the long tentacles(heliofungia), regular plates(fungia) also can sprout buds from bare skeleton.

Matt, I don't think we have any Kole's right now. There is a Tomensis tank in stock right now.

 

[mandrin13]

thanx,irs growing back a little.Its definetly stopped rececing.

 

[pixburg-reefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7875384#post7875384 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eclecticvibe
Matt,
Even if you should happen to lose the plate, they sometimes come back from bare skeleton. They don't always regrow but I've read several accounts of them budding daughter companies after no flesh was visible on the skeleton. I guess it's some sort of survival technique that allows them to recover after some sort of trauma.

There is a great picture of this in Aquarium Corals, Selection, Husbandry, and Natural History on page 80 if you have the book (Eric Borneman).

There is a really good chance that it would fully recover; it really doesn't look THAT bad. I just saved a green Euphyllia divisa about two weeks ago that had 80% of the tissue gone and only a few tentacles that would still inflate. Now, it has grown back almost half of the skeleton (maybe 35 or 40%) and it's actually starting to redevelop its mouth.

Kelly

 

[bklynmet]

How's the plate looking these days? I'm asking because my short tentacle plate (which I didn't even knwo was a short tentacle plate until today) started showing skeleton two days ago. I've stepped up feedings and today for the first time saw 1/8" long tentacles arount the perimter. Just wondering how your's is as possibly inspiration for my situation. Thanks.

 

[JotaDe]

Can you give us an update, I'd like to see any changes?

 

[IndyMatt]

Unfortunately, the plate did not survive. I was really hoping it would pull through. It would look good and then look bad and then it had a bad stretch it never recovered from. It stopped taking food and I think that was the problem. I got the skeleton in the tank hoping new ones sprout from the skeleton.

 

[bklynmet]

Sorry to hear the news.

My orange plate is touch and go as well. Days that it looks good and days it does not. I've purposely stopped target feeding pellets and just indirectly feed phyto, and selcon soaked cyclopeeze through the water column on alterdate days. I think digestion was an issue with the pellets.