My Plate Coral Healthy?

[GPB]

I have a Fungia Plate Coral. It is a green one. It's about 3" across. It apears to be bleached. It is not bright green anymore. . I recently switched from all PC lighting to a 150W MH /with two 65 W PC's.

It does have it's polyps out all the time. They are not fully extended during the day but the thing really puffs up at night. It eats readily.

Should I be concerned.How do plate corals normally appear in the day?

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

Like this

Like this

 

[GPB]

Those are outrageously great looking plate corals. Mine looks much more anemic than those. I've had mine a year and a half and it has never looked close to those.

Very Nice!

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

That is a reproducing colony. You can see the dead mother in the sand bed! I have about 11 on there right now!

 

[yardboy]

Here's mine jumping off Mama to become members of the gang. Mama just keeps having more!

 

[fuzz1974]

What do you feed it? Feed it meaty foods krill and silverside. It works for mine.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/84117mini-MVC-037F.JPG





Fuzz

 

[UnderwaterExotic]

Nothing!

 

[wizzyb]

Here's mine, with expensive tastes, lol

This was accidental. I had a pair of clownfish that were attacking my anthias, and so put two more pairs of clownfish to distract them. It did distract them, momentarily. I caught all of them out asap, but somehow the plate got a hold of one of the poor ones who didn't make it.

Here's another picture, another day... can't quite get the color right cuz this guy is Bright orange, but you kind of get the idea

 

[ri]

wizzyb - The plate coral captured the clown fish?

Amazing!!! My plates are so slow I need to chase fish away for 5-10 minutes they take food...

ri

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

awesome piks of a scrumptious snack...