Need Fungia Help w/ pics

[SVXH6]

wow, good job.. looks great!!keep doin what your doin..

 

[blange3]

Hey Gene, looking good!

Keep feeding it. I'm looking for an orange one myself. I'll have to step up the hunt now that I've seen yours!

 

[bcolvin]

Awesome!!!! Good work.

Bennett

 

[whatcaneyedo]

darn I wish I saw this thread a week ago. A LFS offered me a long tentacle plate for free because they thought it might revive in my tank... instead I said no and it hit the trash can.

 

[Sk8r]

I've noted something with plate coral in general: they seem to respond negatively to phosphate. I had phosphate way higher than was showing, and as I raised both alkalinity and calcium to a higher level, as recommended by the forum, my plate nosedived, lost its ability to eat, and just hung on, with some tissue erosion. After one negative experience I blamed on Phosban, I decided to try it again, and stuck with it this time. Now the phosphate level is dropping, and the plate is suddenly showing an ability to hang onto food and feed itself from other than the light alone, even though part of its mouth is eroded and algified. I have a scarlet hermit that periodically gets up on it and cleans away at that algae clump, which is a far more delicate operator than I could ever be, and in short, this coral is showing signs of coming back from this combination of circumstances.

The lethals [perhaps] were a combination of high phosphate in the background, bound, with high alk and cal.

The solution was Phosban taking the phosphate out. I wait to see whether or not it will save this coral and enable it to recover missing tissue.

 

[bklynmet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8294212#post8294212 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sk8r
I've noted something with plate coral in general: they seem to respond negatively to phosphate. I had phosphate way higher than was showing, and as I raised both alkalinity and calcium to a higher level, as recommended by the forum, my plate nosedived, lost its ability to eat, and just hung on, with some tissue erosion. After one negative experience I blamed on Phosban, I decided to try it again, and stuck with it this time. Now the phosphate level is dropping, and the plate is suddenly showing an ability to hang onto food and feed itself from other than the light alone, even though part of its mouth is eroded and algified. I have a scarlet hermit that periodically gets up on it and cleans away at that algae clump, which is a far more delicate operator than I could ever be, and in short, this coral is showing signs of coming back from this combination of circumstances.

The lethals [perhaps] were a combination of high phosphate in the background, bound, with high alk and cal.

The solution was Phosban taking the phosphate out. I wait to see whether or not it will save this coral and enable it to recover missing tissue.

I think you hit the nail on the head with what is going on with my plate. I am having some cyano issues but phosphates have not been detectable by my test kit. I have not been able to pinpoint a possible other cause. Looks like I need to step up the fight against the phosphates even if I do not measure any. My alk is at 8 with calcium at 410. Thanks for highlighting the phosphae/alk/calcium issue for plates.

 

[Sk8r]

Glad if I could help: I was absolutely amazed at how much phosphate must have been bound in mine, but the rabbit fish episode probably did it to me: I was actually importing caulerpa to feed that creature, because I didn't want him noshing corals [he would, if hungry] until I could catch him. Tons of phosphate went in, none measurable thereafter. But boy is the treatment making a difference.

 

[ReefBuilderNJ]

looks alot better. i have a fungia that has half a skeleton exposed and that half has babies all over it