Plate Coral / Fungia ID

[erichatesmice]

Hi guys. New to this forum. Picked this up recently at the local LFS since the color was so eye-catching for a plate...
Which brings me to my question. Is this a short-tentacle or long-tentacle plate? The tentacles are no more than 3/4" long when fully extended.

It's also more of a deep indigo purple than the purple-blue shown here. It's because of the lighting.

 

[Caleb Kruse]

That is sooooo INCREDIBLE!!! PM me if you want to sell it!

 

[Sheol]

Its a Fungia. And a glorious, beautiful find! Again, I'm jealous but I don't have a good home for these!

Matthew

 

[ReefingIt]

One of the nicest fungia I've seen. Nice pickup...certainly don't see this morph often.

 

[SuperNerd]

Do you have solaris lighting?

 

[erichatesmice]

Haha, sorry but it's not for sale.

In fact, that is a solaris lighting fixture. It is the older model, since my tank is pretty shallow.

 

[chrisstie]

I, too, recognized the LEDs- good thing you have that because it might be slightly less colorful without it (yeah, right , as if that were possible, that thing is amazing!)

 

[GoingPostal]

I'm afraid I can't give a good id unless I can see it close up, let me pm you my address and just send it over here, I swear I'll send it back! That thing is beautiful! What a good find, take care of it. Short tentacle by the way.

 

[Runfrumu]

That thing is awesome. I have 1 each of long and short tentacle's. I would love to have one of those, someone ID so I can order one!

 

[erichatesmice]

Thanks for the compliments guys. It seems to be doing well. Expands nicely during the day, deflates at night. Tentacles are big and huge at various times, usually at night. I feed it mysis once a week, and I'm sure it gets some of the zoo/cyclopeeze mixture I stir in twice a week. I think the coolest thing about it is the way it poos... it shoots its poo up almost 8" high so it immediately gets into the overflow. Cool beans.

I'll take better (daytime) pics of it to get an accurate color shot.

 

[prugs]

My lfs has one that looks just like it. He wants $200 for it. He said Julian Sprung wanted to buy it at the Chicago trade show.