Show your plate corals!

[E.intheC]

As the title states. Show your plates!:wavehand:

 

[romsoccer12]

im excited for this! ive been wwanting to start a thread with plates for a while. ill post mine tomorrow once i get a pic

 

[iLLwiLL]

here's a super crappy cell phone pic I snapped of this monster at a LFS, I went back in the morning to pick it up.

~Will.

 

[E.intheC]

that's a nice long tentacle plate! They're super tough to keep alive though, unfortunately. I've seen some really nice purple and blue short tentacle plates lately.

 

[Phillybean]

This is my first coral. Now about a year and a half old.

 

[whatcaneyedo]

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Here it is in all its glory, but I'll get a better pic tomorrow. The color has gotten better and has started to fill in since I first got it. There are streaks of green and orange also starting to appear as well.

Here is what it looked like in '07 when it was first imported, it is working its way back to looking like this:

 

[JokerGirl]

I've got a dead plate coral that is sprouting babies all of the sudden that I will try to get photos of tonight. It's been dead for about a year and a half now.

 

[spw4949]

That's an awesome looking plate Bongo....

 

[Jacwil]

Got this one a cpl weeks ago...I am amazed how large they can swell up...our 2 1/2 yr old daughter asked me if it would 'Pop, pop dad-EE?" lol

 

[TwistedEnvy]

ALERT: Crappy pic ahead. Nothing spectacular but...

Baby about the size of a quarter....ate a bristle worm Saturday Morning...

 

[whatcaneyedo]

I've got a dead plate coral that is sprouting babies all of the sudden that I will try to get photos of tonight. It's been dead for about a year and a half now.

I've often heard of that happening. It seems to be quite common actually although I havent experienced it myself. I'd definitely like to see some pictures!

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

That's an awesome looking plate Bongo....

Thanks, I had always wanted one like this and couldn't believe it when I finally got my hands on one.

 

[JokerGirl]

I've often heard of that happening. It seems to be quite common actually although I havent experienced it myself. I'd definitely like to see some pictures!

It's partly why I kept the skeleton around was because I knew that they could regenerate out of no where like this.

I originally thought that they were a mini carpet anemone that had floated off and attached there. There had actually been two of them, but the one spent the last week or so detaching itself, which is when I saw that they weren't mini carpets since it had a skeleton underneath.

You can see the leftover skeleton in front of the remaining one. I assume I'll probably find a random plate growing in the back of my tank eventually.

These were taken under my actinics only, so please excuse the bad quality.

 

[teetimefun]

 

[somdinwong]

i like that red one. never seen anything like that

 

[somdinwong]

i just cut mine into 6 pieces. 3 survived and three did not. okay though because now i have three instead of 1

 

[romsoccer12]

joker girl, what color was your dead one? that baby is honestly going to look amazing! i may kill my plate just to get some babies like that haha

 

[JokerGirl]

joker girl, what color was your dead one? that baby is honestly going to look amazing! i may kill my plate just to get some babies like that haha

I honestly don't know. The parent coral was very bleached out, but I could tell it had been a beauty at one time from the colour that was left on it. I got it for $5, so I figured it was worth a chance of trying to save it.

The bleached parent was light pink with purple rims aroudn the outside and mouth.

 

[TwistedEnvy]

That baby looks awesome. My baby up there is now the size of a quarter and I bought it off ebay (hellloooo that is where the pic is from ). It looks sweet to me because it is sparkley! I'm a sucker for sparkles.