Show your plate corals!

[Reloadeddevil]

Here are mine.

 

[milesofreefs]

ok so i asked this in a thread and had no answers. do plate corals split? my orange plate has two mouths.

 

[Sebastian J.]

do plate corals split?

No, they don't split. As far as I know, they propagate asexually by "dripping" - it looks like small blobs of tissue melt off the sides of the coral, which then form tiny tiny little new corals.
Another strategy is the growth of so-called Anthocauli, which are "flower stalks" growing out from a mother colony, often when it is already dead or at least damaged - that's what JokerGirl posted earlier in this thread. At the top of the stalks, new plates will develop and grow, until they finally break off and settle on their own. The Anthocaulos can then often grow yet another new plate, and so on. So never throw dead plates away, because they might turn into a plate factory.

 

[milesofreefs]

Ok so do they often grow two mouths?

 

[SaltwaterAdict]

Orange Fungia

 

[paraletho]

Speaking of anthocauli here is a series of shots from a hitchhiker. It isnt a spectacular piece but was interesting to watch.

Fragged it out of the zoas and mounted to an oyster shell. As it grew it took on a purple hue.

Then one day it detached it self and within a week you could se the green of a new baby plate forming in the detachment site.

 

[wildman926]

 

[paraletho]

Heres the little one today. Gonna grow up to look just like momma. well since it is basically a clone Gonna grow up to look just like itself.

 

[Friday Night]

+1 on no splitting but as you can see on my red fungia thier is a baby about to pop off the mother and land and grow somewhere else in the tank. Spawning....

 

[kc350twin]

Here is the plate I just got off of eBay.
The coloring is slightly different from the eBay seller.
I run the lights a little more white.

Sorry all I have is a iPhone for pics.

 

[jbonez]

do the plate fungai like to be at the sand bed i have a m.h fixture what about lighting

 

[intljock]

Here's my new Yellow One

Here's my new Yellow One

Got it at Reefapalooza in Costa Mesa on Saturday. It's about 2-inches in diameter and cost me $200.00 (a hundred bucks an inch!)

Have it down on the sandbed under my AI Sols. He love's him some krill and mysis shrimp and moves the food with his tentacles into his mouth. YUM!

 

[jbonez]

very nice

 

[nova65ss]

My orange and green babies

 

[powderbluu]

here is mine...

 

[Texsun]

Got it at Reefapalooza in Costa Mesa on Saturday. It's about 2-inches in diameter and cost me $200.00 (a hundred bucks an inch!)

It was $250 early on Saturday. You got a deal, lol!

 

[tnyr5]

crappy pic but here's my sunset plate

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[aandfsoccr04]

Long tentacle anybody?

 

[jr973]

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:

That is 1 sick lookin plate that must have cost a pretty penny

 

[jbonez]

heres mine
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh67/jbonez2008/GEDC0523.jpg