slasher conch attacks plate coral

[Sk8r]

My favorite coral, Audrey the Bottomless Plate, decided to move a few days ago...wandered right up against the tank glass.

I knew I should have moved her back...naw, I told myself, let be: if she doesn't like being jammed up there, she'll move on.

Wrong. The Tongan conch uses that path. Instead of going under like a civilized conch, he went over, and used his claw doing it.

Ripped a nasty hole right at the edge of the plate's mouth. You can see skeleton.

Well, all I know to do at this point is shift the plate back where she belongs and feed her what she can eat. She is still eating. And I guess we see whether good water and easy food can let her heal up.

Thinking of conch fritters, at this point, but I can only blame myself. Something was saying "Move it back," and I didn't do it. Conches aren't great on awareness.

 

[coralville]

I had the same thing happen to my plate except it was a shrimp that did the damage. My plate couldn't eat (mouth was all ripped up) but it did heal very quickly. IMHO plates are extremely hardy corals.

I didn't purchase my plate, it literally just showed up one day on the sand bed -- I'm assuming as a hitch hiker from my LR.

 

[yardboy]

I had a new Acan tumble right down upon the leader of my fungia flock, burning a big hole in it. After a week I noticed the skeleton there turn pink, and now a month later I see little tentcles peeking out. I think if you have good water, she'll get over the damage quickly.