RevHtree
Active member
Well I have to share this will all of you. It is too cool not to! LOL! :spin3:
It all started back about 2 years ago now when I purchased a red plate coral. It came up for sale and I had been looking for a long time. The price was so high, but I jumped on it in a sec without prior approval from the wife. I knew it would be gone pretty quick. The price was a stifling $500! I had never spent that kinda money on one coral before but I just had to have it. I promised the wife I would sell frags to make the cost up and I did. I was happy to do so!
Here is what it looked like when I first got it. It wasn't really as red as the vendor pic was, but I loved it anyway.
Here is where the story turns! Fast forward about a year or so. All was well in my tank and everything was thriving, except for one $500 plate coral!
:hmm4:
For some reason the coral begin to recede and all I could do was pray and hope. I ended up watching it die and turn to a complete skeleton. The wife couldn't believe what had happened and of course she let me know about it. God bless her little heart. I had to think of something fast. I told her that I had read about how plate corals will die and then reproduce sometimes and that maybe, just maybe this was happening. :idea: She didn't buy it, and I really didn't either. But in hopes of something happening a shoved it to the side of the tank out of view.
Of course she gave me a hard time about the ugly skeleton in my closet, errr tank and then to beat it all, my best buddies from the local reef club had a hay day making fun of me and my $500 skeleton. I told them to laugh on and when it reproduced they would have no part. They laughed harder!! :lmao:
Well after about 3 months in the tank I noticed that there were little algae looking spots starting to form. Of course everybody said it's algae and it ugly. I thought that they may be right, but alas I held out hope! :rolleye1:
To my delight the algae spots started getting a little bigger and low and behold a few looked like just maybe that has a teeny tiny mouth! :bigeyes:
As a few more weeks went on they started to develop tentacles and start to look like very small plate corals!! :celeb1:
My wife and even my buddies finally got on board and I am happy to say that I am a Father of about 100+ teeny baby plate corals! YEA!!:lolspin:
Now for the pics taken tonight!!
It all started back about 2 years ago now when I purchased a red plate coral. It came up for sale and I had been looking for a long time. The price was so high, but I jumped on it in a sec without prior approval from the wife. I knew it would be gone pretty quick. The price was a stifling $500! I had never spent that kinda money on one coral before but I just had to have it. I promised the wife I would sell frags to make the cost up and I did. I was happy to do so!
Here is what it looked like when I first got it. It wasn't really as red as the vendor pic was, but I loved it anyway.
Here is where the story turns! Fast forward about a year or so. All was well in my tank and everything was thriving, except for one $500 plate coral!
:hmm4:
For some reason the coral begin to recede and all I could do was pray and hope. I ended up watching it die and turn to a complete skeleton. The wife couldn't believe what had happened and of course she let me know about it. God bless her little heart. I had to think of something fast. I told her that I had read about how plate corals will die and then reproduce sometimes and that maybe, just maybe this was happening. :idea: She didn't buy it, and I really didn't either. But in hopes of something happening a shoved it to the side of the tank out of view.
Of course she gave me a hard time about the ugly skeleton in my closet, errr tank and then to beat it all, my best buddies from the local reef club had a hay day making fun of me and my $500 skeleton. I told them to laugh on and when it reproduced they would have no part. They laughed harder!! :lmao:
Well after about 3 months in the tank I noticed that there were little algae looking spots starting to form. Of course everybody said it's algae and it ugly. I thought that they may be right, but alas I held out hope! :rolleye1:
To my delight the algae spots started getting a little bigger and low and behold a few looked like just maybe that has a teeny tiny mouth! :bigeyes:
As a few more weeks went on they started to develop tentacles and start to look like very small plate corals!! :celeb1:
My wife and even my buddies finally got on board and I am happy to say that I am a Father of about 100+ teeny baby plate corals! YEA!!:lolspin:
Now for the pics taken tonight!!
