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Plate Coral Care
I picked up a neon green with purple rim plate coral today. Or rather, it will hopefully be neon green someday.
I purchased it from Pisces, and it has been in their back coral tanks forever. I'm pretty sure I've been humming and hawing about this coral for months. I don't know why I finally decided on it today, but I did. Should have bought it when I first saw it, as it is a pain in the arse now. The lighting in those tanks is crummy. I've given the coral a drip acclimation, and it is now in my system. I've turned off the lights. I'll turn the Blue+ on in a half hour, and coral+ and purple+ on in an hour. I've got it sitting in the lowest light area in my tank. How should I go about acclimating it to my systems light? It is four 36" t5s over a 36x18x16 tank: not a high light system, but a lot more light than what this coral is accustomed too. |
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start it down at the lowest place you can , low light and feed it . it will take meaty foods. slowly move it to brighter light. i wouldnt blast top high and center:P |
Should I shorten my light cycle, do you think?
Pisces must run around a 12 hour light cycle, which is what I'm running. I've never been in their when they didn't have their tank lights in. I'm not sure it is actually possible to blast something with the lights I'm running, but I'd rather not find out. Edit: I could slide my frag rack over too. It is one of e transparent plexi ones. That would reduce the light a little. |
Hey Enigma,
I got a plate back in June and it's doing great . Here's what i did: Placed him on the substrate not directly under my leds after acclimitation I didn't dim my lights at all as they are pretty hardy that way from what i have read. After about a week i moved him more in the center of my tank to get more bright lighting. Mine is a frag in the shape of a pie cut with 2 mouths so i have allot of work to get him full. Lol Once a week i give it 2 pieces of misis shrimp to eat on and it's definitely grown since. I just kept up with my normal chemistry and it's been fine. Oh and remember they are pretty aggressive, so keep them a bit of a distance from a coral that might touch it. |
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It may surprize you the size of "meaty treats" these thing can eat. I had one several years ago that ate a whole mandarin. |
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I think this one is small enough that it can't eat my fish. I think. I hope. I figure my Twin Spot is at greatest risk, but if he covers the plate in sand maybe he deserves it. ;)
I just dosed the tank with Pohl's Coral Vitalizer, and then fed the tank ArctiPods. I saw some slight puffiness in the plate, but it was barely noticeable. I'll feed it some mysis in a little while. |
Plate corals are also able to remove sand from on top of themselfs :biggrin:
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Zero feeding response.
Should I just wait a couple more days and try again? How much in the in the way of nutrients will this coral take in from the water column? I just dosed Fuel and Microvert yesterday. Plus, I tend to be a little heavy handed when it comes to feeding mysis and ArctiPods. It is looking okay at this point. The rim is noticeably purple, and while the green certainly doesn't constitute "neon," some of the centre of the plate has coloured up quite a bit and is obviously green (though about 30% of the plate is still more brown than green). |
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