Trevor, How's the Plate Coral Doing?

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Trevor Robertson

As far as the plate goes well it does look like it is coming around I have been slowly feeding it and it is plumping up a bit, the fingers (not knowing what they are really called but you all know what I am talking about) are still very stunded and dark brown but I am hoping that it will come to what I have seen on some other pictures on the net. The mouth does open very quickly when I feed the fish.

The brown fingers, as you describe them, don't get really long. When healthy and at the size the plate is now, about 2.5 - 3", the fingers will be less than a quarter of an inch long. It's these fingers that catch the food, then move the food toward the mouth.

If it's not plumping up very much, you may need more light. And, really, they don't plump up like, say, a bubble coral or anything, so you may be expecting something from the animal that it wouldn't do anyway.