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Old 08-15-2009, 01:01 AM
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Hey guys!

i just bought a new neon orange plate coral and
was wondering if anyone has any tips for me.

my calcium levels are 410 and my salinity is 1.021.

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Increase your salinity to 1.025 (but do it slowly). What are your other water parameters like? ie Alkalinity, Magnesium, Nitrate and Phosphate.

They are slow growing however spot feeding meaty food like mysis might help with growth. Can move if they want to by inflating and deflating. Better situated in the sandbed and not in the rockwork. Will shed off sand if slightly burried. If something happens and you think its dead never throw out the skeleton. Many people have reported new buds/polyps forming from seemingly dead fungia skeletons long after it had 'died'.

Congrats, it looks like mine. People are always asking me where I got it and if I can sell or frag it for them...

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Looks like that burning eye thing from lord of the rings.
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nitrate is-20
phosphate-0.25
Ph- 8.2
magnesium & alkalinitly i just ran out of text kits but ill get one asap..

And i was quite supprized on the price of mine..

its vibrant orange and it was only 30 bucks! hah
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And im not sure but is there any reason my fish(panther grouper, lions and squarrl fish) would be going after my plate coral??

cause i was passing my tank and noticed thats what they were doing,,

i know they wernt hungreyy cause i had fed them about an hour earlyer..
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What do you mean they were 'going after'? Are they biting at it? Did the plate coral have some food in its mouth that they wanted? Fish are always hungry. Some will easily over-eat themselves to death if food is present.
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They need to be on the sand and under MH Light. They will move around a lot so make sure they do not touch another coral.
They need to be fed so spot feed them pieces of fresh by dropping it with tongs in their mouth while keeping the fish buy chasing mysis.
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the grouper was activly picking it up with its mouth and droping it..

i moved it into one of my other tanks already...
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Here is mine and he's hungry!

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