Baby plates

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9 total right now we started off with about 14 or so when we moved.

[Pennies2Cents]

Those may be a group of mushrooms. Plates have a hard skeleton. LPS Coral

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No they are plates they have skeletons and they are growing on an plate skeleton

[Pennies2Cents]

Cute none the less :-)

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Thanks I have been so proud of them since they started growing.

[Pennies2Cents]

How did you get so many in one area? :)

[Paul28]

did you glue them ?

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No we tried to rescue a plate from a friends tank when it was almost dead and where unsuccessful. I read that if a plate dies you can leave it in the tank and it will sprout babies so I left the dead on in the tanks and one day noticed little orange dots all over the dead skeleton and researched more and found out that's how they multiply and they eventually coral crawl off the old plate when they are ready to be on their own

[Paul28]

now thats cool didt know that

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Yeah I googles how to save a plate coral and found a blog about a guy that paid 500 for a plate and his wife was so upset at him because it died shortly after that. The guy couldn't bring himself to throw away the skeleton so he put it in the back corner of the tank an left it alone. About 3 months later he had about 100 little babies all over it.

[SinisterLou]

Thats so cool!!!

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This is them after me blowing the sand off with a turkey baster

[Fishstix@JewelsOfTheSea]

Cute babies, congrats! Lots of mouths to feed! lol.

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Thanks yep I target feed all of them

[Pennies2Cents]

No we tried to rescue a plate from a friends tank when it was almost dead and where unsuccessful. I read that if a plate dies you can leave it in the tank and it will sprout babies so I left the dead on in the tanks and one day noticed little orange dots all over the dead skeleton and researched more and found out that's how they multiply and they eventually coral crawl off the old plate when they are ready to be on their own
Yup .... too cool

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Just always remember keep the dead plate and you might just get babies later down the road

[Tempset]

Just always remember keep the dead plate and you might just get babies later down the road

You should dig up that old link you found to the article showing all those plate coral babies.

It's an interesting read!

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Yeah I have been looking for it and I can't find it :(

[allan]

That is WAY cool.

I didn't know they did that.

[Pennies2Cents]

That is WAY cool.

I didn't know they did that.

Yea, it happens. I completely forgot about the one I got from BStreep a couple years ago. And it did the same thing.. Lots of lil moouths to feed. it was fun...

[LuckySingh]

Very nice

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Thanks I love my babies

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New pic of babies coming soon they are growing more now that we are dosing daily. I have a new count 10 total and one has two mouths :) the pic is having trouble up loading though

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[OrionN]

A lot of the family Fungiidae coral have that mode of asexual reproduction, babies grow from small bits of tissue on a near dead skeleton.

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Here is the babies eating

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Here are the babies today they are growing so well down side it's frustrating waiting or them to walk off the mother lol

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You can see the growth difference from the old pics to the new ones :)

[hobogato]

very cool!

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Thanks ace. There are still 10 on there and the ones in the left seen to grow way faster than the 4 on the right not sure why though I feed them all equal. Just wish they would walk already lol the ones on the right are all squished together and are about the size of a quarter up to a half dollar.

[Southern Flame]

They are awesome

[Scutterborn]

Very cool! Bet it'll be nifty when they all leave the nest


-Ben-

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Yeah I'm hoping that will be soon lol I'm impatient lol

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New pic of the babies

[Southern Flame]

Hurry and get off your mama lol

[SinisterLou]

Wow they've grown.

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Yup just waiting for them to walk lol

[SinisterLou]

How many are there and did they all make it?

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I started off with about 20 or so but when we moved 3 times in one year I lost some. I was down to 10 until I accidentally broke one in half trying to see how big the skeleton was and that one is now 2 so I have a total of 11 :)

[Umiamifan]

The color is awesome!

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Thanks

[SinisterLou]

Any updates on the babies?

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Ok is anyone still wanting to buy one of these babies I have one that has walked and it has 2 mouths

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[Dean]

Very nice!

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These are the newest pics

3 baby's have walked finally lol

[Francis]

How much?


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$50 for the first one with one mouth and $70 for the second one with 2 mouths

[slm222]

this gives me a lot of hope. I just bought a big green plate and it died. I had read they might make babies. I hope so. cause it was a great looking plate.

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It can take a while sometimes they do sometimes they don't. Good luck and if they sprout it's so fun watching them grow