orange plate coral

The burn that it got from the Joe's Juice on top of the stress of acclimating to a new environment may have caused the coral to bleach. Put it on the sandbed before it "jumps" off the rock and injures itself in the process. Tangster and I were able to bring a green plate coral back from the brink after a friend of ours gave it to us to "save" so there's definitely a chance that it will color back up for you. Just keep feeding it and put it on the sand.

 

good luck with your plate jeremy. hope it comes back for you. and a quick learning question , is there a specific reason that ceratin corals do way better on the sand? is it because of the "food" thats down there for them?

 

In the case of the plate coral, the sand is its "natural" environment and since they do move around (by inflating and deflating their bodies), it's best to put them on the sand as they can fall off of rockwork while in the process of moving.

 

so it would be the same case for brains and acans? and not meaning to hijack the thread, but i figure these questions here are pertinant and informational.

 

Many Acan's are just fine in the rockwork. When it comes to brain corals....um, wow. What do you mean by brain? Platygyra, Plerogyra, Lobophora, scolymia, cyanaria, symphyllia, diploria, favia, favites, montrastrea, and many, many more. That's why I hate common names. People ask, "my brain coral doesn't look good, Why?" Well, what kind of a brain coral is it? "I don't know" is almost always the answer. Many "brain" corals are fine in the rock work and many aren't.

 

ty curt. in this case was just asking in general, but i fully understand what you mean by being unspecific. and how it can drive one crazy in certain cases. lol

 

Ok, so I put the plate coral on the sand. I also soaked mysis shrimp in selcon and fed it (and all my other corals) - not sure if it ate, though. I also added some Seachem Reef Plus - can't hurt, right? I'll keep you up to date on the progress.

 

update?

 

Update - so after 2 days on the sand with target mysis feeding (with selcon), no real change in colour yet. The plate coral is definitely still alive. Its tentacles are still coming out, and it looks like it is eating the mysis, but who knows? I may get some frozen krill, which I hear plates like to eat a lot. More updates to come.

 

One last update - gave the plate coral some frozen mysis this morning - it ate it up like a pig! Coolest thing I've ever seen how the tentacles shove the shrimp into the mouth which sucks down the shrimp like spaghetti. Let's put it this way - it is definitely alive, and eating with gusto. Hopefully the orange colour will return soon. BTW, the Joe's Juice burn is also shrinking.