plate coral wearing away, should i remove from tank

My small tentacle plate coral over the last month and a half has slowly been wearing away...should I remove from the tank, have had over a year, I don't think there is any hope of saving, don't want to mess up tank chemistry...

tank paramaters:

8.4 dkh
420 calcium
5 nitrates
nitrtites not visibile
ph 8.5
mag 1350

tank has been running over a year.

thanks!

 

I myself would just move it to an area of lower light and flow and feed it.

They have an amazing ability to grow new plates and heal. It will not effect your water quaility if it declines further.

Also make sure no goby or shrimp is dumping sand on it.

 

I agree with corailline

 

i've also heard of babies coming out of these things when they do die. Say a month or so down the line you'll have a few baby fungias growing out of the dead mother, as long as you can handle staring at the skeleton for a little while.

 

Ill keep her in just don't want to harm anything...thanks...

 

This is called the Phoenix Effect (i.e. like the phoenix rising up from it's ashes)

 

You should look into getting fine grain sand for the spot you put the plate. This will keep it from damaging its flesh from inflating and deflating and moving around.

 

Here's a fun fact for all you reef keepers out there. In the wild Fungias do not actually sit on the sand bed. I found this out first hand diving a few months back, i came upon a few different "colonies" (i say colonies because were i'd see one, i'd see a couple more very close by) and all of the fungias were actually sitting on the natural rock work in the ocean. This surprised me because for one, they don't attach to the rock, two, i was surprised the current didn't knock them off, and three because it almost looked like they had been placed there. Fun fact finished.

 

Juveniles often do. Then as they mature, they grow a stalk and sit on top of it. They look mushrooms. LOL

I'll try and find a photo