Long Tentacle Plate Coral Care

[tomjof]

I had a question about a LT plate coral. I heard that they are harder to keep alive in a tank than the normal short tentacle plates. Why are they harder and should I just buy a short tentacle plate instead of the long tentacle plate.

 

[Adamc1303]

They aren't hard to keep. They are very comparable to torches and frogspawns in reference to flow.

 

[tomjof]

I heard that they only live for like 6 months

 

[bonomo53]

from my own experience and people i talk to they tend to just die for no reason, similar to gonis

 

[tomjof]

okay thats good to know. i want things that live forever

 

[PeteTheGreek89]

i had mine for a month or two, it was doing great and i was also spot feeding and one day it just started bleaching in 1 week it was gone

 

[tomjof]

I think it has something to do with them running out of their stored food supply. weird