Coral ID

[DontXtripNfall]

The thing in the center of the pic... it reminds me of a blasto but it has tiny sweeper tentacles. I know its from Tonga... Any help is appreciated!

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[littlebuck70]

Looks to me like a mini plate

 

[tosiek]

Try to get the pictures in jpeg. =0)


Looks like a hitchhiker fungia plate, the ones that grow like mushrooms with a stem. Dunno the exact name but its a start. I can take a picture of mine if you want its pretty much the same.

 

[DontXtripNfall]

Thats cool! Thanks guys.. Ok Tony I'll keep that in mind for when I update my Tank Thread.. Yeah if you wouldn't mind I'd ike seeing pics.. I totally didn't notice it until I got home from NACL.. Leo let me cut off a branch of rock that had a tiny awesome red mushroom (I wonder if they got sold, b/c they were bright and no one picked it up that day) Geuss I have some research to do!

 

[Aquatic Life Direct]

yup... baby fungia.... we have one at the store as well that we are growing... ours is green.

 

[DontXtripNfall]

Mine has a greenish tint but its pretty transparent so I'm not sure what to call it.. Its stuck to the rock I think is there a way to transfer it somewhere else for when the mushroom grows bigger?

 

[cowfish]

If it is a baby fungia then let it grow a bit. After it gets a little bigger the "stem" will be easy to break and then you can put it anywhere you want.

 

[DontXtripNfall]

Thanks cowfish!

I've been trying to search but I can't find the answer to why some plates are a nice round shape and some are mis-shaped and not always completely flat.. I assume its how their environment was when they were growing but does anyone have the facts?

 

[littlebuck70]

Here are a few of mine. Usually when they get about the size of a dime you can pop them off and hook them on to something else.

 

[DontXtripNfall]

Once I take mine off will the rock continue to make more baby plates? I've read on another thread about someone saying that a rock pops out baby plates in the same spot every so often I guess..

 

[littlebuck70]

I have an actual skeleton plate that had like 15 babies on it. They still come back every once in a while.

 

[m'akoyPINOY]

Once I take mine off will the rock continue to make more baby plates? I've read on another thread about someone saying that a rock pops out baby plates in the same spot every so often I guess..

nice find!yeah i read that thread on nano reefs she feed mysis to the baby plate.every time i go to a lfs i'm always on the looked out for one.:splitspin

 

[DontXtripNfall]

lol it was on the red mushrooms right next to the yellow leather, how is it doing btw? it was just a coincidence that i got it... just goes to show Leo gets good stuff!