Plate Coral Care Tips - Fungia, Cycloseris, Diaseris, Lithophyllon, etc.

[@Sim1991eon]

I have a plate coral that was practically dead (due to copper in the water). The flesh had pealed off and it looked asif there was only a white skeleton left. After about 1 month of just leaving the "dead" coral in the tank I noticed its mouth starting to open. It has fully recovered since then and is doing great!

[@maceysdaddy5150]

As usual Than has spoiled us with his knowledge and breathtaking images. Amazing video on a coral family I love. Thanks Than!

[@tidalgardens]

Our pleasure!

[@elslick]

Man, These coral spotlights are kickin. Great cinematography, knowledge, and tips for each spacific corals. Keep it up.

[@tidalgardens]

Glad you like them!

[@Alex_Correa]

Heliofungia might need brighter light the usually is offered. This video is amazing! Thanks very much for the time you spend making them, Than!

[@jelly1789]

Just getting into the hobby, and dont know much. Really Glad i found you videos, Thanks so much for making these.

[@tidalgardens]

Glad you like them!

[@AaronHendu]

These have always been one of my favs...the way the can take large pieces of squid or krill that you can hand feed them, the way they can pass the food from the outside of the disk to the mouth in the center pretty quickly, and the awesome colours they come in, too. The second coral I ever bought (over 15 years ago) was a huge orange plate that I absolutely loved and sat right at the front of my tank.

[@Entety303]

These corals got me in the hobby!

[@KingQuetzal]

Love mine, doing great. be careful if it bumps up on the glass I had to move mine as it was slowly deteriorating after moving into the glass.

[@step_johns]

I absolutely love plate corals, they are my favorite coral. I currently have four and they have been doing great in my bare bottom tank. While doing a water change I did catch some of the flesh of my orange plate coral and it has been slowing dying back and losing flesh ever since. I am hoping that given time it will make a comeback. Super disheartening to see flesh slowly falling off. Also a note on peppermint shrimp. I had a big issue with them picking at the polyps of my plate corals. They left everything else along but loved to eat the plate coral.

[@juliuscaesar2792]

Lots of good info, I learned alot.

[@RogueAquariums]

Great info for sustaining these beauties in your tank. Thanks Than

[@waterlover]

Good watching for sure

[@saltymanos]

Thanks for posting Dan!

[@TheDancing0wind]

@tidalgardens inverse square law is for point like light sources. Our lighting fixtures are definitely NOT point like - they have reflectors that shape light.

[@absolutecarrot4191]

Great video

[@tidalgardens]

Thanks!

[@michaelisakov1108]

How is your photography tank setup? Maybe you can do a video showing setup and different parts, as well as ways to photograph using the setup.

[@tidalgardens]

Stay tuned, Becka is putting together a video all about photography technique.

[@michaelisakov1108]

@@tidalgardens I hope the video includes your photo tank setup :-)

[@elslick]

@@tidalgardens Thank you, for not keeping all your tips and trick hush hush and sharing your knowledge and experience.

[@samw6945]

Just purchased a neon green plate coral . After watching this video I want a naked clownfish lol. Thanks again for all this info

[@volteface69]

Merci pour ta vidéo !!! 👍👍👍

[@mikenelson571]

I have a plate that's been popping off baby plates for a few years now, I've gotten 40-50 babies over the years.

[@bettinico]

holy!!

[@fredd4438]

That’s phenomenal!

[@elizabethdiaz8001]

It will be nice if you share any personal tips from that fantastic experience 👍🙂. It will be much appreciated.!

[@cantusaurus8530]

I got a green one recently and it looked good for the first few days and then all of the sudden didn’t look good, it doesn’t open up, and I can see some of its skeleton, it hasn’t gotten worse (not too much worse at least) I’ve done an iodine dip, and it seems to be hanging in there, I think the mouth got damaged or something, and I don’t think I can feed it as a result. So I’m just hoping I can revive it, it still has a bit of color under blue which is a good sign, and it hasn’t worsened, but hasn’t gotten better either, so maybe another iodine dip and time to heal with help

[@bobbobert5396]

Can anyone identify what the large purple overhanging coral is at the 4:32 mark?

[@rafipratama3638]

thats a purple montipora

[@CheapRidesAutoSales]

You forgot the music Than.

[@patytrico]

Thank you! :)

[@Algaewarrior]

Never knew lithophyllon was a "plate" coral. That explains why my 24k litho has barely encrusted over the plug. I have it in a higher light/flow environment. I will definitely be moving it soon.

[@Syed5y]

How is it now?

[@Algaewarrior]

@@Syed5y since I moved it to a lower light area it has been doing phenomenal. Still a slower grower but so much happier near the sand bed. In 3 years it’s almost covered a 4”x4” rock.

[@Syed5y]

@@Algaewarrior i just brought a frag because it looked nice but could hardly find any info on it

[@Algaewarrior]

@@Syed5y you definitely came to the right place. I still reference these videos if I haven’t had a certain type of coral in a while👍

[@Syed5y]

@@Algaewarrior thanks alot

[@rossco19801]

i love my bright orange plate coral , but since ive had it its never opened , or extended, it does eat its in low flow , on the substrate with redsea reef led90s , ive noticed the high points around it mouth have started to slightly go black , any ideas ?

[@TheBobby416]

Thank You

[@strat1960s]

Can you provide a PAR range???

[@AC273]

If your plate coral dies, don't remove the skeleton from your tank. In a couple months you should see babies sprout from the skeleton. My original plate coral came in on a piece of live rock. It didn't like its new home and died. I put its skeleton on the sand bed and it sprouted 3 babies. I cut the skeleton around each baby and now have 3 plate corals.

[@Merknilash]

I've heard this is only certain kinds and it can be hard to know if you have that kind or not.

[@Merknilash]

I have found that these plate corals are very fussy and once they start dying, that's it - they're goners. You absolutely can't have sand sifters with plate corals because they will - at some point - spit sand on these corals, and just a few hours of being buried in sand will kill it. Going to leave the skeletons in and see if they sprout buds but I'm not expecting it to happen.

[@lear31awalker48]

I use 1liter bottles with the bottoms cut out, and place over my plates be for feeding. This keeps everyone Shrimp, Fish from stealing the food till they are done feeding.

[@RobBoryckiGolf]

Love my plate coral thanks than

[@fuffoon]

I am a big fan of these other than the helios. They look to much like anemones or euphyllia. I like the thin cycloceris that inflate to Whopper size at night.

[@willd5377]

My plate was glued/encrusted to a frag plug. I feel kinda bad for it

[@gabesreef]

👍

[@ChrisAce1661]

Has anyone ever tried to graft 2 plates together?

[@jeremiahbrunkala]

This is one of my favorite coral. The coral placed itself in a position next to a rock, which frozen mysis always passed by when feeding my fish. This coral is a pig.

[@radicalpaddyo]

Sarlacc corals!

[@kayjoe7237]

Where’s the girl ??? I want her back !!!

[@123AshWade]

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[@angryowlaquariums40]

I beat 2peas here!