Plate Coral Babies!!!!

[holabird]

I thought my plate coral was pretty much a goner. It kept getting covered up by my convict goby and looked dead. Then as I was moving things around, it found it was covered with what I think are babies, for lack of a better term. There are over a hundred of them. What now?
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[markl]

Just enjoy and collect money when they get bigger.

 

[heyitsmirix3]

The scolly we scrambled is starting to form babies. It'll be a while before it gets that size

 

[1mbrews8]

i have one that did the same thing!

 

[jennm]

How neat is that?!

Jenn

 

[fishlips]

What size are we talking about. I have one that is about 5 " wide. Hope mine will do the same

 

[gordob]

Mine did the same thing! I thought it was dead, and then all of a sudden, I had a ton of them! They will either break off on their own, or you can help them along and pop off one head at a time. That will actually help them grow, in my experience. If you have bone cutters, just cut where the skeleton is. My frags have done very well since I did that. (Give it a shot on one to see what happens.)

You may want to glue the one you cut off to some rubble or a frag plug, because it will get blown around in your tank otherwise.

- Brad