Long tip plate coral, ID and question?

[matt2364]

Can anyone tell me the name of these long tip plate coral? Would it be good to spot feed these, if so, how often? I spot fed it mysis shrimp today and it immediately ate. Anything else special I should know about these?

 

[morval]

cant help with exact ID but u should deffinatly keep spot feeding it every few days mine will eat like half a cube of mysis in one sitting its a pig!

 

[nacl freak]

I feed mine once a week with cyclopeze, oyster eggs and finely chopped seafood. He has doubled in size . It looks like a yellow plate, but that's just a guess. BTW they will move on their own.Just this week mine actually ate my mandrian

 

[matt2364]

Originally Posted by nacl freak
http:///forum/post/2537470
BTW they will move on their own.Just this week mine actually ate my mandrian

WHAT!?!!? That is insane! Did you at least get to watch? I would be so disappointed to see a mandarin go, but maybe worthwhile if you get to watch at least.
What else have they been known to eat? Will they eat snails, hermits, etc if they crawl on top of it? Are there tenicles sticky to capture their prey or are they just strong or something?

 

[nacl freak]

Yes

I did see the entire fish in it's mouth! mouth was mostly closing around fish.

Found out LTPC do not like chinese for dinner. The next morning his mouth was wide open trying to expel mandrian back out

[bit off more than he could chew]

I did remove the fish and ltpc is now

 

[matt2364]

Can you over feed a ltpc? If I where to spot feed it a little each day would that be too much?
Also, should I spot feed my umbrella mushroom. I gave it a try yesterday and to my surprise the mushroom closed right up and ate!

 

[blownz281]

I have heard these corals are short lived and hard to keep in aquariums? what is needed to keep them alive? is 96watts of T5 HO enough light for one? feeding would be no problem to do. LT plates are awesome and just saw two at a petstore a hr away this weekend.

 

[dragonzim]

Dont know the exact ID, but these are not very long lived in the aquarium. I had gotten one a few months ago. It did great for a while, I spot fed it 2-3 times a week and then about 2 months after I got it it just deflated and died. It was a bare skeleton in less than a day. All water parameters were find and my other corals were still thriving.

 

[matt2364]

My plate coral has closed up to about 1/4 the size it usually does and the tenacles have all retracted. Why is it doing this? Is something wrong?