Moving Plate Coral

[nordy]

Here's a pic of my big ol' plate coral. A couple of times recently I have found that it has changed positions and slid a couple of inches out of it's corner, putting a move on the green brain coral to the right. I didn't think these things would move, but this one has. It's getting so big I am thinking of finding a new home for the two brains in the south 40 just to give it more room. I love that purple mouth!
Sorry-just noticed that the pic didn't upload for some reason and I can't get it to work?

 

[nycbob]

plate corals do move.

 

[cal559]

Originally Posted by nycbob
http:///forum/post/2878850
plate corals do move.
+1 They do move and make sure to place it on the sand bed with no rocks under it because it will rip it apart when moving itself...

 

[petjunkie]

Only some seem to move, I have a purple rim one that never moves, my orange one moves a little and I had a green one that crawled all over the place.

 

[jeanheckle]

If they are happy they won't move. If they aren't they inflate and move themselves.

 

[petjunkie]

How do we know they are moving because they are "unhappy"? Maybe they are bored.

Corals don't have emotions. My purple plate that never moves is the worst looking one of the bunch, never inflates, no tentacles, gapes, doesn't feed. The orange one puffs up huge, eats anything, doesn't move even when flow is obviously an issue to it but every once in a while moves, usually when another coral is nearby. The green one puffed up quite a bit, ate pretty well and almost every morning crawled forward onto the orange plate and once the other way into an acan.

 

[jeanheckle]

How do we know they are moving because they are "unhappy"? Maybe they are bored.

Corals don't have emotions. /QUOTE]
I did not mean unhappy as an emotion...I meant no happy with placement or water quality and in those instances they do move. But thank you for mocking me! This is a forum where I may agree or disagree with anothers opinion but I always treat that opinion with respect.

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by petjunkie
http:///forum/post/2883366
How do we know they are moving because they are "unhappy"? Maybe they are bored.

Corals don't have emotions. /QUOTE]
I did not mean unhappy as an emotion...I meant no happy with placement or water quality and in those instances they do move. But thank you for mocking me! This is a forum where I may agree or disagree with anothers opinion but I always treat that opinion with respect.
I am sure you dont need me to defend you but I just thought I would add
An emotion is a term for a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior. Behavior the key word so if our corals behave in a certin way, retreating with the absence of light for instance could we not say they have emotion

 

[nacl freak]

here is a plate that had been in the same place for over a year, when it move up and over a rock.

 

[petjunkie]

Originally Posted by jeanheckle
http:///forum/post/2883596
I did not mean unhappy as an emotion...I meant no happy with placement or water quality and in those instances they do move. But thank you for mocking me! This is a forum where I may agree or disagree with anothers opinion but I always treat that opinion with respect.
Just pointing out that everyone says they move because they are "unhappy" about something and really I have never seen evidence of this. Plates just move around, who knows why. Most of mine only move towards other corals and end up attacking or being attacked but sometimes they just crawl a few inches one way or the other. I don't say they only move to attack corals because that's not consistent either.