So the pics I am showing here are of a plate coral that started out as a small budling from some live rock that came from another tank. The friend who gave me this tank never purchased a plate coral this coral came from the natural live rock. A year or so later when he gave the tank to me, a small green coral started to grow out of the stock in the rock, at first it looked like a trumpet coral, but as the coral matured it got larger in diameter. One day I was working on the tank and I bumped it ever so gently, well that seem to be all it needed to unattach from its steam to start its new live on the sand of my aquarium. To my surprise there were two more baby plate corals growing underneath the main coral, it looks to me like I lucked out and have a little plate coral factory going on in my tank, and the best part of it is there are all American home grown corals right from a simple 10g grow out tank....Man life is amazing!! here are some pics enjoy.
Charlie
Charlie