Help I think Coral spawned
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it also depends on the size of the release versus the size of the bacteria/filtration system. One 3 inch coral will do nothing to a 240 gallon tank (well, hopefully, or you are screwed either way), vs a cluster of acros that make up 300% of his tank in bioload when spawning.
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People are not making the approriate differentiation in coral reprduction. Joe had a spawning, where males corals likely released sperm, and females eggs. The big white dots are the coral eggs. These are not baby corals. They need to be fertilized, settle, and then grown. This is very rare in home aquaria, and is actually a testament to Joes tank. What a lot of poeple are describing about their corals is not spawning, but a type of asexual reproduction, likely from fragmentation, or poyp bailout. Pocillopora is well known for polyp bailout, where the coral will "eject" a polyp, it will settle on something, and then grow into a colony. VERY different that spawning. Ask Raj about polyp bailout and pocillopora. His big tank was COVERED with it from this exact event.
I agree with Jeremy. I am not sure which corals the eggs came from it could have been the sps which make up 90% of my corals, ether of two Favias, and or a large acan hillae. I guess it does not matter but I wish I could have seen which one it was and would have loved to take some pictures.
Anyhow I was concerned because I had made some changes to my tank by moving some rock around and feared that it might have been brought on by something negative rather then something good. (I thought that maybe I caused a ammonia spike from stirring up the detritus in the sand bed along with the skimmer not working) I tested for ammonia with two different test kits that night and both read zero. Now that it seems to be somewhat in time with wild corals I feel better.
The skimmer is working now but was not for at least the day before it happen if not two days. It is not normal for it to act that way and led me to take it apart to see what may be causing it.
All seems well so I am a happy camper.
Joe
Anyhow I was concerned because I had made some changes to my tank by moving some rock around and feared that it might have been brought on by something negative rather then something good. (I thought that maybe I caused a ammonia spike from stirring up the detritus in the sand bed along with the skimmer not working) I tested for ammonia with two different test kits that night and both read zero. Now that it seems to be somewhat in time with wild corals I feel better.
The skimmer is working now but was not for at least the day before it happen if not two days. It is not normal for it to act that way and led me to take it apart to see what may be causing it.
All seems well so I am a happy camper.
Joe
I have no clue what caused the skimmer to act like that. I was thinking it may have something to do with it, like they started emitting hormones or something crazy to communicate with each other. I will not pretend to know what or how all this works but the skimmer thing was unusual so I thought if someone else had experienced this it may have happened to them as well.
I have heard of it happening for others but no one seems to be responding to some other threads I started on RC and the like.
Joe
I have heard of it happening for others but no one seems to be responding to some other threads I started on RC and the like.
Joe
