SPS Keepers-anyone seeing a spawning event in their tanks?

[smallblock]

Acroholic;574024 wrote: Hi Blake,
Sorry but no pics. They would have looked just like bubbles, but upon closer inspection white and round.

Thats cool Dave, Just a really cool event. I would have loved to see it.

 

[acroholic]

Smallblock;574030 wrote: Thats cool Dave, Just a really cool event. I would have loved to see it.

It is neat now that I think I know what was causing it. I have seen calcium carbonate precipitation in a reef tank one other time, and they look like snowflakes, not tiny spheres.

From a practical standpoint, if your corals or clams are spawning, the main danger, IMO, in a reef tank is an ammonia spike from the eggs/sperm decaying in the water since we have such a small water volume in our systems.

I use 100 micron filter socks, so I'll rinse them out every day for a couple days just in case they have caught a lot of the stuff.

 

[enderg60]

I had a similar event shortly after setting my new tank up. I found out after a bit of looking that it was my large green brain that was doing it(would pulse out a jet of love goo every 10 sec or so), and that appeared to be it. Clouded my tank up for a full day, skimmer went nuts and that was about it.

 

[jmaneyapanda]

EnderG60;574046 wrote: I had a similar event shortly after setting my new tank up. I found out after a bit of looking that it was my large green brain that was doing it(would pulse out a jet of love goo every 10 sec or so), and that appeared to be it. Clouded my tank up for a full day, skimmer went nuts and that was about it.

LPS are often known for jettisoning their "surplus" zooxanthellae this way too. It is often confused for spawning. Coral;s spawning i captivity is not frequent, but not rare either. Sperm is not commonly pollutive, whereas the eggs are significantly larger, and can be readily seen.

 

[enderg60]

if it was zooxanthellae from a green brain wouldnt the cloud be green?

 

[acroholic]

EnderG60;574046 wrote: I had a similar event shortly after setting my new tank up. I found out after a bit of looking that it was my large green brain that was doing it(would pulse out a jet of love goo every 10 sec or so), and that appeared to be it. Clouded my tank up for a full day, skimmer went nuts and that was about it.

I think that is awsome!

 

[jmaneyapanda]

EnderG60;574063 wrote: if it was zooxanthellae from a green brain wouldnt the cloud be green?

Nope. The color of the corals have nothing to do with the colors of zooxanthellae.

Im not saying it was or wasnt in your, case, I just know too many people mistake one for the other.

 

[oz]

Didn't Joe have a spawning event around the same time last year. Something to do with the moon cycle or something as a few other RC'ers saw it that same night I think.