something strange is happening

[blout]

ive just done a 30ltr water change and moved the power heads so they a facing an new direction, the thing is ive started a what i think is a spawning of loads of green eggs. they seem to be coming out in strings , one string approx 15 dots long and come out side by side like this
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[TBLightningFan]

ive just done a 30ltr water change and moved the power heads so they a facing an new direction, the thing is ive started a what i think is a spawning of loads of green eggs. they seem to be coming out in strings , one string approx 15 dots long and come out side by side like this
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It sounds like you could be right on the egg thing. But I'm no expert on that one

 

[blout]

is there anybody that knows (the fish liked to eat them)

 

[1152 Flying Fish]

sorry, cant help.

 

[blout]

does any of this sound right i got it from google In article <1532-at-celia.UUCP> celia!steve-at-usc.edu (Steve Tyree) writes:
>In article <3185-at-dove.nist.gov> rosentha-at-bldrdoc.gov (Peter Rosenthal 303-497-5844) writes:
>>"How do Planktonic Larvae Know Where to Settle?"
>>Author: Aileen N.C. Morse
>>American Scientist
>>Vol. 79 No. 2 Mar-Apr 1991
>>Page 154
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>>The article describes some research demonstrating and identifying the
>>chemical specificity of various larvae of Abalone, worms and corals
>>when they choose substrates. Apparently, red coralline algae are
>>absolutely required for the larvae to stick and transform into
>>the sessile forms. Some planktonic larvae are specific to
>>only one species of red coralline algae.
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>>The article has a fairly large bibliography.
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>>Getting a specific coral to reproduce sexually in captivity may
>>be very difficult if they require a certain substrate with
>>particular biochemical markers. On the other hand, if you
>>know what the required substrate is, and you have it on
>>hand, then you might be able to raise buttloads of polyps. sorry

 

[1152 Flying Fish]

so, you think you might be getting baby corals?
if so, i want some!

 

[blout]

but why are my fish eating them the spawning lasted about 15min thay only eat some but keep spitting some out (i hope some gone in the sump)

 

[1152 Flying Fish]

fish eat their young. i asume the eggs are a good source of protine. and all the videos ive seen the fish eat the eggs at nausium.

 

[Salt Freak]

It is extremely difficult and it rarely ever happens in captitivity even when u r trying to breed corals. I think it has some thing to do with the lunar cycle they r learning alot about what the moon has to do with the reefs. but i do agree about them need the substrate. when they do breen it usually looks like ur water is pretty cloudy. So i highly dought its your corals.

 

[Fishy411]

corals dont breed. They split.

 

[blout]

so whats this then


Coral Spawning


Coral Polyps
with Eggs
Corals use many reproductive strategies, but it now seems that nearly all large, reef building species release millions of gametes once a year, in precisely synchronized mass-spawning rituals. These spectacular displays allow the stationary animals to mix genetically and to disperse offspring over great distances. Such a copious delivery system is also believed to maximize the chances of fertilization, and at the same time overwhelm predators with more food than they can possibly consume. The exact cues triggering the annual phenomenon remain unclear. They are generally believed to be linked to water temperatures as well as the lunar, tidal, and twenty-four hour light cycles.



Releasing Eggs
A few mass-spawners, known as gonochoric species, have separate male and female colonies, and depending on their sex, either release sperm or eggs, which, with luck, will cross fertilize somewhere in the vast water column. Most broadcasters, however, are hermaphrodites (both sexes occurring in each individual coral animal, or polyp). Such polyps once a year package both sperm and eggs into near little pink bundles that are expelled to the caprice of the currents when a biological clock strikes.



Coral Smoking
(Releasing Sperm)
Fertilization, which is possibly aided by sperm attractants, produces planulae larvae that are able to free-swim by day two. Now, in the grasp of tides and currents, the tiny new coral embarks on a grand voyage that can last for months and carry it hundreds of miles from its origin. If the speck of life somehow survives the ever-hungry mouths of plankton-pickers, filter-feeders, and jelly plankton, it will one day mysteriously sense suitable hard substrate below, settle, and begin producing a tiny calcium skeleton – the genesis of a great coral colony that could live for hundreds of years.





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[1152 Flying Fish]

well blout, sounds like you summed it up.

 

[blout]

when in dowt GOOGLE it (thought id ask here before google to see if anybody had the same thing)

 

[1152 Flying Fish]

Ill remember that.

 

[Ed4567]

I would guess it is more likely to be bristleworms spawning.
Ed