my frogspawn spawned

[bcjm]

Few nights ago, I was watching TV and I noticed my clowns were feeding in the water column but I did not feed the tank anything. I was wondering that were they eating. All of a sudden I saw a white cloud came out of the frogspawn. It did that off and on for about few hours. I can actually see the eggs in the translucent tentacles rising slowly from the base to the top. Very interesting night.

[gastone]

...and where are the pics????

 

Garrett.

 

Congrats btw.

[treesprite]

I know nothing abotu coral reproduction. So will you now have a lot of frogspawn coral everywhere in your tank?

[bcjm]

I took some pictures but I don't think they are going to be any good. I can't do any good close up shots and I still don't know how to set my white balancing.

[OUsnakebyte]

I know nothing abotu coral reproduction. So will you now have a lot of frogspawn coral everywhere in your tank?

 

I've read conflicting reports as to whether "frogspawn" is a broadcast spawner or a brooder. Different species of Euphyllia are listed as broadcasters or brooders.

 

If your species is a brooder, you may very well get settled primary polyps. If it is a broadcaster, consider it a nice snack for your other tank inhabitants.

 

Either way - very cool.

 

Cheers

Mike

[Gatortailale]

i defer to mike (ousnake) and other experts on spawning

 

as for babies - usually if you make polyps retract, you can see the tiny little heads forming on side of skeleton about size of pin head. Some folks snip those off and glue to plug and grow out frags that way.

[bcjm]

interesting read about brooder and broadcaster.

 

http://www.coral.noaa.gov/cleo/coral_spawning.shtml

[treesprite]

i defer to mike (ousnake) and other experts on spawning

 

as for babies - usually if you make polyps retract, you can see the tiny little heads forming on side of skeleton about size of pin head. Some folks snip those off and glue to plug and grow out frags that way.

 

My frogspawn has several of those - I didn't know that those are considered offspring rather than a part of the main coral piece. It grows very fast.

[OUsnakebyte]

My frogspawn has several of those - I didn't know that those are considered offspring rather than a part of the main coral piece. It grows very fast.

 

If they remain part of the parent colony, it is considered colony growth. In most Euphyllia, I believe new polyps grow via extratentacular budding rather than intratentacular budding. In either case, if they become detached from the main colony - from an aquarists hands or any other means - it is considered asexual reproduction.

 

What was described in the original post was a form of sexual reproduction.

 

Cheers

Mike

Edited April 14, 2008 by OUsnakebyte