What the heck are these?!?! Internal parasites on NPS LPS?

[mogurnda]

I see polyps. Wow! Good job, Nick.

[encideought]

Thanks for the nice words everyone, I'll try to make them happy and update the post whenever I get new pictues.

[FearTheTerps]

was it just that one "parent" polyp that had larvae in it, or did the other polyps have them as well?

[ctenophore]

Very nice! You should post this on MBI - marine breeder initiative - http://www.mbisite.org/

[encideought]

was it just that one "parent" polyp that had larvae in it, or did the other polyps have them as well?

 

One or two of the other larger heads had a couple planulae in them, but the one I got the video of looked like it had the most. I counted ~a dozen that actually left the parent coral and were crawling around the feeding container I had them in. I'm sure there were more than that to start, but they probably went into the main tank before I put the coral in the feeding container. Of the ones I was able to find, it looks like 10 or 11 settled on the rubble I put in the smaller container for them.

 

Very nice! You should post this on MBI - marine breeder initiative - http://www.mbisite.org/

 

Thanks! I'll try checking out how to make a little post about all this.

[gws3]

that's pretty impressive that you just aquacultured sun corals. job well done.