Acropora spawning in home Aquarium..

[ReefRondo]

Absolutely fascinating! I’m so interested in this sort of thing. Amazing.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Just a little hint....Thales is Rich Ross....ask him questions....

Gotta love r2r. The amount of experts on this forum is unbelievable and even more cool to see them participating in the threads.

 

[sixty_reefer]

NoW that I think of it I wonder if our location has any impact on the subject I know for a fact that our local LFS they’re torches spawn often. We’ve seen the baby’s attached to the plugs twice now. The first time we’ve seen two baby’s and on the last occasion all the frag plugs had little baby’s attached.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

NoW that I think of it I wonder if our location has any impact on the subject I know for a fact that our local LFS they’re torches spawn often. We’ve seen the baby’s attached to the plugs twice now. The first time we’ve seen two baby’s and on the last occasion all the frag plugs had little baby’s attached.

That's cool!

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Gotta love r2r. The amount of experts on this forum is unbelievable and even more cool to see them participating in the threads.

I was just thinking the same thing. I can’t remember another point in time where so many old school guys have been around and actually been active adding to threads.

I gotta give rich and the others who have been active here and in local clubs big props! Reefers like these guys who travel to share knowledge in person or contribute online actively are a big help to the hobby in many aspects.

 

[ChrisH]

Lovely to watch.

In an attempt to add a tiny bit of information, many years ago (say around 1990 - just way back, anyway) I had a stable system that I rarely touched. One piece of gorgonia was about six inches tall and on a rock on the sand, not particularly growing much but seemingly happy.

I changed lighting system to a Giesmann luminaire with a moonlight. The first time the light was on, the gorgonia spawned, late in the evening when only the moonlight was on. It was like having milk poured in - impossible to see through the water to the back of the tank. Massive water change to reduce the change of pushing parameters too high (though I cannot now remember what these were).

Bottom line is that with everything else unchanged, this one-off spawning was triggered under moonlight on day (night) 1, with no other change to the system.

 

[Ashish Patel]

Congrats - I am so happy to see this

 

[A Toadstool Leather]

I believe coral spawning is regulated by the cycles of the moon. Not all corals reproduce like this as many corals are brooding corals that release fully fertilized larvae fertilized by spawned sperm. Congratulations on being able to witness such an event.

 

[Steve180]

Wow! That’s pretty amazing to watch. Good job