What are these?

[Kware0112]

Anyone have an idea? My guess is nudibrach's. are they bad?

Mike Hayes

 

[46gReef]

Baby sea urchins? kinda hard to tell from the pics but that's bwhat they look like to me....

 

[Kware0112]

They're fuzzy and sway with the current. Not hard and spikey


Mike Hayes

 

[Reefing Madness]

But they aren't moving?
Hair Worm possibly.

 

[46gReef]

Not that I would recommend it but did you touch them? Just asking because urchins do have tentacles that they put out, they are much more noticeable when their small....and that's a good question, are they moving around?

 

[46gReef]

Actually that last pic makes me second guess that their urchins....

 

[Kware0112]

Okay, this is so weird. I figured out what they are. I got up the nerve to touch them with something and it pulled the polyps in and it's an SPS frag. They are little pieces off of my SPS frag above it. But they haven't been broken off. It's almost like it just sprouted babies and fell down.


Mike Hayes

 

[Kware0112]

Mike Hayes

 

[Reefing Madness]

WOW. Very cool!!

 

[46gReef]

Mystery solved!

 

[Kware0112]

Does sps do that? Just spit off little babies?


Mike Hayes

 

[46gReef]

I guess so! I'm not sure if that is something that happens regularly to be honest, I'm not a SPS guy....pretty cool though

 

[returnofsid]

Pocillopora are notorious for "polyp bailout," in which some, or all, of the polyps will bailout from the skeleton. Since the polyps are heavier than a lot of other SPS, they're more likely to survive all of our power heads and filtration, settling somewhere, to start a new colony.

 

[pickupman66]

I had a Poci that did soem serious spawning in my tank. when I broke down my 75, the entire rim was encrusted with Poci growth.