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alright so in the mist of a near disaster a month ago when my tank sitter cut off the sump from the display things were in an upward gain when suddenly 3 days ago we have a spawning event in the tank. I was unable to get to the tank to do water changes until about 10am. everything survived except a small orange digi and the 6 line wrasse. the shrimp are all fine wich suprised me. so anyways I was wondering if these fish were maybe not as resiliant as other fish. mind you that I only had him in the display for maybe 5 days, he had been in qt for 10 days or so. he looked healthy up until then. another question is what coral spawned, its mainly an sps tank but there is a frogspawn, a plygata brain(maze brain), deresa clam that looks kinda stressed out , and a few echinopora, echinophyllia. has any of those corals been known to spawn. there was a slight amonia spike when I tested the water, I believe the number was .02 everything looks fine now (except the things that died and the deresa hasnt opened fully untill today) any input would be appriciated.
 
Umm, haven't really heard of this happening in captivity with corals before. Someone else might have... Congrats on having appropriate tank conditions for whatever was happy -and- Sorry for your loss as well at the same time!

Was it eggs? How big? More just curiosity as I have no idea on the answer of what might have spawned... one of my coral books shows moon type corals doing it though?

My chiton spawn but it is so minute and it sounds like yours was on a larger scale?
 
I havent really heard of it either, just anemones. well, the water was like a diluted milk color and thier were small white dots floating around in the mix. I did a 20 gal water change then another 15 gal water change and everything kinda straightened out. the skimmer was going nuts and changed the collection cup once and hour for about 3 hours before it slowed down.
 
I've never heard of corals doing it, but clams have done it before. Usually it is in tanks with multiple same species clams, as they can sense other clams nearby and signal them chemically to spawn.

I have read about clams spawing as the only clam in the tank, and I think that the clams were about 50% of their adult size.
 
could be the deresa clam then, it is about 8 or 9 inches long but I know they can get huge with time. I just thought the whole thing was kind of strange. you can only imagine my reaction to seeing the tank look like that. Im just glad I was able to save it before it became a catastrophic loss.

does anyone know how 6 line wrasses are when it comes to slight amonia. the only reason I wonder is because I figured the pepperment shrimp and the other shrimps would handle amonia worse than the fish would. the only other fish in the tank are 2 percula clowns and they are very hady fish.
 
It does sound like the clam; I believe they grow to about a foot in captivity so if yours 8 inches it is more than mature enough to be spawning.

The sixlines are normally very hardy, but it could have had other health issues you never would have known about which may have caused it to sucuumb earlier than your other livestock.
 
6-line Wrasses are (usually) very tough to kill. It's hard to say why the fish and a Montipora croaked during a spawning event.
I'm surprised you folks haven't heard of corals spawning in aquariums.
It's difficult to figure out what spawned unless you actually see the critter (or critters) spawning.
If you ever do witnesss a spawn, snap some pictures and use flash on the camera. You'll be surprised how clearly things show up in a picture.
 
So corals have spawned in home aquariums? I'm sure it could happen just never heard anyone say it did. I know that the corals in the ocean spawn during a specific moon cycle but had kinda written it off as never being possible in my tank. I've heard of fish, clams, and other critters spawning. I'd be interested in reading more about this. Any chance you have a link Gary? No biggie if you don't, it'll give me a reason to be up late again on the internet tonight... ;)
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7489759#post7489759 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dreaminmel
So corals have spawned in home aquariums? I'm sure it could happen just never heard anyone say it did. I know that the corals in the ocean spawn during a specific moon cycle but had kinda written it off as never being possible in my tank. I've heard of fish, clams, and other critters spawning. I'd be interested in reading more about this. Any chance you have a link Gary? No biggie if you don't, it'll give me a reason to be up late again on the internet tonight... ;)
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Let's start with someone you know:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67692&highlight=spawn
 
You hear about it in public aquariums, but I've only read about corals spawning in tanks a few times in Coral magazine. That's really cool it happened in our area!
 
Thanks Gary! That I did not know... I don't think I was lurking here quite yet back then. Probably had my nose stuck in a coral book. :D So do you still have the other half? Did you ever get to witness a spawn?
 
Ive read about differant corals spawning in a tank but not really any of the ones I keep. I know differant sps will but I dont recall it being as big of an event as what was in my tank. actually at first I thought it was the frogspawn that had spawned because it has been looking amazing lately but it could have been the clam. I havent heard of anyone having a frogspawn spawn in captivity or if it would have been of the magnitude this was. the tank wasnt white but it had a definite fog.
 
It might have been the froggie. It might have been the clam. What time did the spawning happen? After lights went out? After a water change? After a feeding? Been feeding cyclopeeze or phytoplankton by chance?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7493639#post7493639 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Gary Majchrzak
It might have been the froggie. It might have been the clam. What time did the spawning happen? After lights went out? After a water change? After a feeding? Been feeding cyclopeeze or phytoplankton by chance?
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thats part of the problem, Im not 100% sure as to the exact sequence of events. I know the previous night about 10 minutes after the lights went out for the night I gave it a blast of a dt's phytoplankton and small chunk of cyclopeeze. I do that probably 2 times a week. I really didnt pay much attention to the tank until the next morning when things were looking kinda nasty. so.... Im thinking that the spawning event happened closer to when I fed the tank rather than before the lights went on. could be wrong about that though.
 
I've had my Derasa clam spawn many times in my tanks over the years. A lot of times it would happen a day after I was working on the tank late at night, and extended the photo period a few hours longer than normal. I could never get good pics. It would last 20-30 minutes. Every minute or two, the clam would expel a white cloud. Then it looked like it was taking a deep breath, and breathing in, and holding. A minute later, it would expel again. As time went on, the white cloud it spit out would not be as concentrated, until finally, the last few puffs were almost clear.
The tank did get very milky, but having a large sump, and multiple tanks connected to the same system diluted it. I never lost any animals due to this behavior.

I did loose a sixline wrasse once a few years ago when we were hit with that bad ice storm a few days before the Super Bowl. I lost power for a day and a half. The only loss was a sixline and a table Acro. I know a lot of people lost whole tanks during that outage.

And finally, I knew a guy who had a Montipora release eggs. He had it on video, and it was so cool. The eggs were a pink color coming from a monti cap or encrusting monti. Not sure since it was long ago and I can't seem to locate that video.
 
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