Blue polyps (clavularia sp.) how exactly do they spread?

[audio101]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12788998#post12788998 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Old Yeller Tang
Have any of you seen this coral stick to glass? I'd like to see mine cover up my bb tank.:smokin:

Luckygoldfish had a bottom of one of their bb tanks covered in it.

 

[JAMDivers]

Wow! You guys are making me jealous!!! How 'bout a pic sfsuphysics....just so I can drool LOL!

 

[sfsuphysics]

Well it doesn't stick directly to the glass, however it does grow on the coraline algae that's on the glass.

Picture? My tank's glass is too dirty for any large picture.

 

[biomekanic]

Very nice little tank

And are you serious about the shipping offer? I'd be happy to throw in a few buck to pay for your time too.

 

[Bud Reeferman]

Souonds like this could take over your tank before you figure out how to control it where you DON'T want it to be. My guess is that you've got a few months before they encroach on everything. Before you let them get too out of control, see if you can remove it from a rock without it growing back.

 

[audio101]

They do spread super fast, I've noticed single polyps popping up in the oddest places. I have a few polyps starting to appear in my AC70 filter.

 

[just dave]

Look close and you will see them all over in this picture.

 

[TJ_Burton]

I have this coral as well. The main colony grows fairly quickly over the rock, but I am also getting small colonies popping up all over the tank. I have counted at least 7 new 1" to 2" colonies around my aquarium.

 

[Caronte]

See that's the point, they exist in place where fission could not explain how they got there. So either than also get waterborne, or my damn urchin is spreading them around.

But they're fine in a softy tank as far as I can tell, but I'd be worried if they were connected to my stony tank.

The very same thing happens on my tank with this Blue Snowflakes Polyps (That's how Vivid's Aquarium call them) and also I share your theory that the urchin spread them around the tank. There isn't other explanation to me

 

[wireefman]

they spawn in the tank...

 

[RyanMizzell]

I know this is old either way, I'm sure it spawns off runners/spores. While the runners/spores get into, the water column after spawning. The current will take them, to their new home. Which will be wherever they end up. I've noticed my Blue Clavularia SP, when the lights were off. There were whitish tubes/stalks, sticking out between the polyps. I've noticed it once, before when the lights were on too. Under proper water columns it'll thrive, an spread like wild fire. Well at least that's what happen with me. Hope this helps out some.

 

[RyanMizzell]

they spawn in the tank...

Correct, well that's what I observed at least.

 

[droth335]

They do spawn in the tank as well as spread by the mat they put down. In our old 210 we them blanket most of the exposed rock. They don't seem to bother any other corals and we liked the look.

Here is a pic of them spawning:

And, as you can see below, they don't seem to inhibit other coral growth even when they carpet about every square inch of uninhabited space!

 

[msnwld]

Beautiful tank by the way