Eggs sticking to female's body?

[Flighty]

Has anyone seen this happen before? I just introduced a third magnifica with clone pair and the female and male clowns dove right into it. The sting seems a bit more powerful than the two which have been in the tank for 6 months or so.

A few hours later the female started laying her eggs, but has been having a few of them stick to her rather than to the rocks. Right now there are about 100 on the rock and 9 on her fins and body.


My best guess is that it is a temporary reaction caused by whatever happens when they touch a new anemone.

Other possible causes- we are having a few microbubles in the tank right now.
- this is her first spawn with a new male
- the chose a different location than she had been using before and may be trying to deposit the eggs directly on the magnifica's foot sometimes.

Anyone else seen this issue?

 

[Flighty]

Just thought I'd clarify about the Magnificas for anyone who isn't up on my story. I'm looking into propagating magnificas and have two splits from a specimen which was in another reefer's tank for 7 years. The new addition is in hopes of inducing a spawn by having genetically different specimens in the same water, or at least bringing up the number of healthy ones in my tank to the point that I feel comfortable splitting one manually.

I do not want people to think that three magnificas is a good idea on a whim

 

[shutiny]

Have not seen the same, but would love to see your new and old H. magnifica. Pictures please

 

[Flighty]

I will post some soon with a Fiji trip review and wild anemone photos

 

[shutiny]

Did you like Fiji? Can't wait to see the pics. Did you bring back the new H.magnifica?

 

[Flighty]

Fiji was incredible! We absolutely loved it. We did decide to not try bringing anything back though both because of the legal hassle and because we weren't going straight home. The new nem was from the Aquarium Gallery

I'll post anemone pics including a kitchen table size mertins as soon as I get around to finding a place to host them that I can link from.

In the meantime you can see a few pics and a description on the BRS site here. (I haven't posted the anemones there yet though)
http://www.bostonreefers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33013

 

[shutiny]

Thanks for sharing your trip pictures. Did you see H. magnifica and carpets?