Registered: May 2006
Location: lock haven
Occupation: photographer/graphic design
Posts: 68
Mysterious eggs??
This afternoon I noticed these in my tank.
(please excuse the facebook links i dont have a flickr account)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...0&id=1015290122
There are three photos
They are of single rose/pinkish egg shaped orbs in a patch of star polyps.
Some of them are single and set down among the polyps, most of them were attached on two long strands. They are about the size of a pencil point.
eventually the current took them and scattered them.
Any ideas?
Didnt look like snail eggs to me but I am not discounting that. I have turbo snails, tiny brittle stars, blue legged hermit crabs,limpets, a single pistol shrimp, Could they be fish eggs? steinmetz goby, two yellow clown gobies( but they fight a lot and stay on opposite sides of the tank, one green mandarin, two lubbocks fairy wrasse-which are both still colored like females-although one is developing a few pink patches of scales- i dont even know if these guys will change sex in the tank.
Corals are a mix, shrooms, zoas, palys, toadstools, green finger leather, brown finger leather,pink xenia, anthelia acans, lobo, 16 or 17 fungia( one of my two colonies buds off alot),mix of sps-monti cap, red digitata, green milli,pocilliopora,birdsnest, some others i dont know names of...also clove polyps and two kinds of star polyps...I have had pocillopora turn up in odd places in tiny patches so i assume it broadcast ...does anyone know if star polyps spawn..it looks like the eggs rise out of the polyps..
tank is a 75 gallon, with red sea HOB skimmer and a old skilter as a makeshift refugium, 260 watts of pc lights, 2 koralia 2s, 1 koralia 1, i generic powerhead.
Tank has been set up since mid december when I upgraded from my 4 year old 29 gallon.
I run phoszorb in the media bucket on the REd sea skimmer and carbon in the slot on the skilter
Temp 81
Sal 1.025/26
Calc 420
alk 4
amm 0
nitrate 5-10
mag 1300
ph 8.2
water was cloudy yesterday which was odd .I thought maybe one of the anthelia colonies got sucked into one of the koralias, they grow so fast that it happens..I added new carbon to the slot in the skilter-it cleared up
Location: lock haven
Occupation: photographer/graphic design
Posts: 68
Mysterious eggs??
This afternoon I noticed these in my tank.
(please excuse the facebook links i dont have a flickr account)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?p...0&id=1015290122
There are three photos
They are of single rose/pinkish egg shaped orbs in a patch of star polyps.
Some of them are single and set down among the polyps, most of them were attached on two long strands. They are about the size of a pencil point.
eventually the current took them and scattered them.
Any ideas?
Didnt look like snail eggs to me but I am not discounting that. I have turbo snails, tiny brittle stars, blue legged hermit crabs,limpets, a single pistol shrimp, Could they be fish eggs? steinmetz goby, two yellow clown gobies( but they fight a lot and stay on opposite sides of the tank, one green mandarin, two lubbocks fairy wrasse-which are both still colored like females-although one is developing a few pink patches of scales- i dont even know if these guys will change sex in the tank.
Corals are a mix, shrooms, zoas, palys, toadstools, green finger leather, brown finger leather,pink xenia, anthelia acans, lobo, 16 or 17 fungia( one of my two colonies buds off alot),mix of sps-monti cap, red digitata, green milli,pocilliopora,birdsnest, some others i dont know names of...also clove polyps and two kinds of star polyps...I have had pocillopora turn up in odd places in tiny patches so i assume it broadcast ...does anyone know if star polyps spawn..it looks like the eggs rise out of the polyps..
tank is a 75 gallon, with red sea HOB skimmer and a old skilter as a makeshift refugium, 260 watts of pc lights, 2 koralia 2s, 1 koralia 1, i generic powerhead.
Tank has been set up since mid december when I upgraded from my 4 year old 29 gallon.
I run phoszorb in the media bucket on the REd sea skimmer and carbon in the slot on the skilter
Temp 81
Sal 1.025/26
Calc 420
alk 4
amm 0
nitrate 5-10
mag 1300
ph 8.2
water was cloudy yesterday which was odd .I thought maybe one of the anthelia colonies got sucked into one of the koralias, they grow so fast that it happens..I added new carbon to the slot in the skilter-it cleared up
