Euphylia grabrescens eggs?

surprised no body commented on this yet. It is very rare for this to happen. And even more rare for it to be photographed. Nice work. Any idea if they are fertile? Have any settled in anywhere? Have you tried harvesting them to propagate?
 
sorry i should have read your post better before i commented. How old is your tank? If this is your first coral I assume it is not that old. I would check your peramiters if it is new. Sometimes poor condition will cause corals to spawn as a last ditch effort for survival.
 
everything is ok, (at least I believe it is) nitrate nitrite ammonium 0
pH 8.3-8.2 at night
no phosphate...
calcium, I am waiting to a significant drop to put my reactor on.
redox close to 400...(I don't use ozone is only to see what is happening)

still everything very stable...

I bought it from a very low light setting, it was a frag, I have a lot more light, allmoust no fish (only 2) a refugium with lots of macroalgae...

my temp now 26-27 my fan stops when it reaches 26 degress celsius...

So I believe everything is allright...
it stopped dropping eggs and now it is again very open and vigorous...

And I don't believe this eggs are fertilized...maybe if the coral could self fertilize don't know...

my tanks has 2-3 months...

btw this frag was sold with one head...
in 2 weeks I can see there is now 3 heads...vegetative reproduction...so I believe I must be very lucky...
;)
 
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full moon was only 4 days ago...
I believe the sexual explosion in corals are usually a few days after the full moon...

hum...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5367/is_200508/ai_n21378174

"Branching corals (finger, staghorn and elkhorn corals) in the Florida Keys spawn three to five days after the full moon, about two hours after sunset."

well sunset?

the sun did went out 3-4 hours before I took the photograph...(maybe it started 2 hours earlier...)
but I have artificial lights at night (cheaper electricity...
:D

must be something here...

I didn't collect any...I though it could not be fertilized...
maybe I was wrong...

I am also surprised for so few replies (only you akindbro4u)...

And please don't think that it's impossible to have stable and recent aquariums...sometimes it's possible...

If we have the patience...
:D
 
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I didn't follow all the sacred rules at the beginning of my tank

I bought not even 35% of live rock...
50% was already cured 50% not cured, but I put it regartheless, It was a very fresh rock from the aeroport to my tank.

I put the lights on from day one 10 hours cycle
I am near the 500 watts in my system of maybe 500 liters...

not significan algae, I do however have a Osmosis system, I did put 25 liters of ocean water from the atlantic from the beginning

my idea?
to seed some life here...

some of the dead rocks are heavy in IRON deposits (some red on them, rock from dead fossil corals), there is no harm, iron only is soluble if it associates with some chelated organic acids...
;)
 
WOW, very cool Antonio Vitor, very nice camera work.

I'm sure that six line wrasse had a nice full belly (of fragspawn eggs)!
 
I always thought (most?)corals push their eggs into the water column. Why would these stay with the coral? Its different whatever it is...
 
I see your point...maybe it was weak coral trying to propagate itself or, maybe they are already alive (fertilized), and are heavier...really don't know...
 
those eggs are all gone now, I assume?
wierd regardless... Youll have to let us know when you see the first babies showing up.
 
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