My Blue Tort Spawned!!

[werdlone]

I was able to capture my blue tort spawning the other night! I randomly decided to check the tank out before going to bed with a flashlight. I saw what looked like red pellet food floating around. I turned the pumps off and found them coming from my blue tort. I shot video with a wind-up led flashlight and my iphone..so sorry about quality. I've seen tv specials of this in the wild, but never thought I'd see it in my reef! This happened wed night/thursday morning around midnight. It was a full moon that night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9KExxIbM0

here is a picture of the blue tort with the lights on...

anyone else see this in their reef??

 

[reefried]

sweet

 

[bogg]

that is so awesome congrats I'll always remember when my sps spawned I'll never forget how happy it made me you'll want to skim it all out though.

 

[OneReef]

I must be missing something. What am I looking for in the video? I did not even know SPS 'spawned'....

 

[JDMhoes]

"I randomly decided to check the tank out before going to bed with a flashlight"
LMAO!!
I do that every night**** =]

 

[Grant W]

That is so cool to see. Must be a happy system. Did it trigger others to start up?

 

[basser1]

Great vid! Thanks for sharing and beautiful tort, btw!

 

[Dustin1300]

That is so cool to see. Must be a happy system. Did it trigger others to start up?

The spawning party just happened when the flashlight went out

 

[JAG107]

Amazing!
I had a Pocillopora Damicornis spawn in my frag tank a few months ago, and now have a few dozen small frags growing on the glass, along with the fewer bigger ones I glued to plugs. A tort spawn though, that's COOL! Beautiful mother, too!

 

[cmaxwell39]

Very cool. Your system must make this coral very happy. Congratulations.

 

[werdlone]

Dustin1300 wrote:

The spawning party just happened when the flashlight went out

LOL..It was reef porn!!

Grant W wrote:

That is so cool to see. Must be a happy system. Did it trigger others to start up?

No, I checked all of the other corals and nothing happened. I also have a large frag of the blue tort in my frag tank..Checked that one as well, but nothing.

 

[SunnyX]

Sweet! Best part is I have a piece of that tort!!!

 

[werdlone]

Hope its doing well for you Sonny!..I may have a bunch of pieces of that tort all over my tank soon!! We'll see if any of those eggs settle and grow.

 

[Whisperer]

Does it have anything to do with the full moon?

 

[diciple]

you must be sooo proud!

you must be sooo proud!

Of coral that is cool hope you get a bunch of baby tort's save me one LOLOL:spin1:

 

[GhostCon1]

First, congrats on having such a good system to get them to spawn! Second, is your tank exposed to moonlight?

To the poster that asked what are you looking for, you are looking for tiny, pellet-sized eggs floating about the video.

 

[Lyfey]

Would captive spawned corals be more resilient and "stronger" than captive cut corals?

 

[reefsic]

I hate you! JK

Congrats...that is truly amazing to witness and experience in captivity!

 

[philipchan]

Amazing !!
I really didn't know Coral will spawn ...
just saw this video, from Japan,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSCSINHbgg0&feature=fvwk

 

[GhostCon1]

Would captive spawned corals be more resilient and "stronger" than captive cut corals?

I don't know about them being more resilient, but any captive-bred animal is generally easier to maintain in aquaria (for a variety of reasons) than their wild counterparts.