Mysterious eggs??

[somosomo]

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?pid=30318060&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

 

[1DeR9_3Hy]

I hate social networking sites so i dont have a login

But without seeing the pics, i would say snail eggs?

 

[cloak]

I'm guessing the star polyps spawned. Anything like this?

 

[somosomo]

yeah that is exactly it

never thought that would happen

 

[somosomo]

so what are the chances of that actually happening?

what are the chances that they actually reproduce?

 

[cloak]

Slim to none, to both. Very few reefers as far as I know have had this happen to them. It's a great thing, reguardless of which type of coral. You had to be doing something right.

:thumbsup:

 

[somosomo]

there was a smaller release today. I noticed it at about 1pm this afternoon.

Yeah I am really stoked about it. I never thought I would see it in my tank

Is there anything I can do to facilitate them hatching? Would they even be fertile?
I am guessing with the koralias and skimmer what the fish and coral dont eat will probably just get chewed up mechanically


thanks cloak

nate

 

[somosomo]

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2018502&id=1015290122&l=7a25be393b

this link should be available to everyone

 

[rendogg]

Nice work, a fine accomplishment indeed!!

 

[seapug]

that's cool, but I would worry about needing a successful spawn to grow more GSP. Just rip chunks off and put it wherever you want.

 

[rendogg]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15409601#post15409601 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seapug
that's cool, but I would worry about needing a successful spawn to grow more GSP. Just rip chunks off and put it wherever you want.

Why are you worried about it? Has yours spawned? Maybe if it spawned you wouldn't have to rip chunks off.... flame on!

 

[kook1e]

he is just commenting that GSP grow like weeds...

 

[rendogg]

^ So do a lot of other corals, but they don't all spawn in our aquariums.... just came out a bit pretentious, that's all.

 

[LockeOak]

If you can get the larvae, just fill a glass bowl with tank water, put some tiles or something down in it, and cover the top of the bowl to limit evaporation (saran wrap is fine). Add the larvae and hopefully they'll settle onto the tiles. Don't worry about lots of light or water movement or anything like that, just see if they'll settle. Take pictures every day or two, I want to see if it works

 

[somosomo]

I knew i should have collected them for something .......I will try it if they spawn again. I had a smaller release today..maybe I will luck out and be able to grab some tomorrow..i will give that idea a try

thanks

 

[luther1200]

Very cool, I love seeing stuff like that.