NPS growth

[HV1990]

Hello. Well my DW bought a dendro and its my first NPS coral. My question is how do NPS reproduce and how can I tell if this is happening?

 

[glparr]

Dendronephthya or Dendrophyllia? Dendrophyllia will grow by producing new polyps, which will be quite obvious. I doubt you'll see them reproduce sexually in an aquarium. Those more knowledgeable can address Dendronephthya.
Gary

 

[Scma]

Just happened to have a picture of my dendro poppin out babies. Few days again suddenly was poppin out 5-6 heads at the same time!!!

You can see two of them at the bottom left of the dendro

 

[PhysicsMunkey]

For the sake of not making duplicate topics and since we already have a thread started on this...

Is this some new growth starting on a sun polyp??

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[Moort82]

Looks like new suns. You should notice little feeding tentacles appear soons. Its also surprising just how fast they grow into adult polyps.

 

[Moort82]

Should have said you see sexual spawing with suns quite often, at least mine and several friends seem to. Although this seems to be with the orange or yellow species.

 

[uhuru]

Cherry Corals caught theirs spawning on video:

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[glparr]

Well, I certainly sit corrected. Apparently these things spawn without difficulty. I'll be looking for spawning action in my tank. Learn something every single day.
Gary

 

[slapshot]

Cherry Corals caught theirs spawning on video:

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Todd will do anything to get people to his booth! They for sure spawn as I have two babies like 2 mm in size clear across my tank from mine. they just appeared one day. They have doubled in size over the last three weeks. See them under the favites: