Something freaky happening!!!!!!!!

[doorlady]

Hey everybody!
Tonight we did a water change in the tank and about 30 minutes later when we started to feed the fish something really freaky started happening. I started seeing pink milky stuff being shot up from different areas of the rock work, then white milky stuff started coming from different areas. This went on for I know about 15 to 20 minutes.

Does anyone know what was going on, my first toughts were that something was spawning, but what and why 2 differnet colors?

 

[Tomoko Schum]

That could be your snails. Two of my Trochus snails were spawning the other day, sending up plumes of white stuff.

 

[mstwell]

My anemone has spawned a couple of times; looks something like what you describe.

 

[NicoleC]

Sometimes one spawning event will trigger another. Alternately, one could be the male spawn and the other female.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Sometimes one spawning event will trigger another.

This is quite true in fresh water aquariums. When several breeding tanks are connected to the same system via a common sump, it can result in a mass spawning event. To come to think of it, corals spawn simultaneously in nature...

 

[NicoleC]

Mass spawnings improve the odds of larvae surviving. I have seen fish mating dances get the other fish riled up, although it can't hold out long when they are all on different schedules.

Don't you still have my Wittenrich book, Tomoko?

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Yes, I do. I've meaning to give it back to you, but our paths don't seem to cross very often.

 

[NicoleC]

Obviously I'm not in a rush tp get it back.

 

[commonstranger]

Next time turns the lights down and play some soft music. LOL

 

[doorlady]

Next time turns the lights down and play some soft music. LOL

That would work for the hubby but I don't think that would work for the Aquarium:lol:

 

[scapes]

That would work for the hubby but I don't think that would work for the Aquarium:lol:

soft music would just make my hubby pass out