Something is spawning in my small tank!

[Rogger Castells]

Has anyone seen this before??

I started observing this little balls floating up from somewere at the bottom of the tank so far I have collected like 20 of them but there are still coming out

I can't tell what they are but when I squeeze one it disolved into thousands of little odd shape pod like creatures!?

I collected them as they floated to the surface

 

[ek9vboi]

Wow nice tank Rogger, is this the one in ur room?

 

[ZURCSREEF]

Maybe they will grow to be thousands of rhomboids? Just messin, very interesting...

 

[scubasteve247]

do you have any types of LPS? ive seen them spawn, there way to big to be shrimp, crabs, or pods of course. and im pretty sure those are not fish eggs, so i would say either a coral or anemone.

 

[Rogger Castells]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7799244#post7799244 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ek9vboi
Wow nice tank Rogger, is this the one in ur room?

Nope, this is the small tank on the living room

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7799269#post7799269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by scubasteve247
do you have any types of LPS? ive seen them spawn, there way to big to be shrimp, crabs, or pods of course. and im pretty sure those are not fish eggs, so i would say either a coral or anemone.

I have one small SPS, no LPS's except for one purple gonipora, one small clam, lots of zoo's and Ricordia, xenia, Mushrooms, 2 urchins, 5 shrimp.

my only suspect are the urchins

 

[sparks56]

looks like fish food!!!

 

[Rogger Castells]

has anyone seen urchins eggs before?

 

[scubasteve247]

yeah, could be urchings, thats def a posiblilty,no way its sps, to big, but maybe the gonipora, def. a major congrats would be in order if you got yours to spawn,

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what kind of urchin do you have, cause i found this.
http://encyclopedia.quickseek.com/images/Sea_urchin_eggs.jpg

yours look a lil to big, so im thinking gonipora now. cool!

 

[ZURCSREEF]

Its not urchins and I am almost 100% its not the gonipora

 

[scubasteve247]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7799467#post7799467 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ZURCSREEF
Its not urchins and I am almost 100% its not the gonipora

do you think it might be the clam then? i cant think what else it would be from what hes listed.

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[Rogger Castells]

Nope, my clams have spawn before, I know how those look, I actually had my Squamosa release spern for like 1 hour last week.
I have one type of zoo type coral that looks diff. and also the goniopora looks kind of wierd, I am suspecting one of these two as well

 

[scubasteve247]

yeah, im not positive, but IMO i still think its the gonipora. ive seen GSP spawn before, they release a small red egg, in mass quantities, but from the way yours look in the picture and the size of the egg, and what weve rulled out its the only thing left i think it could be.

 

[Rogger Castells]

the eggs that are in the cup have desintegrated into a million little specs, the ones that desitegrated in the tank are making the xenia go wild

 

[Rogger Castells]

The tank is starting to cloud a little, I may need to do a water change.....bummer! These are the other suspects notice the one coral was totally close one minute and open up the next.....this could be feeding too I guess.

 

[scubasteve247]

that one you show closed up appears to be a very common species in florida waters, a type of encrusting zooanthid.

http://research.myfwc.com/gallery/image_details.asp?id=21267

im a avid snorkler and diver and see areas compleley covered with them, i also have seen a few different colors, ranging from white, browm, a marron and even a yellow/bright green.

i would say its closed up from eating, ive had a piece for a few years and evey time i fed the tank it would close up.

 

[ek9vboi]

Its not goniopora.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=722629

http://www.goniopora.org/goniophytes.htm

Wow, being bored. lol... nice too see the tank again Rogger. I want some more rics!

 

[scubasteve247]

well i see, never knew that before. pretty cool

and i wouldnt call it being bored exactly, more like understanding there is so much more for me to learn, and trying to expand my knowledge on the hobby, just giving my opinion, never said i was positive i was right.

 

[bawla47]

thats way cool rogger! looks like spectrum pellets! lol, any of the fish eat them?

 

[Rogger Castells]

The little egg clusters dissolved in the cup into millions of little eggs, I'll try to take better pics with day light tomorrow

 

[ek9vboi]

whatever it is... if the fish and corals eat it, i say feed it!