Sun Coral Spawn

[SethSPST]

Has anyone seen a sun coral spawn? Mine appear to be spawning, they are spiiting out small orange balls, and teardrop shaped orange things as well. THey've been doing it for a couple days.

 

[dendro982]

Yep, it's spawning. The planula should settle on the rock, downflow from main colony.

 

[SethSPST]

Will they grow new colonies?

 

[2divers]

ours ended up settling in the overflow box and grew nicely. Keep up the feeding and you probably will get good results.

 

[dendro982]

Will they grow new colonies?

Yes, by growing new polyps around the first polyp. Here are different stages:

Only they are quite a long time in the single polyp state. Feeding speeds the growth.

This is one of what was a single polyp year before that:

on not too good feeding, cyclop-eeze, no meaty food. Same age colonies, better fed were 2 times larger.

Same colony less than year later:

Budding new polyps drastically increased after daily feedings (or at least every other day).

 

[SethSPST]

Thannks Dendro!

 

[lilfish07]

nice picture

 

[sunfishh]

Congradulations on your baby corals SethSPST

 

[timrandlerv10]

what do you feed? how often? what do you do to your tank when you feed?

are they in high flow, low flow, etc.

Thanks!

 

[Dustin1300]

Dendro, that is one of the healthiest I've ever seen. It's one FATTY!

 

[dendro982]

Thanks! Don't be shy posting your information and photos!
I have to find pictures of progress of the same piece, very interesting: Few very big polyps are catching big pieces of food and (likely) providing nutrition for the smallest polyps' growth. Main mass is a carpet of small polyps, catching the smallest food, that is too small for the big polyps. Very efficient!

 

[amithi]

very nice looking coral
congrats..

 

[goldenmacman]

those are some nice looking suns!

 

[Redds]

congrats gotta love when that happens

 

[yiliyang]

That is really cool. I found a single sun coral under a ledge in my tank, I had no idea how it got there, now I know my small colony was getting busy.

Learned something today.

 

[ReneX]

Congratulations! You must be keeping them well fed if they have enough energy to make babies. If you are lucky the babies will settle all over the rockwork and the ones in areas that allow them to get food will grow.

 

[SethSPST]

THere are still babies everywhere, unfortunately they haven't spawned since, and I've been neglecting them lately. Only been feeding about every 3rd night. I defrost a cube of mysis in the fridge, then soak it in vitachem or zoecon for about 1 hour before I feed. I've also started using cyclopeeze too.

 

[Plankt0s]

WOW! that real is cool. Thanks for sharing. I wish that you were able to get pics of the spawning.

 

[Kreeger1]

The spawn is just little balls floating in the tank, but Im sure you new that

 

[redfishc21w]

Hi dendro982
Could you give me some information how to keep Sun Coral ?
Water flow , where to put it and feeding .
I have 2 colony. They get black color stuff on 1 and then spread to others. What is the problem ?
Thanks