What spawned?

[Chitownpw]

The other night I noticed what looked like micro bubbles all throughout my tank. The fish were eating them so I realized something had spawned. I have a pair of bonded gobies and a pair of bonded skunk clowns. However, I have a six foot tank and every centimeter was covered. It common for fish to spawn in such a large number?


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[murphreef]

probably mysis shrimp

 

[Anemone]

The other night I noticed what looked like micro bubbles all throughout my tank. The fish were eating them so I realized something had spawned. I have a pair of bonded gobies and a pair of bonded skunk clowns. However, I have a six foot tank and every centimeter was covered. It common for fish to spawn in such a large number?


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You probably would have noticed if your clowns were guarding a clutch of eggs (laid on a hard surface). What inverts are in the tank, including corals?

Kevin

 

[Chitownpw]

You probably would have noticed if your clowns were guarding a clutch of eggs (laid on a hard surface). What inverts are in the tank, including corals?



Kevin

I have a mixed reef. I have some video of it and will try and upload later. I did pull some out of the tank and they looked like fry, not pods, etc.


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[Chitownpw]

You probably would have noticed if your clowns were guarding a clutch of eggs (laid on a hard surface). What inverts are in the tank, including corals?

Kevin

Here is a video, with the last portion showing what i think is a fry (albeit, a fuzz / out of focus one): https://youtu.be/LPbxaj6n_UQ

 

[gobyvin]

What kind of gobies? Genus Valencienna? Sand sifters? I had them, they laid every 13 days or so once they started. Looks like fish larvae. The goby larvae were tiny. But there are lots of them!

 

[Chitownpw]

What kind of gobies? Genus Valencienna? Sand sifters? I had them, they laid every 13 days or so once they started. Looks like fish larvae. The goby larvae were tiny. But there are lots of them!

They are a pair of orange spotted gobies. The thing is that I have a 6ft tank and these were all over. Seems like a lot of eggs.

 

[gobyvin]

They lay a lot of eggs. I had gold head sleepers. I had a 6 foot tank too. Does your male incubate the egg mass in a burrow? My sleepers laid a chandelier of eggs that hung from their den ceiling. The male guarded them, cleaned and fanned Ayer through the burrow that he maintained daily with a front and rear entrance.

 

[Chitownpw]

They lay a lot of eggs. I had gold head sleepers. I had a 6 foot tank too. Does your male incubate the egg mass in a burrow? My sleepers laid a chandelier of eggs that hung from their den ceiling. The male guarded them, cleaned and fanned Ayer through the burrow that he maintained daily with a front and rear entrance.

It's difficult for me to tell. They've borrowed under a lot of rock work and I can see only a few entrances. However, they are constantly guarding.

 

[ca1ore]

Broadcast spawning is usually corals with pocilopora as the most likely suspect. Do you have any of that in your tank?

 

[Chitownpw]

It's difficult for me to tell. They've borrowed under a lot of rock work and I can see only a few entrances. However, they are constantly guarding.

burrowed - not borrowed

 

[Chitownpw]

Broadcast spawning is usually corals with pocilopora as the most likely suspect. Do you have any of that in your tank?

Yes - that could be it.

 

[Bma1972]

There's a good chance, video with blue lights hard to see anything, maybe cleaner shrimp or hermit crabs. Im sure you can pull out of your sump sock or skimmer some dead and magnify. If free swimming either fish or invert larvae. Coral larvae would have no body parts, look like "cells"

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[lionfish300]

Broadcast spawning is usually corals with pocilopora as the most likely suspect. Do you have any of that in your tank?

If that the case like me I got rid of my Pocilopora 5 years ago and still picking them out of my rocks