WOW My Garf Bonzai just spawned

[Mchava]

Holly molly, I just saw my Garf Bonzai spawn in my tank. The wildest thing was I could smell it when it started to spawn. Now I know my tank is doing great. I never thought I would see this in my own tank. Here are some pictures I took. I was not able to capture the release but only the after.

Heres a view from the side "LOOK AT ALL THEM EGGS"

Here is a view of the Bonzai

and here is a close up from a few polyps ready to release some more

 

[glee]

that's cool! i love the polyp extension. did you turn off your return? do you have fish in your tank and how did they respond? did any of your other sps spawn too? i saw in a documentary that sps in the wild usually spawn at the same time.

 

[spsfreak]

Very kewl, congrats.

 

[Mr.Dee08]

that is one nice tank you' ve got there!

 

[liveforphysics]

Outstanding!

Could you let us know what photo-period you use? Any abnormal events recently, like large temp swing or pH swing?

Beautiful tank!

 

[Logzor]

Thats amazing.

Now explain how and why it happened

 

[poknsnok]

more pics and tank info!! awesome!!

 

[mpoletti]

Mario- That always cool when that happens. You might want to do a large water change as I know smaller tanks that have crashed due to their corals spawning

 

[graveyardworm]

Excellent, definately need more info, anything you think might be pertinent to the event, feeding, light schedule, and such. Great job.

 

[SunnyX]

That is really cool. You skimmer and fish must have gone nuts!

 

[stunreefer]

Awesome! Congrats :thumbsup:

 

[GSMguy]

Sick!

very nice tank.

you should some of those in the shallow Club thread too

 

[pIankton]

Sweet!

Crazy that in the first pic, you can see just how much more polyp extension it has than anything else near it.

Very cool.

 

[jyesum]

Thats cool, I have had a few corals in my tanks spawn, very rewarding event. Congrats...

 

[Mchava]

Hi every one thanks for all your great comments it make me glad you all like. As far as I can tell no changes in anything. Lighting from 12-930, Temp is from 78-80, ph 8.1-8.4. Nothing really changed.

mpoletti: im going to be doing a 15g water change today. It will be my regular weekly water change since today is when I do them.

SunnyX: The funny thing is my skimmer stopped working and none of my fish were out when it happened.

GSMguy: were is the shallow tank thread at.

For everyone else that wants some more info on my tank here is my somewhat of a build thread.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1470411

some top down pictures
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1513057

and some pictures with a moonlight as my light source
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1516249

 

[chris4869]

Wow. So does that make all of our Garf Bonsai uncles & aunts?

 

[Mchava]

I guess so, or is it Grandpas & Grandmas.:lol:

 

[drawman]

Very nice, good thing you caught it!

So how old is your tank and how large and old is the coral?

 

[reefer334]

Sweet tank and congrats on the spawning!!!

 

[xinumaster]

Amazing!