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AJT

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I have a tubastrea in my tank, but one just started growing on overflow pipe.


Andy
 

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Anonymous

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I don't know, but it says a HELL of a lot for your skills! :)
 

reefland

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Very cool! When I recently took my tank down to move to a new house, the original set of Durso Standpipes I made some 7+ years ago had near 2 inch thick of sponge growth on them. Amazing. The chamber had so many tube worms I was unable to see into it. Nothing as cool as what you found though.
 

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AJT":2ers75km said:
I wonder if they reproduce with eggs? I am not sure how it got there??

Andy

Most likely, a frag cames off (some crab and hermit likes to rip out soft corals), and get stucked in the overflow. It survived, and get to be what you see now.
 

npaden

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AJT, Tubastrea reproduce by asexual reproduction. They incubate little baby polyps inside the larger polyps and then release them into the tank. Like most everything else this is a sign of good health for your coral.

The trick is then finding the little babies and getting food to them. Your baby found a good spot to settle on the overflow and is getting good flow and evidently good food flow by it to be doing so well.

Congrats! Nathan
 

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AJT":117h408r said:
I have a tubastrea in my tank, but one just started growing on overflow pipe.

Outstanding!!

Do you target feed the original colony?? If so, what with?

P.
 

Mouse

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Dude, thats incredible.

Got your system stats for us, what you running DSB, BB?

Calcium reactor, Kalkwasser?
 

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