Pocillopora Damicornis Spawning in My Tank-Updated 9/12/06

[cyro]

Louey,
what is the difference between P. damicornis and Pocillopora meandrina ?

do you know what kind of pocillopora the pic below? he is with me for maybe 2 weeks.
dead parts are not developing nowadays. what do you think? is he die later or get all alive?

and is there spesific things to do to pocilloporas?

regards.

i like crabs very much. because of this i took a crab with his one
mostly dead but in 4 days his polyps grow up. you can see the growing parts. but the top is still dead and getting algy.
what do u think can i get him fully alive? or what i need to do?

 

[acroman]

cyro: that looks like p. verucosa.

there is a lot of debate in the literature about p damicornis. it started out that they are brooders, then that they are broadcast spawners, then that they primarily reproduce asexually by some sort of asexual planulation. now there is evidence for both sexual and asexual brooding.
i have seen the same thing happen after a stress event, where the mother colony wont look any different, but clones show up all over the tank on powerheads and overflows and such.

 

[Anonymous]

I think the moonlight that I was running caused the spawn, or whatever it was.

I stopped using the moon light and have had no more spawns.

While cool in principle, spawns can be very bad for your tank inhabitants due to the closed system.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

I think the moonlight that I was running caused the spawn, or whatever it was.

I stopped using the moon light and have had no more spawns.

While cool in principle, spawns can be very bad for your tank inhabitants due to the closed system.

Louey

I've seen this happen in 3 different systems that don't have moon lights. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a normal thing for the coral to do every now and then.

 

[Anonymous]

Matt Wandell wrote:

I've seen this happen in 3 different systems that don't have moon lights. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a normal thing for the coral to do every now and then.

I dunno. I had this colony for years with no spawns. I added moon lighting and bam, P. Dams all over the place.

And who knows, the 3 systems that you have seen this in could have all been caused by different events.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

No moonlight on my old system and ol' P. damicornis used to spread his progeny everywhere. Might eventually be known as the weed of the reefing world, I reckon.

 

[Anonymous]

Matt Wandell wrote:

I've seen this happen in 3 different systems that don't have moon lights. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a normal thing for the coral to do every now and then.

I dunno. I had this colony for years with no spawns. I added moon lighting and bam, P. Dams all over the place.

And who knows, the 3 systems that you have seen this in could have all been caused by different events.

Louey

Ah, gotcha. I misread your post and thought you were saying moon lights cause the spawning independent of your own tank.