Spawning

Well, it would seem that the old saying holds true even in this hobby that when the cats away the mice will play. Yesterday while on the lfs tour my Euphillia decided to spawn and spawn and spawn and spawn. Last night when I got home the tank was clouded with "stuff" alot of "stuff". Thanks to John and his better half along with my wife we were able to use nets to remove the 4 quadrillion eggs mostly attached to stuff as well as free floating. We did a 30% water change and the 100 micron socks keep plugging up about every 4 hours. Skimmer is going crazy and we'll this morning it is still very cloudy. Everything looks ok the euphillia all look very very relaxed ;) what if anything can. I do to remove "stuff" from the water column or is socks and skimmer about it? Should I be concerned about anything other then euphillia popping up everywhere? Thanks for your help.

Have you ever had euphyllia spawn in your tank Mark?

Takes more than algae and live rock to clean up that gunk!

That's pretty awesome.

Edited by Mark Peterson - March 01 2015 at 9:28pm

I saw it in person. It was a mass Euphyllia spawn event. Something triggered a huge spawn with every Euphyllia in his tank.

Eggs and slime everywhere. It was crazy!

Edited by Pete Moss - March 02 2015 at 7:55am

We didn't take pictures. Reefer4ever isn't really in the reef porno business.

For the most part it's cleared up now. It completely saturated the carbon, and filled up filter socks faster than they could be replaced. The slime and eggs are gone now, but the water is still a bit cloudy.

You technically could.

I have seen VERY few mass spawning events in the home Aquarium during my time in the Hobby. One was a rainbow bubble-tip anemone, one was fungia, this one was Euphyllia. Spawning events usually require very specific conditions which are hard to replicate in a glass box. In the case of the rainbow bubble-tip, the spawning was very successful and hundreds of the anemone grew on the rocks.

This is the first time I've seen a Euphyllia mass spawn. We will see if they make it past larvae stage and start growing on the rocks I suppose.

Long story short, yes they theoretically could grow up. I just have never personally witnessed it with Euphyllia. 




Edited by Pete Moss - March 02 2015 at 9:47am

After a couple days of scrubbing and water changes the tank looks wonderful once again.

We'll see if any Euphyllia pop up on the rocks haha! Pretty sure we cleaned out most of the eggs though.

As long as the corals/fish aren't under age it is perfectly legal to post pics of reef porn.  I've taken as many as I've the opportunity to take.

A huge spawn could certainly wipe out all life in a tank.  A small spawn is great food for fish and clams like Mark suggests, but a large spawn will decay and pollute the tank killing everything if not dealt with quickly.  It sounds like you had some good strategies to get it out of the water column.  You did exactly what I would have done.  Filter socks, water changes, netting it out etc.  Just make sure to run good AC for the next little while if you don't already.

At first I was thinking this was unbelievable. After reading what the eyewitnesses described and after talking to Dennis last night at the meeting, all I can say is AMAZING. 

All I can say is "Wow!"