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Old 04/06/2007, 02:48 AM
n2prelude03 n2prelude03 is offline
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birdsnest spawning

I was bored earlier today and got nothing to do so i spend some time with my fish tank. I noticed clear dots comming out of the polyps of my birdsnest. with a closer look, it look like the birdnest is spawning. or is this somthing else. too bad i have a bad camera and cant take a good picture of this.


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Old 04/06/2007, 05:25 AM
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Sand particles?
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Old 04/06/2007, 05:42 AM
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I dont think so
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Old 04/06/2007, 07:04 PM
n2prelude03 n2prelude03 is offline
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I'm for sure they are not sand particles, they are clear little dots. I know its hard to believe but it looks like eggs. is there anyway that i can zoom in some more to take the picture without blurring out?
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Old 04/06/2007, 07:16 PM
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This is what mine does every so often:
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Old 04/06/2007, 08:07 PM
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Im not 100% sure, but I think all your sps corals would spawn if that was the case. They need a huge nitrogen build up - usually by feeding - to be able to spawn. Do you feed the tank alot?
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Old 04/06/2007, 08:17 PM
n2prelude03 n2prelude03 is offline
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the only thing that i fed is fish food and light. only the birdsnest is acting this way. SDguy, i think we are seeing the same thing. Did you figure out why its doing this?
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Old 04/06/2007, 08:40 PM
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my frag does this too once in a while i was wondering what was goin on with it...

any takers??
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Old 04/06/2007, 08:42 PM
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I had a thread about this. Both my colonies, no where near each other in the tank, will do this periodically, at the same time. The consensus was spawning.
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Old 04/07/2007, 12:26 AM
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i also experience the same thing happening on my birdnest. One of my table acro laid some brown eggs as well..
you know you're doing something right when occcurences like this happens.
 


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