Sexual Reproduction of my sps

[daniloronchi]

Hey guy :-)

I'm here proud to show the sexual reproduction of my Acropora Microphthalma in my reef tank.

Two nights ago she began to spawning many and many gametes on my tank... O wonderful vision!!!

I attach here some picture, in the first you can see my tank when I lighted on my t5 to stop the spawning events:



Yes, I know, my tank isn't beautiful now... I'm coming from a change of tank that gave me many and many problems... you see the big dimension of corals... (I loose one acropora formosa as big as the microphthalma you see, and one montipora fogliosa about 15inch of diameter etc etc)... so if you are interested I can post some pic of my old tank (very beautiful indeed)

Here you can see two picture where the gametes, the pink one, come out from Acropora





The Acropora is Microphthalma species.

After the spawning events I had no change in redox (about 480) and in pH (about 8.20/8.70 morning/evening), but the events take part two nights in a row, so I'm a little confused

Today I change some water (40lt on 350) and active carbon.

If you have some question, I'm here

Thanks a lot to have read my brief text and sorry for my terrible english :-))

[iantoh]

thats superb daniloronchi!!

[Baros]

Hi Danilo,

Congratulations on your corals spawning, it must be amazing to see it happening in front of your eyes.

I remember your beautiful tank from Acquaportal.

What problems did you have with your old tank?

[daniloronchi]

thats superb daniloronchi!!

thanks a lot iantoh!

Hi Danilo,

Hi Baros

Congratulations on your corals spawning, it must be amazing to see it happening in front of your eyes.

yes it is!

I remember your beautiful tank from Acquaportal.

what a memory :-)

What problems did you have with your old tank?

when I changed tank I had to manage with very big animals, 4 of them was more than 25 inch for each directions, and I did't realize how much mucus they could produce. And I had problem also because I didn't change anything but calcium reactors and reactors media, so I put in my tank a very large amount of po4.

These errors took me to loose very beautiful animals...

I leave with some pic of my old tank... (my tank was totm in acquaportal last month so if you want, and if I can, I can write the link... you say acquaportal not me)

[stony_corals]

WOW! Please post that link to acquaportal....

Did you have the same lighting system on your older tank as this one? Your redox was 480? Are you using ozone? Are you using the Blu Coral method? How old was the coral that spawned? Do you have moonlights?

Very impressive...

[daniloronchi]

Originally posted by stony_corals
WOW! Please post that link to acquaportal....

I've done more :-)

English translated page, thanks google, on my site:
http://tinyurl.com/2v7ufh

The english is google-english but I think you can understand almost everything.

All the pictures are "cliccable"

Did you have the same lighting system on your older tank as this one?

Yes I have... 8x54w T5 and I will not change more!!! Perfect, non so hot, very beautiful color...

Your redox was 480? Are you using ozone?

I don't use anything... redox, in accordance with aquatronica, was 480, I don't use ozone and I will not use in future... to much problem relate to it

Are you using the Blu Coral method?

No, only berliner method, live rock, protein skimmer (schiumatoio), light, pump, calcium reactor e no addition at all...

How old was the coral that spawned?

maybe 2 years... and very big... before I did a mistake, not 25x25x25inch but about 16x16x16inch that was impressive enough!

But I was impressed because I've change the tank in the end of april, with some problem and some losses... so I don't wait such a beautiful view

Do you have moonlights?

Yes I've... the moonlights associated with multicontroller of tunze-pump, but I don't know how the moonlight was...

Very impressive...

thanks a lot!

[RichConley]

Any temperature shifts?


Something set off this spawning event, i really dont think its the moonlights. (Corals spawn on nights with cloudcover too. Its more the tides/barometric stuff doing it in my mind)

[daniloronchi]

No temperature shift... mmmm...

In these days it's not so hot like in the past days, but meanwhile the T max it's the same, I had a shift down for T min, but nothing outside the normal conduction.

I also think that moonlights isn't the cause... but I don't know what cause can be... maybe pressure... or many things together

[mile sq. reefer]

A very rare event in our captive systems. Nice tank, healthy and thriving, the look I am striving for. Keep up the good work.

[thirschmann]

congratulations on the babies

[kirstenk]

BRAVO!!!

[stryker]

Very nice, i should be very proud!

[rharr21]

Awesome spawning pictures! Thank you for sharing them. I look forward to the day when reefers can produce/raise to maturity new corals through sexual propagation.

[RichConley]

Originally posted by mile sq. reefer
A very rare event in our captive systems. Nice tank, healthy and thriving, the look I am striving for. Keep up the good work.

I dont know if its as rare as people think....

theres been 4 or 5 threads this week about SPS spawning in people's tanks.

[hatfielj]

Overall it is a fairly rare event. Many of us sps keepers will never be fortunate enough to witness such an event in our tanks. If you do its a sign that you are doing things right and your corals are very happy. Congrats!
Danilo: How often do you change your water? Do you run carbon or phosban? Thanks!

[daniloronchi]

Hi hatfielj

Danilo: How often do you change your water? Do you run carbon or phosban? Thanks!

I usually change water on about 18 day for 5,5% capacity of the tank, but from the moment I changed tank I usually change 42 litres of about 350 lt every 2 weeks.

I usually use active carbon, 100gr inside the tank, and I change it every month, no other addictive as you can read and see here: http://tinyurl.com/2v7ufh

Thanks

[Rogger Castells]

Very nice pictures, I am glad to see there was no adverse effects, I lost almost all my fishes when I got a massive spawning event in my tank, My biggest problem was that I did not do any water changes afterwards and did not added any carbon either.


Congratulazioni!

Rogger