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| Hello Anthony, Atlanta Mafiaman (chris) Here. I know SPALLED is not the right word but it discribes whats going on the best. I have a Cantalope sized Pocillapora (damicornis) Or should I say HAD! Don't worry the mother lives but I now have no less than 250 starter colonies thru out my tank (340g 11' long reef) Anthony, I have Turbo snails (about 15 of'm) walking around with grape sized colonies of Pocillapora growing on them. I got this monster 1.5 years ago as a lemon sized coral from Andy (Myreef) and revenge is on my list for him! Now I know most people want your help growing corals. I need to know how to stop them! Is there an underwater RoundUp? How do I get rid of this stuff without harming my othe colonies.?? Help me Bra!!
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| Wow, That sounds amazing that you can get 250 starter colonies from one mother colony. Your experience is what a lot of reefers dream about happening in their tank. I don't know how to stop them without poisoning the rest of your tank, but I would like to suggest an alternative approach: Sell them. Chip as many off your rocks as you can and sell/trade them to local reefers until you saturate your market. Then try to find some LFS that would be willing to buy some to get more cash or store credit. If you still have some left then you can do online sales and maybe find a wholesaler or online website willing to buy the rest. Market them as captive spawned (because hopefully that makes them more valuable/interesting to people). Anthony might be able to help you with more ideas, but your tank is an example of what the future of spawning corals can be like. Brian
7 years FW, 5 years SW
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heehee... "spalled" is an interesting description  Too funny  Acts of asexual planulation in Pocillopora damicornis have been rather common in aquaria for over ten years. The species is so hardy and easy to trip that its a lead candidate for scientific research as well (a vehicle for studies requiring numerous clones of ther same cnidarian). The settled planulae can themselves planulate as soon as 4 months of age.  You need to learn how to skillfully use a chisel or give up the mother colony if you want rid of the species in the tank  Stopping reproduction is not an option here. Kudos on the tank husbandry (feeding really... heavy bioload from fishes and/or use of zooplankton substitutes such as baby Artemia, rotifers, cyclop-eeze, etc.) that caused the act of planulation.
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| Anthony, why don't you think this is polyp bail out? I thought that bail out was much more common than spawning. Was I wrong?
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| Polyp bail out is not more common than planulation in numbers like you've mentioned here, and your specimen is mature (a likely cadidate) as well as without mention of being significantly denuded of several hundred polyps from any event of bailout! It simply planulated my friend. Invest in a mesoscope and you can seriously enjoy peeping the brooding of such larvae.
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| I have seen this behavior with poccilopora many times and I always assumed it was bail out. Other than a bald spot on the mother colony how else can you tell the difference between planulation and bail out?
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as per the post above my friend... an observation of the brooding in situ pre-event. Afterwards the copious number of settled larvae relative to polyp bail out (smaller numbers and a usually piqued looking donor )
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Bennihanna (2/15/2006)
I have seen this behavior with poccilopora many times and I always assumed it was bail out. Other than a bald spot on the mother colony how else can you tell the difference between planulation and bail out?I don't know how much this matters to this conversation but the mother colony never had a bald spot, as a matter of fact there were no visible changes other than a slight growth spert in the mother colony. And of course hundreds of starter colonies that are now all larger than a checker piece.
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