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I was checking out the inside of my overflows tonight (I like looking at all the sponges growing in there  ) and what do i see but what appears to be a tiny pocillipora growing in there.It's about the size of a well used pencil eraser. Are pocillipora brooders? Of course I have no idea what to do about it, it's attached to the glass and can't be getting a lot of light nor is it a place I want a coral to grow...oh well
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Are pocillipora brooders?
Yep. Congratulations! You should wander around over here:
http://www.projectdibs.com
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[quote]Hello fellow DIBSians! The year 2007 features four breeder challenges where we are creating easy to follow
procedures to breed some difficult to breed invertebrates. We are working with:
two corals (Manicina areolata and Pocillopora damicornis), one genus of gastropod (Trochus sp.) and one shrimp (Thor amboinensis).[/quote]
You've got one down and only three to go! 
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Umm_fish (8/20/2007)
Are pocillipora brooders? Yep. Congratulations! You should wander around over here: http://www.projectdibs.comA quote from the news: Hello fellow DIBSians! The year 2007 features four breeder challenges where we are creating easy to follow
procedures to breed some difficult to breed invertebrates. We are working with:
two corals (Manicina areolata and Pocillopora damicornis), one genus of gastropod (Trochus sp.) and one shrimp (Thor amboinensis). You've got one down and only three to go! Thanks for the link umm fish, Actively breeding corals is a bit more ambitious then I want to get. I'm just happy that I am able to supply a healthy enviroment for my pets  I do have breeding ceriths coming out the wazoo though (look similar to cerith #3). When the lights go out there are so many on the glass that you can't see in
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Nice! Any possibility that we might buy some from you? Our hobby needs more tank inhabitants that are willing and able to reproduce in captivity.
BTW, anyone who regularly checks the overflows just to see how the sponges are growing would really fit into the community over at DIBS really well!
While I was setting up the link for you, I realized that if you are signed up as a breeder you can't see all of the Pocillipora threads. But then I forgot to come back and answer your question. Sorry. Be careful, because if the recruit falls into the depths of the overflow, you'll likely never see it again. You can take the small colony off the glass by sliding a razor behind the colony. Then, pull it out of the water, pat the backside dry with a paper towel, and then you can use a superglue gel to attach it to a substrate of some sort (the substrate has to be fairly dry, too).
Good luck!
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Umm_fish (8/22/2007)
Nice! Any possibility that we might buy some from you? Our hobby needs more tank inhabitants that are willing and able to reproduce in captivity.
I usually just give them away by the dozen but I live in canada and getting them to you could be a problem
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I've found 4 more babies. One of them settled on my heater  I think I better remove it before winter sets in 
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I live in canada
Aha! Too bad for me....
Congratulations on all of the reproduction in your tank!
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Someone bump this thread later for me and I will post a list of brooders and corals that can and should be used to advance the hobby side of sexually producing corals. P damicornis is a great one to start with and I think this could become an interesting thread. More to come.
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Eric Borneman (8/25/2007)
Someone bump this thread later for me and I will post a list of brooders and corals that can and should be used to advance the hobby side of sexually producing corals. P damicornis is a great one to start with and I think this could become an interesting thread. More to come.Bumping this thread back up, I for one would be interested in stocking my tank with corals that will reproduce
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Have you thought about Tubastrea, Marie? You have to feed them to ensure that they get enough food as they don't host zooxanthelae, but if you feed them well they will reproduce. The juvenile polyps are easy enough to gently scrape off the glass or whatever and it's not hard to glue them to tile or some other sort of artificial substrate. And, tanks with lots of tubastrea are just gorgeous.
Good luck!
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