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Also today all the eggs seem to be stored at the base of the cloves, they are in a low current area, so mabie thats why but IDK..
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very cool!
a little tip
if you use the IMG code in photobucket instead of the http link you will embed the image in the post instead of a link to it.
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lol, My pics are 4000x3000 i did not want to resize and compromise picture quality Thanks for the tip
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These cloves are still holding eggs...They are going to destroy my tank huh...Also will these grow over all my acans/blastos ect..?
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Acanthastrea are pretty good at holding their own. They can out-compete many of the corals we keep. I don't know whether they can out-compete the specific coral you have.
But, don't count your corals 'til they settle....
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Thanks, i hope they don't take over everything, i found a few new polyops about 6 inches from the mother colony...I dont know if its from the eggs, or if they just settled from the main colony..
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With your description and the literature, this sounds like surface brooding. In this case, you would expect relatively high levels of settlement from the larvae that develop on the maternal colony surface. Some of these corals are good at space monopolization especially after a disturbance or given area to colonize, but they won't compete well with stony corals, especially aggressive ones, as they stay short in height (although overgrowth may be more of an issue in closed systems). I just got back from an area that was a shallow reef flat that had also been bombed in areas, and Clavularia was thriving, but in the second photo, you see the same area 50m away and there is no question what is dominating. Personally, I'd be thrilled. Everyone can keep Acanthastrea, but few have regular spawnings and successful settlement of any coral, much less this beautiful soft coral. Personally, I would even let them take over the tank and start a new tank and use this as a breeding tank to get this species into the trade - you would pay for your hobby, be doing the reefs a service and the hobby a service. Photos in next post.
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This is a progression swimming over the area. This is less than a meter deep at low tide, almost exposed. You can see how Palythoa and Calvularia exploit the area until stonies dominate where undisturbed.
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Eric, i never thought of it that way,(breeding in another tank) I will be getting a new tank shortly, Something else i noticed today,I wish i knew the Lingo sorry... In the stalk of the cloves there are eggs again, but inside the coral still!!! so i think they are going to do this again...Also i found a bunch of baby cloves,They are every where(to tiny for pics) i thought there was only a few, until further inspection with a magnifying glass=)..Would it help if i colected eggs and sent them to you, i read somewhere, that This coral may self fertalize ? the eggs would tell the story, no ?
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