I think my CBS is carrying eggs..

[groupergenius]

I have a pair of CBS for a while. The bigger one has got a greenish-blue mass on it's belly. With all the corals and filtration I have, if it's eggs I'm sure they won't make it to adulthood. But it's still cool. If this turns out to be a mated pair, I will make provisions in another tank to see if I can possibly propogate CBS.
Any ideas???

 

[dawman]

If you have two they more likely are a mating pair . Otherwise they would kill each other .

 

[pat713]

We need pictures!!

 

[groupergenius]

Holy cow!!! I think the blessed event is at hand.

The egg sack has doubled in size and has turned from blue to yellow and fuzzy now. I can't get good pics with my crappy camera.

Just don't know if I should turn stuff off like the skimmer, powerheads, basically all my filtration.
Ultimately I can't feasibly do that and have to let the little buggers go through "unnatural" selection.

I hope some of the little guys make it.

 

[cannonman]

I could be wrong here but I think they might have a free swimming stage after hatching...in which case the powerheads and other filtration devices would kill them. I think to have any chance at all you would have to transfer them to a empty tank, remove the adults after hatching, use a sponge filter only and look into some specialized food for them. Keep us posted.

 

[groupergenius]

Originally Posted by Cannonman
I could be wrong here but I think they might have a free swimming stage after hatching...in which case the powerheads and other filtration devices would kill them. I think to have any chance at all you would have to transfer them to a empty tank, remove the adults after hatching, use a sponge filter only and look into some specialized food for them. Keep us posted.
I'm pretty sure about the free swimming stage as well. I have a 10 gallon tank I could put some cycled water in and try to do something. But I am soooo not ready. Whatever I do it has to have some kind of filtration, and that is the hard part.
In the tank they are in, if the pumps don't get them the corals will.