fishmamma
Active Member
I recently added a frogspawn to my tank (less than one week ago) and this morning I noticed a bright green bud of some sort in the live rock on the other side of the tank. I am totally confused by this. I also added MH lights last week so at first though it something re-growing on the live rock that died back during shipping etc.. But now I am thinking this may be what happened though I am surprised since the coral has just been moved. :
"Support for this latter hypothesis comes from the third type of asexual reproduction that I have witnessed in Euphyllia corals. In this type of reproduction, which I first observed at ---- Perrin's Tropicorium, miniature polyps of a large colony of Frogspawn Coral were "ejected" when the coral was gently agitated. These daughters then sealed themselves and settled to the bottom, where they attached to the substrate. After several weeks they began to excrete a skeleton and this is how a new colony started. This latter mode of reproduction appeared to be able to produce the most offspring in that ---- reported that this colony produced two or three new daughters every day. He further acknowledged the survival rate was not that great in that the current in these tanks often moved these daughters onto other corals where they were stung and killed."
Does stress promote this type of asexual reproduction? Anyone witnessed this before and had the bud survive?
"Support for this latter hypothesis comes from the third type of asexual reproduction that I have witnessed in Euphyllia corals. In this type of reproduction, which I first observed at ---- Perrin's Tropicorium, miniature polyps of a large colony of Frogspawn Coral were "ejected" when the coral was gently agitated. These daughters then sealed themselves and settled to the bottom, where they attached to the substrate. After several weeks they began to excrete a skeleton and this is how a new colony started. This latter mode of reproduction appeared to be able to produce the most offspring in that ---- reported that this colony produced two or three new daughters every day. He further acknowledged the survival rate was not that great in that the current in these tanks often moved these daughters onto other corals where they were stung and killed."
Does stress promote this type of asexual reproduction? Anyone witnessed this before and had the bud survive?