ophiura sand sifting star ?

[spongebob square pants]

I posted a few days ago about my sand sifting star laying eggs. It got up on its toes and released a bunch of yellowish eggs into the water column. It stayed on its toes for about an hour and released so many eggs my water looked cloudy. when it was finished it buried itself in the sand for a while. now it is back to normal. The day this happened I just did a water change and put new bulbs on two days before. Have you ever seen or heard of this?

 

[spongebob square pants]

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[ophiura]

Sorry, been busy at work, still
Anyway, no, haven't heard of this, but many species of echinoderms are 'prompted' to spawn through various 'shock' methods. This includes sudden changes in temperature, light, etc, and may have been the reason it spawned at this time. Consider it fresh food for the tank