e.glabrescens spawn and i have babies now

["Umm, fish?"]

Congratulations, Hans-Werner! Good information. I hope you get a lot more settling for you.

[amashun]

Nice write up Hans and congratess for the spawn and babies. thanks for sharing this infos with us and welcome to RSF.

Yeah i also have countless Pocillopora sp. babies in my tank and they spawn like crazy. my stylophora sp. also spawn all the time but never able to collect any babies.

I agree with you completely that there must be something do with the MH lights because i have my QT up and running for a while now but i never seen any coral spawning event at all as i use the same water supplier for both tank, consider same husbandry, temperature...etc

Cheers,
Adrian

[Hans-Werner]

Thanks for the congrats!

I found another similarity to Adrian´s tank and a difference. The temperature in our tanks is swinging too. Now in the winter we have down to 22.5/23°C in the morning and 25/26°C in the evening. In the summer we have up to 29/30°C in the evening.

The difference is that we use synthetic seawater.

I do not exactly feed the tanks but I add a bacteria food once to twice a week that makes the LPS expanding their polyps better.

Hans-Werner

[amashun]

yep, maximum temperature for this year is 30.5°C. during summer i let it sit around 28-29°C. last year was 31°C and we don't have a chiller. winter is around 25/26°C constantly. corals grow dramatically well, i have a frag from wild collection that grows into a massive colony in 8 months. the only food that i feed my coral is NHBBS possibly once a week depends on whether i'm busy with work or not....

btw, my QT use T5s only (i'm thinking to upgrade it to LED), BB, few KG of LR, no sand/DSB and no macro algae. filtration only use oversize protein skimmer, i think this is what people call "modern reef"? but it really suits my QT purpose perfectly and i can strip it down real quick if anything turns bad. i think i will try to move one of the pocillopora sp. baby to the QT and see how it goes. would be really interested to see if it starts to spread again

Adrian

[Eric Borneman]

I will be in Singapore for spawning this April, and apparently there are a lot of Euphyllia. I am curious to see them spawn since they appear to be tentacle brooders in captivity.

[amashun]

Cool Eric, please let us know what you see. i'm very keen to hear how they spawn please.