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What are these things???





Thanks
Garrett

Eggs, looks like your gsp is spawning. Are your fish eating them?

No they are not eating them. so if they let go will they start to grow where the eggs land? should I take them out??

No, there's no baby daddy to fertilize them. Usually they just get eaten or sucked into the filtration. Shouldn't hurt anything.

Yup they look like eggs. But they look more like encrusting Gorgonian (Erythropodium caribaeorum) rather than Green Star Polyps. They regularly spawn in the wild (Caribbean) mostly in late summer ..early fall. From what I read on Advanced Aquarist (Oct. 2008 issue) most Gorgonian species reproduce by brooding where fertilized eggs are held internally and released by the parent colony. So it is possible that you dont need a daddy to make babies in the coral world! In any case I wont be too worried about it. Thanks for sharing. Its pretty rare. Vishnu

Yes they are encrusting Gorgonian, I got them from you Vishnu when I came the first time. They spread like wild fire!!!

Thanks for the info.

To bad I did not have a better camera I could have got a nicer shot and maybe a spot in the reefkeeper magazine!!

Yes even these pictures are worth posting on other forums. I havent seen any accounts of these species spawning in captivity. So its a nice thing.

Do you have any other ones I could post it on? I have a post on TCMAS.

My wife was reading what you had said about the pctures and asked me if you were a geinus... . I told her that you know alot about this hobby and told her one day I hope to have the
knowledge that you have Vishnu.

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Hehe. No genius. Just love this hobby. Always learn something new each day. We should have you guys over at our place again once my wife gets back from overseas.

Ya that would be fun. I can't remember what movie that my son was going to barrow from you tho. I think it was a cartoon from overseas??