Full moon coral spawning

miniwhinny · 12/31/2009, 05:22 PM

What is it with this full moon stuff lol. All morning my boy horse has been chasing my girl horse all over my front lawn :huh:

and now my orange torch is spawning. I know you've probably al seen this a zillion times but it's my first and Im a proud momma lol. She's got hundreds of tiny perfectly round white eggs coming from her mouth and when the current blows her around you can see that inside her mouth is FULL of more eggs waiting to come out.

I'm sorry...I'm easily amused I guess but I do want to share for those who haven't see a spawning (which up til now was me lol)

Shane Hoffman · 12/31/2009, 05:24 PM

Awesome.....very cool and good husbandry....erm wifeandry I suppose

kingfisher62 · 12/31/2009, 05:28 PM

Thanks, I enjoyed those pictures!

miniwhinny · 12/31/2009, 05:33 PM

Thank you. I did post this on another site that I visit but really want to share here too with my RC friends. One person asked if I run moonlights and I want to repeat my reply because it "may" have some control over what's happening here...

I have one blue moonlight that's on a timer to run from 6.00 am to 10 pm so most of the night there's nothing. But the question got me thinking...we live in the High Desert in an area of Central Oregon where there is no night time light pollution so our nights are crystal clear (well when there's no clouds) I was joking about the full moon but come to think about it - my tank is in the kitchen with a huge skylight above. So in reality my tank is actually on the real moonlight cycle of full to new. There are nights when the tank is almost pitch black and nights when it's almost daylight in there at midnight! Last night was bright enough in my kitchen to see without lights on just from the full moon spilling in. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the corals natural cycles?

12/31/2009, 05:22 PM	#1
miniwhinny Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 816	Full moon coral spawning What is it with this full moon stuff lol. All morning my boy horse has been chasing my girl horse all over my front lawn :huh: and now my orange torch is spawning. I know you've probably al seen this a zillion times but it's my first and Im a proud momma lol. She's got hundreds of tiny perfectly round white eggs coming from her mouth and when the current blows her around you can see that inside her mouth is FULL of more eggs waiting to come out. I'm sorry...I'm easily amused I guess but I do want to share for those who haven't see a spawning (which up til now was me lol)

12/31/2009, 05:24 PM	#2
Shane Hoffman Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 45 mins from Chicago Posts: 2,009	Awesome.....very cool and good husbandry....erm wifeandry I suppose __________________ A wise man once said "Never play leap frog with a unicorn" Current Tank Info: 150 gallon glass with 20 gallon sump, 175lbs of coraline covered live rock, EuroReef skimmer rated for 250gal, 25watt Aqua UV sterilizer, Fluval FX5, Hamilton 3x250watt MH, 160 watt Blue actinic....Mixed reef

12/31/2009, 05:28 PM	#3
kingfisher62 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: massachusetts Posts: 4,972	Thanks, I enjoyed those pictures! __________________ 55g Tank - 216W T5's Foxface, tomato clown, yellow tailed damsel, Starrie Blennie, LPS and softies 29G Biocube- 120W LED's 2 percular clown, Six line Wrasse , LPS and softies Current Tank Info: 55 gl. Reef tank ,29g biocube Reef

12/31/2009, 05:33 PM	#4
miniwhinny Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 816	Thank you. I did post this on another site that I visit but really want to share here too with my RC friends. One person asked if I run moonlights and I want to repeat my reply because it "may" have some control over what's happening here... I have one blue moonlight that's on a timer to run from 6.00 am to 10 pm so most of the night there's nothing. But the question got me thinking...we live in the High Desert in an area of Central Oregon where there is no night time light pollution so our nights are crystal clear (well when there's no clouds) I was joking about the full moon but come to think about it - my tank is in the kitchen with a huge skylight above. So in reality my tank is actually on the real moonlight cycle of full to new. There are nights when the tank is almost pitch black and nights when it's almost daylight in there at midnight! Last night was bright enough in my kitchen to see without lights on just from the full moon spilling in. I wonder if that could have anything to do with the corals natural cycles?