"smoking" lobo

chrissycomeau · 09/24/2007, 10:43 AM

Help Please!! This morning when i turned the lights on my tank, it looked like my brain was "smoking"/ cloudy. It dispersed throughout the tank and only happened for like a minute, then stopped. Any idea whats going on?????

Aquarist007 · 09/24/2007, 10:46 AM

do you mean your brain or your brain coral? (:

papagimp · 09/24/2007, 10:50 AM

lol capn,

sounds like it may have been a spawning attempt. I"m not very well educated in sexual reproduction with corals so i can't say with any certaintly. Did you get any pics of this by chance?

chrissycomeau · 09/24/2007, 10:50 AM

haha!! My lobo coral!!! Any ideas what this could be????

papagimp · 09/24/2007, 10:51 AM

of course if it was smoking, may have just finished a spawning attempt, LOL

chrissycomeau · 09/24/2007, 10:51 AM

No sorry!! I didn't think of it!! Its happened 2 mornings in a row now... Literally looks like its smoking...

papagimp · 09/24/2007, 10:56 AM

spawning is all that comes to mind. I've seen my stometella's "smoking' before, and i know that's what they are doing. Broadcast spawners and just release all that lovin into the water column. Many corals do this as well, but i don't believe it's as common in home aquaria, at least not until the colonies are large enough, then it probably happens more often. May wanna jump over to one of the more topic specific forums and see what some of the experts have to say. I believe we have a coral propogation forum somewhere, at least we should if we don't already.

ahullsb · 09/24/2007, 11:56 AM

I watched a coco worm spawn in my tank. It looks like a lit cigarette that isn't being smoked. Sounds like the same thing.

Aquarist007 · 09/24/2007, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by chrissycomeau
haha!! My lobo coral!!! Any ideas what this could be????

I work with rehabilitating injured workers--alot of them have good methods of pain relief other then prescription drugs

It the brain coral near any other coral --like a leather coral---these can release a mucus when stressed.

chrissycomeau · 09/24/2007, 12:50 PM

how close? Like touching? Its about 5 inches away from devil finger leather

09/24/2007, 10:43 AM	#1
chrissycomeau Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 29	"smoking" lobo Help Please!! This morning when i turned the lights on my tank, it looked like my brain was "smoking"/ cloudy. It dispersed throughout the tank and only happened for like a minute, then stopped. Any idea whats going on?????

09/24/2007, 10:46 AM	#2
Aquarist007 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hamilton, Canada Posts: 28,240 Blog Entries: 1	do you mean your brain or your brain coral? (: __________________ I prefer my substrates stirred but not shaken Current Tank Info: 150gal long mixed reef, 90gal sump, 60 gal refugium with 200 lbs live rock

09/24/2007, 10:50 AM	#3
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	lol capn, sounds like it may have been a spawning attempt. I"m not very well educated in sexual reproduction with corals so i can't say with any certaintly. Did you get any pics of this by chance? __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

09/24/2007, 10:50 AM	#4
chrissycomeau Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 29	haha!! My lobo coral!!! Any ideas what this could be???? __________________ Life is too short to worry about the little things. "Don't sweat the small stuff". Treat each day as if it were your last. I love to live and live to love..... Current Tank Info: 40g reef

09/24/2007, 10:51 AM	#5
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	of course if it was smoking, may have just finished a spawning attempt, LOL __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

09/24/2007, 10:56 AM	#7
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	spawning is all that comes to mind. I've seen my stometella's "smoking' before, and i know that's what they are doing. Broadcast spawners and just release all that lovin into the water column. Many corals do this as well, but i don't believe it's as common in home aquaria, at least not until the colonies are large enough, then it probably happens more often. May wanna jump over to one of the more topic specific forums and see what some of the experts have to say. I believe we have a coral propogation forum somewhere, at least we should if we don't already. __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

09/24/2007, 11:56 AM	#8
ahullsb Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: sacramento, ca Posts: 2,729	I watched a coco worm spawn in my tank. It looks like a lit cigarette that isn't being smoked. Sounds like the same thing. __________________ Andy Sacramento, CA Current Tank Info: 55 gallon reef w/20 gallon sump/ER135/ 75 pounds of live rock, 4 in sandbed, 2 b&w ocellaris clowns, yellow watchman/pistol, rosy scaled wrasse, Mystery wrasse, Copperbanded Butterfly, Lighting 48" outer orbit 2 150 mh/ 4 t5 actinics

09/24/2007, 12:50 PM	#10
chrissycomeau Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Ontario Posts: 29	how close? Like touching? Its about 5 inches away from devil finger leather __________________ Life is too short to worry about the little things. "Don't sweat the small stuff". Treat each day as if it were your last. I love to live and live to love..... Current Tank Info: 40g reef