SPS asexual budding pics
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Curtswearing
Mantisfreak
Albert,
I always love your pictures!!!
I always love your pictures!!!
SueT
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great pics..
spongebob lover
flea whisperer
very kewl pictures dood 
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.james734
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That is cool.
LakeEd
Achilles
SUPER Photography!!!
Krish
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That's truely amazing! Great photos man...
shallowreef
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Awesome!!!!!!!
ReefferMan
Fish out of water
what are you using for a cam?
Reefreak
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Very Cool!
Curtswearing
Mantisfreak
Great Pic....Now go to bed.
A little play with remote flash and I got it! :lol: As you can see at ten-o'clock direction, there is another bud forming and ready to drop off soon. :razz: I'm not sure would this be a good or bad sign. The coral looks very healthy and no signs of any stress.
bradreef
always kidding
The pavona I would believe but the acro It would be hard to imagine the tip breaking itself off and doing that. I would tink something would have to break the tip off first. Or it would drop tissue and then create the skeleton.
kevinpo
Expert
It is likely quite healthy
Many of the large polyp corals exhibit this behavior. IME some corals only do this when mounted a certain way. Like when mounted more horizontal than vertical. I believe it is just another option for the coral to reproduce.I have never seen or heard of Acropora doing this (which certainly doesn't mean it can't happen
). I have bumped (or my fish have) the soft new tips and seen them attached by a thread like in your picture. They eventually fall off and can form new colonies where they land (even on the substrate).You might drop a note in Anthony's forum to have him take a look here and comment.
Regards,
Kevin
Anthony Calfo
Well-known member
agreed... the acro simply was dinged by a fish, hand or some other mechanical action.
The tissue dripping on stonies too at large is most often (most always really) a stress induced response. Make no mistake that water quality alone in tanks that are averaging the likes of more than one coral per ten gallons(!) are stressful. You would never see that kind of diversity on the reef suceeding for years if even months. You simply will not find 50, 30 or even 20 corals in a square meter... and that with massive dilution on the reef (quite unlike your pervasively degrading water quality in aquaria, weak water change schedule, et cetera). And if you did find 50 corals in a 100 gallon volumetric space on the eef... you would not find the same ones happily together 6, 12 and 24 months later. It just is unnatural and prohibitively competitive/non-conducive to natural settlement.
Planulation (asexual and sexual) instead is a conditioned reproductive event that occurs in time.
Bailout and tissue drips however are imperative reproductive strategies that are executed when the luxury of time (conditoning/seasonal influences/prepping) is not on their side.
That doesn't mean the colony will die by any means... but lets not entertain the illusion either that this coral is not embattled or stressed like the rest of our colonies in the noxious soup we call reef aquaria.
There is a reason why you do not have all the corals that you started with after 2 or 3 years
And we see the fruits of low species diversity tanks in the old European tanks. Really quite magnificent specimens in large displays that start with one fifth the number of corals that American, English/UK and Chinese aquarists typically use (too many, too fast, and too early in tank setups)
Sorry to be a buzzkill if so... but it is what it is. Polyp drips and bailouts are the (comparatively) fast and dirty reproductive strategies. Form follows function most always.
The tissue dripping on stonies too at large is most often (most always really) a stress induced response. Make no mistake that water quality alone in tanks that are averaging the likes of more than one coral per ten gallons(!) are stressful. You would never see that kind of diversity on the reef suceeding for years if even months. You simply will not find 50, 30 or even 20 corals in a square meter... and that with massive dilution on the reef (quite unlike your pervasively degrading water quality in aquaria, weak water change schedule, et cetera). And if you did find 50 corals in a 100 gallon volumetric space on the eef... you would not find the same ones happily together 6, 12 and 24 months later. It just is unnatural and prohibitively competitive/non-conducive to natural settlement.
Planulation (asexual and sexual) instead is a conditioned reproductive event that occurs in time.
Bailout and tissue drips however are imperative reproductive strategies that are executed when the luxury of time (conditoning/seasonal influences/prepping) is not on their side.
That doesn't mean the colony will die by any means... but lets not entertain the illusion either that this coral is not embattled or stressed like the rest of our colonies in the noxious soup we call reef aquaria.
There is a reason why you do not have all the corals that you started with after 2 or 3 years
And we see the fruits of low species diversity tanks in the old European tanks. Really quite magnificent specimens in large displays that start with one fifth the number of corals that American, English/UK and Chinese aquarists typically use (too many, too fast, and too early in tank setups)
Sorry to be a buzzkill if so... but it is what it is. Polyp drips and bailouts are the (comparatively) fast and dirty reproductive strategies. Form follows function most always.
