It seems my palythoas might have spawned. The other day before leaving for Germany I noticed a brown ball coming out from either my sea cabbage coral or the palythoa patch and I thought could they be spawning? Nah noway. Then when I came back it looks like a small tiny patch of stalks looking very similar to the palythoas has starting on a rock about a half a foot a way (the direction the ball went) except MUCH smaller. Could they have spawned? They are quite crowded on the rock they are on, could that cause it? (provided they did spawn). I’ll try to get some pics but it is hard.
Generally, when corals spawn it is because they have completly grow into what space is avalible, so they can turn their energy from growth to reproduction. This is why we dont see spawning events in most tanks… we keep the corals trimmed so that they are always growing. It is quite possible that the palys did spawn, and if they did there is no guarentee what color the offspring will be. Can you take some pics of the parents and the new colony?
I’ll try, they are in a difficult position in the tank to take a picture. Would the new colony be MUCH smaller than the parent colony?
It should only be a couple polyps, and the size would be much smaller, so yes. It could be something else, but thats where pics come in… it would help us tell if it was something different or you did indeed get a sucessful spawning in your tank. (Time will also help as they should grow)
Its hard to see the spawn… but I tried.
Huh… cant really tell. If it starts growing into a paly then it probably did spawn.
Yea, its hard to see but those are tall stalks with long fingers (compared to the size) and brownish like the palys.