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BarryBobPosthole
09-19-2013, 12:33 PM
I have a hammer coral in my new aquarium setup (actually set up in February but it's still in the 'new' stage) called a 'frogspawn'. anyway, this morning as I was sitting here working I noticed the damn thing was spawning. First time I've ever had a coral spawn in any of my aquariums. Now its all deflated. Must have took a lot of energy to do that but there's still a couple of cool looking egg sacs still attached. These are animals in the truest sense of the word, but after a while you get to thinking of them as plants because of the way they look and grow. This is just cool as hell.
BKB
HideHunter
09-19-2013, 12:54 PM
That *is* cool... cigars?
BarryBobPosthole
09-19-2013, 01:01 PM
We'll have to wait and see if any of those eggs hatch. I have no idea if this is asexual reproduction or not. If so, then I'll pass out cigars! It'll be my luck a bunch of baby Patricks will grow in there.
BKB
Completely ignorant about this. ... So I'll ask.
Does this mean you're gonna have a bunch more? Or does it have to be fertilized?
Shoulda refreshed. You answered my question four minutes before I asked it.
Thumper
09-19-2013, 01:57 PM
So, you sit around all day and watch coral f**k? ;)
Buckrub
09-19-2013, 02:06 PM
No.
It appears he missed that part.
yellowk9
09-19-2013, 03:28 PM
So, you sit around all day and watch coral f**k? ;)
I think he watched it ovulate, or ejaculate, or give birth, or something. I'm pretty sure the other happened first (or didn't)?
yellowk9
09-19-2013, 03:30 PM
According to Wikipedia, "Individual heads grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon." Now do you know what happened? Me either.
BarryBobPosthole
09-19-2013, 03:39 PM
Pretty much, yeah. Nature finds a way don't it?
BKB
HideHunter
09-19-2013, 08:04 PM
Go fuck yourself
lol.. damn you LJ.. homemade apple brandy up my nose..:spank
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