Frogspawn Spawning?

[calpoly12]

So I have recently noticed that my frogspawn occasionally has one extremely long tentacle, Im talking about 3-5 inches longer than the others. I didnt really think much of it until the other day when I saw something peculiar the sand of the tank. It looked like a small "ball" of frogspawn that was bright green and slightly orange. The ball was about 1/4 the size of a pencil eraser and was being blown around the tank. It did land on my leather and burn it pretty bad but its recovering in the QT tank. These balls have been produced about twice a week for the past two weeks, anyone have any idea what the frogspawn is doing? water params are perfect, etc etc. The frogspawn itself shows no signs of distress or sickness. Anyway, let me know what you guys think.

 

[Kevin8888]

sounds like its self fragmenting, though i've never heard of this type of coral doing this

 

[FLESHY]

Sometimes you will see tentacles get long and stringy like this...I dont think it is a method of reproduction.

I have actually had euphyillia sp. spawn in my tanks before...they will actually dump eggs out into the h2o.

I was lucky enough to be sitting in front of the tank when this happened and got some pictures....I will see if I can dig them up.

 

[calpoly12]

just realized i never responded to your response lol. Anyway the frogspawn isnt doing the long tentacle thing anymore so I have no idea what it was doing lol. anyway check out my other post fleshy, need some assistance on the sump,etc.

 

[FLESHY]

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/general-lps-discussion/44076-anyone-have-corals-spawn.html

Heres a link to my thread where I have pictures of the frogspawn coral with eggs inside its polyps after squirting out the first batch. I cant believe that I was just sitting there when it happened.

I would upload again to this site, but those pictures are no longer on my computer.

 

[calpoly12]

that is awesome!!!!!!!!

 

[Sumtinsfishy]

It's probably using that long tentacle as a sweeper tentacle. They will send out sweeper tentacles sometimes when hungry n in search of food, or combating other corals for domain. Pretty certain thats what it is, they get them quite often. Hope that helps.

 

[calpoly12]

It's probably using that long tentacle as a sweeper tentacle. They will send out sweeper tentacles sometimes when hungry n in search of food, or combating other corals for domain. Pretty certain thats what it is, they get them quite often. Hope that helps.

That does seem to be what it is, thanks for letting me know what it is!

 

[FLESHY]

that is awesome!!!!!!!!

Thanks, I thought it was pretty insaneo as it was happening too. My fish thought it was awesome ha.