This is just excess algae being released by the host, the artificial lighting stimulates excess growth of the algae living within the Zoanthid Spp. tissue and needs to expel it. If this was an egg capsule it would be an orange colour and you would have a few eggs being released prior to the egg capsule being released.
@TheBobby416 Are you asking how do you get the coral to spawn, or are you asking if once the coral has spawned how do you get the eggs to be fertilised and then grow on substratum?
A) Zoa's do spawn, both in captivity and in the wild. It is usually a once a year event.
B) Corals in general DO reproduce in captivity provided conditions are optimal. In future, please do not comment about things you are not properly informed about.
No informed aquarist refers to zoanthid reproduction as "spawning." Although they can reproduce sexually, the proper term is "gemmation." This occurs when local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual.
Zoas create a matting & 9/10 the new polyps emerge asexually from the matting. The only reason you would see a polyp floating away (if that what is actually being shown in this video), is if it became dislodged from the matting.
Long story short, Zoas don't "spawn" and shoot polyps out. Also, it is not "usually a once a year event." The zoas I own multiply constantly. And finally, conditions can be FAR from optimal and zoas can still reproduce.
Yes, zoas "multiply" constantly by gemmation/'matting' but they also commonly release spawn once a year, which is the yearly event I was referring to - I was not making any comment about the usual forms of reproduction that commonly take place both in the wild and in our tanks. The focus both of the video and the conversation was on the yearly spawn (releasing polyps into the current) not the constant reproduction (gemmation as you have touched on).
can you post a link that deals with the yearly event?
When you said zoas reproduce in captivity provided conditions are optimal I just laughed. I dont know of any conditions under which zoas wont reproduce. Even my little quarantine tank - which runs like a 7K single light strip and constantly has recovering frags in it - has a matting of zoas on the substrate.
Oh and by the way this video and video #2 shows a zoa releasing waste through its "mouth." I just watched it blown up on my TV and it's MUCH more clear.
c'est beau
fredeau29240 1 month ago
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jimicasper 4 months ago
very pretty ones, congratulations !
DerErwecker 5 months ago
Thats what those little balls are? I guess mine spawned last week. Crazy...
aaronvaz1 6 months ago
Nice looking zoas...
akcessdenied 9 months ago
looked like the zoa pooped not spawned, it the spawn normally covered in detritus?
sean32laf 9 months ago
I would hardly call this a spawning event....
ladyangler3 10 months ago
This is just excess algae being released by the host, the artificial lighting stimulates excess growth of the algae living within the Zoanthid Spp. tissue and needs to expel it. If this was an egg capsule it would be an orange colour and you would have a few eggs being released prior to the egg capsule being released.
djyeshua 1 year ago
@djyeshua How do you get the spawn to grow?
TheBobby416 11 months ago
@TheBobby416 Are you asking how do you get the coral to spawn, or are you asking if once the coral has spawned how do you get the eggs to be fertilised and then grow on substratum?
djyeshua 11 months ago
looks to be pooping to me rather then spawning
scubaguyron 1 year ago
@onlywhenpissed You're an idiot.
Zanomatt 1 year ago
I thought zoas reproduced by just producing new buds. What conditions make them spawn?
dasadler123 1 year ago
where did you get them
amazonianking 2 years ago
lol
sbanks78 2 years ago
poop
D3monicUrges 2 years ago
Zoa's Don't Spawn!
Tank2379 2 years ago
very nice looking zoa's. I wish my LFS sold ones like that... It's just always plain green zoa's.
reefdebt 3 years ago 2
A) Zoa's do spawn, both in captivity and in the wild. It is usually a once a year event.
B) Corals in general DO reproduce in captivity provided conditions are optimal. In future, please do not comment about things you are not properly informed about.
Nice vid kellevand.
courtnjames 3 years ago 9
No informed aquarist refers to zoanthid reproduction as "spawning." Although they can reproduce sexually, the proper term is "gemmation." This occurs when local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual.
SROD12321 2 years ago
Zoas create a matting & 9/10 the new polyps emerge asexually from the matting. The only reason you would see a polyp floating away (if that what is actually being shown in this video), is if it became dislodged from the matting.
Long story short, Zoas don't "spawn" and shoot polyps out. Also, it is not "usually a once a year event." The zoas I own multiply constantly. And finally, conditions can be FAR from optimal and zoas can still reproduce.
You should take your own advice bud ;)
SROD12321 2 years ago
Yes, zoas "multiply" constantly by gemmation/'matting' but they also commonly release spawn once a year, which is the yearly event I was referring to - I was not making any comment about the usual forms of reproduction that commonly take place both in the wild and in our tanks. The focus both of the video and the conversation was on the yearly spawn (releasing polyps into the current) not the constant reproduction (gemmation as you have touched on).
courtnjames 2 years ago
can you post a link that deals with the yearly event?
When you said zoas reproduce in captivity provided conditions are optimal I just laughed. I dont know of any conditions under which zoas wont reproduce. Even my little quarantine tank - which runs like a 7K single light strip and constantly has recovering frags in it - has a matting of zoas on the substrate.
SROD12321 2 years ago
Oh and by the way this video and video #2 shows a zoa releasing waste through its "mouth." I just watched it blown up on my TV and it's MUCH more clear.
SROD12321 2 years ago
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Zoos don't spawn. Lmao
ForumBoosters 3 years ago
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coral doesnt spawn in captivity
NEVERxSUBMIT 3 years ago
Amazing zoas! Have you made frags of these?
thewatersnake 3 years ago
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dude thats shit. mine zoo's do it all the time..
jessef2502 4 years ago
It looks to me as if they are simply releasing excess zooxanthellae and not spawn ?
TheWayner1 4 years ago