Sun Coral Making Babies BroadcastSpawn (tubastrea faulkneri)

My pink faulkneri tubastrea broadcast spawning into the tank. With the "pellets" it also releases a slime, sometimes separately from a completely different polyp. I assume this is to help the "pellet" to adhere to a proper location.

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Pets & Animals

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• suncoral
• tubastrea
• cupcoral
• tubecoral
• marine
• reef
• saltwater
• aquatic

[massacreman69]

how long does it take for these babies to get as big as the one in youre video?

[YayHeaven]

@massacreman69 I think a lot of it depends on environmental conditions and how often they receive nutrients. In captivity assuming the colony ate very frequently and was really set up to thrive, I could imagine a dozen or more heads and about the size of a golf ball in perhaps 18 months? I couldn't say for sure, it's just my estimate based on the rate of growth out of the already-established tubastreas I have worked with.

[enterthafatass]

yay babies! o wait nooooooooooooooo not the filter! a generation gone...

[YayHeaven]

lol...it's not so bad. I have about 6 babies that are growing new colonies on rocks throughout the tank, but yeah...filters not good for babies.

[ZZMann33]

I also have one of those but I know it as a tube coral. How offten do they spawn like that. I think is cool when they extend thier tenticals at night. Pretty coral.

[YayHeaven]

Hi,

My ball-shaped ones seem to do this about every 6 weeks, but only this ball shaped kind. I've never seen the branching ones do this.

[1legions]

I think my fishes would snack on the little suckers...haha

[Tortoiseius]

asombroso!

[palmbeauties]

ah i sent that to you months and months ago and when you replied i did not even think it was for me. I forgot. The issue with that sun is what I thought just dead and empty. I took it back and they said oh we should had looked better. It had only a shell. I bought another from a different store and it opens big time and never even looked like the other but for colro. It was a dead coral.

[mak3myda3]

Light doesnt matter for they are non-photosynthetic and dont use liht. You need to feed them every other day. You can try to get tem to open by putting a cut open top of a bottle and squirt some cyclopeeze in there and try to get them to open. Then feed them as much brine and mysis and krill as you can

[aquanair01]

you just made me want one of those!!!! thank you for the video info.. great video

[nanobudsNR]

what i do is find where the eggs land and start to grow, then when the baby sin corals start to grow a skeleton about half an inch in diameter you can use your finger nail to scrape them off the rock then glue them to some rubble

[Ummfish1]

Congratulations! Tubastrea are brooders, though. Those are planula larvae. Good luck on raising them!

[palmbeauties]

My sun coral what they called a sun polyp which has a hard shell never opened. I have great light and all else always opens. The store told me to put at the bottom and try that in a bit of a shaded area. Nothing worked. Do you think it is just a shell? Also is your soft or hard. That video is awesome.