You think aptaisia are bad....
 

They're easy to deal with. I have a pocillopora problem that's getting a bit silly, and I'm not sure I can find something to eat it :) I currently have about 60 buds growing all over the place, it's a bit ridiculous.

Dwarfs angels seemed to enjoy my pocci colonies, there fun to watch grow though got any photos?

Blue clove polyps did the same thing in my tank, was cool at first but they grow EVERYWHERE so they getting a little irritating.

I have the same problem at the moment......I don't get it... the mother colony recently RTNed on me......but I've since noticed at least 10-15 babies sprouting up

why is this stuff bad? i just bought a frag of it yesterday

I don't harvest from my Pocillopora mother colony when I create new frags. I chip them off of the rocks... Has anyone ever observed the actual spawning event? I've read that they're self fertilizing but it would be pretty cool to watch when the colony releases. The closest I've come to seeing a coral spawn was when my anemone did it for a few nights in the spring of 2009.

So far I've just left these ones alone. They magically began to grow on my return plumbing at the top of the tank.

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Wow, how terrible for you guys.

It's not bad to have as a colony, mine is an awesome piece, but once they reach a certain size, they'll spawn and you end up with new buds growing everywhere. I can count about 60 new ones growing on all my rock, under other corals, etc. I have to use my pruning cutters and snip them off, which is a big job :)

I know, right??

it was neat at first when mine started to do it, but then it just becomes a pain.. harder than coraline algae to get off pumps glass ect.. and the worst is when you buy that new coral for that perfect spot you have been saving.. you go to put it in and there is a 2" suprise coral there all of a sudden....:mrgreen:


as for seeing an event. ya I saw a couple in my old tank, I think there are some videos on u-tube of some one elses going. hard to see but tons of tiny spores floating out and attaching somewhere else.

Steve

Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day! :p

"Ohhhh my corals grow TOO much. Oh it drains my soul to see them everywhere!!"

Sorry ... on the grand scale of things to whine about ... this is one of the dumber ones!!!! :p What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!

Tony, don't even get me started on retinal pain, the money I have to spend on sunglasses is going through the roof!!

Seriously tho, although it sounds trivial, it is becoming a major job to shave the buds off the rock to prevent encroaching of the other corals. A bud or two is great for free frags, but it can quickly get to plague proportions.

I will have to agree with Tony.:biggrin:

Aquattro give those babies away,iam sure some people would take them in a heart beat,i know i would trade you for something,too bad you are so far away.

After all that means your tank is doing awesome :thumb:

It's interesting to me that the longest lived coral I have in my care is a pink poci that has never budded out, bailed out, or spawned or whatever. Live through some amazingly tough events to survive through over the years but it's always held out and come back. Unfortunately due to a recent series of bad luck events I had to frag what was left of it and now all I have is about a 3/4" piece of it. I only wish it would bail out and/or spread out. :(

Kind of makes me wonder why some poci's do and some don't. Or if they all have the potential why do only some of them do it.. would be interesting to find out the triggers.

I'll trade you all the Mojanos I can find for all your Pocillopora. :mrgreen: I do constant battle with them to kill all I find and then more show up.

I do have a couple of acros that are in desperate need of fragging. There starting to overwhelm the area in the tank where they are located. The price of success in reef keeping :lol::lol:

I'll throw my aptaisia into the deal as well. I've got some very nice Toonie sized one's I'm sure would look great in your tank :D

Mine has spawned a couple of times as well, only in the past year or so and I have had the colony for about 3-4 years. NO idea what I did to make it so happy. Now I have little colonies all over so I ended up fragging off the main colony and giving it away. Its kind of neat the places they've picked to start up new colonies, places I could never manage to attach a coral to so I've freed up the spot the original colony was in for something else :razz:

I've had a couple spots where different sps have encrusted and started to grow where I didn't want them to. I found a couple of good fixes... 1 - if the rock can be taken out, torch the unwanted frag with a lighter, 2 - if not, just cover the spot where it is growing with a little marine epoxy... and a frag that you do want there... or just the epoxy if you prefer. This will smother it, and problem solved.

For the longest time, I would scrub them with a tooth brush thinking that the stress would kill them... somehow they would survive, which blows my mind.

That said... people like free SPS frags!!

I have two types of Pocci (pink and green) and they've both spawned. Pink being the most prolific. I've never seen the event, but have the evidence all over my tank. I'm finding that they are very hardy and can out sting many corals.
If you want to kill them 'naturally' place a healthy acan or something that CAN out sting them next to it, they'll zap it in a day or two!

last night I noticed a few tiny buds growing in my tank and here is the culprit.

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months ago i had found a tiny 'frag' growing ina crevasse and thought i'd busted a piece off but had no idea how it got to the other side of the tank. now all is revealed!

+1

Yeeeaaah, I'm with Tony on this one on so many levels :biggrin:

+1, no sympathy from me :biggrin: Tony stated it so nicely.

Your birdsnest did a polyp bailout, Brett? Interesting, I didn't know that coral was prone to it as well.

I'm still not feeling the sympathy for you guys though!!

At least my 3/4" poci survivor is now a 7/8" poci. 1/8" growth in 4 months! I'm just RawkingOut(tm) on the SPS growth over here. Nyah nyah! Don't be hatin'.

The little buds are mostly right near that coral and have the glowing green tips so I assume it's the birdsnest. I'll try and get some pics tonight.

Hey, I am just happy that the RTN has stopped for some time now... One day I hope to have these growth problems also.

Where can I get some of this "problem" coral from? I'd love to have this problem as well.

Another "problem" coral I am having is my Kenya trees that keep forming all over. I love it!:biggrin:

+1

I only wish I had that issue :sad:

Like ich these polyps are in EVERY marine environment. When conditions are right... BOOM!

It's actually very bad, mine spawn and keep growing buds in the middle of monti's, etc. They seem to be far more aggressive than any other SPS in my tank, so generally sting like crazy with sweepers that are 3X the size of the bud, before i find it and try to remove it. At least with aptaisia once you nuke it, it's gone, these pocci's you can't kill. :(.

I seem to have the same pink pocci's whatcaneyedo linked. I've let a few of them grow, is it normal for them to only be "healthy" at the top? it seems that as they grow the base is dieing, it bleaches then turns to rock, meanwhile the rest of the colony continues to grow. I was worried about bugs for awhile, but none of my other SPS is showing anything bad, only these pocci's.

QT, Brett, QT.....

I had mine spawn once. Kept finding little colonies all over the place. They all eventually got out stung though... Oh, alk swings help take them out too :(

They are one of the few broadcast spawners that can spawn asexually. Need feature, bad for Brad's tank :P

you know that problem where it's often difficult to mount any frags on the lower few inches of rock? I kinda got that covered now :)

Brad, where can i send a donation to help you in your plight... maybe for a new chisel? Nobody should have to deal with this. It just isn't right...

Brad,

Cry me a river:hurt::crazy:

And this is how you solve your "problem"
:laluot_14:

All the best,

Anthony

sorry brad i shouldn't have said anything =)

I'll send you my paypal info....:)

I got mine from Reefer Rob in Langley and I've sold frags from it to a lot of people since then. So you may very well have the exact same one as I do.

Only the top inch or so of mine is alive as well. Everything below that turned white and then died.

thats pretty bad.. acting like this isn't a problem at all,

I had to shut down the tank because they were getting so bad, and I am scared to put water in the new on as one of thoes buggers might hitch hike in on some live rock.. or some other hobbiest will neglect to tell me he has a poclipora problem and next thing you know I have to take everything down and start all over again......

Steve

Truly tragic...

I'm glad you're finally grasping the severity of the situation...