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06-20-2011, 03:26 AM
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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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06-20-2011, 04:23 AM
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 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
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06-20-2011, 04:56 AM
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Yeah, see ... I'm sorry but I'm just not feeling any sympathy. I'll trade you tank troubles any day!
 "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!!!! What's next, the colours are too bright? Oh, the saturation hurts my retinas!!! You have no idea how terrible it is!
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06-20-2011, 05:30 AM
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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.
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06-20-2011, 05:34 AM
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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.
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06-20-2011, 02:17 PM
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I'll trade you all the Mojanos I can find for all your Pocillopora.
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 
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06-20-2011, 05:34 AM
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I will have to agree with Tony.  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 
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11-07-2011, 04:21 PM
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