my start with some baby Pocillopora

[victoria]

I have collected a few pictures of some of my baby colonys. I am pretty sure these are Pocillopora. I do also have a bird nest that has been releasing babies too. Any way heres a start:







This is just a start to this thread. I will answer as many questions as I can

Victoria

[BrianPlankis]

Victoria!

Welcome to Project DIBS! Thanks for joining up I'm very excited to see that you appear to have Pocillopora babies already.

A couple of questions for you:

1. How long has the Pocillopora been in your tank? How many parent colonies do you have?

2. How long have you been noticing babies?

3. One picture is obviously the back wall, but what equipment are the other pictures of? It will be helpful to know where to start looking for these things and if they have preferential settling sites.

Brian

[victoria]

Yes they are from different colonlys. They look different from each other.

[victoria]

To answer your questions. How long have I had the colonys? I recieved the colonly from a fellow reefer about June 2005. They were very small frags with only one small branch each. I did put them in at the same time. I think I might of move one colony one time before they settled into the place they are now. Here is a picture a few months after I added them.
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I started to see the baby colonlys around July of this year. Just very small dots of intrest.
They were really settling everywhere. On the back glass. powerheads, inlets. outlets. Even on my clam. It did seem like they settled more on vertical areas than on flat surfaces. They also seemed to settle in low light places.

They started out growing slowly, but have seemed to really take off lately, turning into small colonys.

This is very new to me and I am excited to learn much more.
Have you had this happen in your tank too?
Victoria

[victoria]

Sorry I put two colonlys in at the same time. In the picture the one colonly is about 12o. The other is right behind the clam on the left side of the tank. You can barely see it.
Victoria

[BrianPlankis]

Sorry I put two colonlys in at the same time. In the picture the one colonly is about 12o. The other is right behind the clam on the left side of the tank. You can barely see it.
Victoria

I'm curious, did you get the two frags from the SAME parent colony or did the fellow reefer give you frags from two different colonies? (that weren't originally from the same colony).

Brian

[victoria]

I had to clean my powerheads. I have many pocillopora babies on them, so I removed a few and mounted them on some live rock. I will let you know how they transfered.
Victoria

[BrianPlankis]

Victoria,

Very interesting, how did you remove them from your powerheads and mount them?

Brian

[victoria]

I just scraped them off. They just popped off. I used my finger nail. It came off all in one piece. Will try to post a photo. But I'm leaving today to travel. I will get one on this board as soon as I get back. I also used super glue to attatch it to a rock.
Victoria

[victoria]

I removed a few more babys. I tryed to use a razor blade, but found that my fingernail works much better. Here's a picture after I removed them.

I took a small rock out of my tank and super glued them to it.


Then I place the rock on the bottom of the tank. Most of the babies I removed were vertical in placement. So I'm thinking to much ligh might be a shock. Here is a picture placed in my tank.


I will keep you updated on growth.

Victoria