Eric Borneman's Pocillopora Breeding Log - Page 2

Eric Borneman · 03-30-2007, 04:21 PM

the broodstock tanks

graveyardworm · 03-30-2007, 06:12 PM

All I can say is WOW.

Eric Borneman · 03-30-2007, 07:14 PM

Jen, I'd be happy to part with some of the babies so long as we maintain a control on how many you take and we have them on consignment to you or until you invoice Brian if and when they are sold. I mean, I clearly have enough to be producing a lot of juveniles, so if local people want more to increase their stock over the interim and perhaps aid in breeding (maybe some sperm at one year?), I have no problems doing this. However, i would leave it up to Brian to arrange the logistics of this, especially in the case of mortality if it occurs.

Jen · 03-30-2007, 07:23 PM

I have no problem with them staying the property of DIBS. I just am ready to help and since mine are not reproducing yet, this would give me something to do. Your tanks look awsome. You must be a proud papa. I will talk to Brian and see if this is something that he wants to do.

Jen

Eric Borneman · 03-30-2007, 07:38 PM

And here are some of the mounted babies (about 75) and a photo of the biggest baby - the first I found - about six months old now - and that's 1.5" PVC. Also, note the colony next to it. Never allow fire coral to get near anything you don't want it to encrust. I will have to frag that colony quickly.

Redstratplayer1 · 03-30-2007, 08:23 PM

WOW !!!

I want a P. damicornis on PVC pipe lol

Eric Borneman · 03-31-2007, 11:25 AM

Yeah, unfortunately that one grew a little too big before I got to remove it, so it has its home there. I have to pop all those other ones off the powerhead before the same thing happens.

Eric Borneman · 05-27-2007, 08:10 PM

Sorry about my absence. I was looking at my tank and saw a little white dot head down on a marble chip, so I pipetted it off, and as suspected here was the larva.

So, Brian, here's what you were after. Lots of zooxanthellae, especially at the oral end. I'll get better photos as I capture more now that I have good traps built. Photos also below. These are 4" PVC caps filled with quick dry cement and a smooth cap of epoxy on top. The rigid mesh is 4" fish trap strainer from Aquatic Eco and I siliconed plankton mesh using four beads to the inside. These fit right over the caps.

BrianPlankis · 05-27-2007, 08:19 PM

Eric,

Thanks for the larvae picture

So at that stage would it still be called a planula? I'll have to include that in my IMAC presentation.

Brian

"Umm, fish?" · 05-27-2007, 11:32 PM

Yep, a planula is the free-swimming larval stage of a coral before settlement. Eric, did I get everything into the definition that's supposed to be there? Did I leave anything out?

Thanks!