Turbinaria Milk?

[safeuerwehr]

I put a Turbinaria in my tank this after noon and when i came home this evening the tank was cloudy...all the heads are releasing a milky substance. Does anyone know what this is? should i remove it? is this thing trying to spawn? Will it affect anything in the tank? HELP!

[Alamo]

I'd say it is spawning albert.....

[GaryP]

Many corals respond to stress by spawning or going through some other sort of reproductive strategy. For example, anemones will often split when moved or shipped. I think this may be part of the answer here.

[caferacermike]

Strange questio time...

If it is indeed spawning and skimmers work so well... Would you be able to pour your skimmate into a nano type tank to see if any of it takes? Just a little 5-10 tank with some rock. What would the chances be that any would survive and colonize the tank?

[GaryP]

Not without another turbinaria to produce eggs. That's a boy turbinaria making the milky stuff.

[caferacermike]

ahhh. Ok .... I wasn't sure if it was a hermaphroditic type. I'm still getting used to all of this coral stuff. Don't some release both?

Alfred now that you know it is a male are you going to name him?

[safeuerwehr]

I think im gonna call him Mini ME!

[JeremyGlen]

That is really strange. Never did it in my tank. The only thing I saw were small patches of yellow that would appear fall off. I have read that they slough off their top layer to clean themselves. Glad to see it likes your tank enough to get all excited.

[safeuerwehr]

lol yeah Jeremy it got all giggy with my tank water....but its stopped doing this morning and the water cleared up so im thinking it was just like they mentioned above only spawning due to change of location.....thanks again for this sexually excited coral and awesome zoas...

alfred

[JeremyGlen]

No prob