Coral spawn in June.

[Robert]

I was wondering how many other reef keepers have had their tanks spawn. It looks like I had a spawn in my 200 gal tank, all SPS except a few softy and alot of clams. I dose manual so I know it was not a cal or alk snow show. It could have been the acros or maybe the clams? It occured several hours after the lights went off.

[Texreefer]

did you add any extra filtration? keep a close eye, a big spawn event can foul a tank quickly... on the otherhand congrates, you must be doing something right

[ClownReef®]

Ive seen videos of SPS spawning.. Its pretty cool!.. But it could do some damage in a tank. Have you noticed any changes in your water parameters Robert?

[urban79]

Ya but clams would feed everything..

[Robert]

I changed my skimmer bout six months ago. Nothing new to the system. I checked the PH right away, thinking that something had gone south, Ph reading was 8.2. If the Ph keeps constant so will the Alk. I did'nt check Cal, because I dose daily keeping the Cal above 400. The ASM payed for its self many times over, that evening. Tanks doing fine. I wish I could say the same for my 480gal, can only keep softies for now.

[BIGBIRD123]

Yes the clams spawning would feed your corals but will almost always kill your fish. What it does is clogs their gills and suffocate them. I had a friend one time that had a large clam spawn. It turned the tank the color of milk and killed all his fish, but the corals looked great. Keep an eye on it though.

steve

[Richard]

The hawaiian featherdusters in m wifes 92 spawn every 2-3 weeks turning the tank to milk for 4-5 hours. Luckily it's a hiatt system so it doesn't cause any problems with params, probably makes it work better actually. The cool thing is around 5 or 6 new hawaiin featherdusters have grown in the tank.