My Two Yellow Acro. Humilis Spawned Last Sunday

[Achilles Tang]

Hi everyone,

Just to let you SPS nutters know that my two new yellow humilis acros spawned simultaneously in my tank on Sunday afternoon.

My water was damn cloudy and I had to do a 40% water change... before the water became clearer.

The spawning took place for about an hour. You can see 'smoke' rising from the colonies... lol!

I experienced wonder, joy and surprise until my water turned cloudy and then panic set in... hahaha... hence, the water change. On hindsight, it may not have been necessary as I think my skimmer could have taken care of it... but oh well... when you have thousands of dollars of acros... gee....

Anyway, I will post a photo of it tonight when i get home!

AT

[Tanzy]

Spanked the acro?

[Achilles Tang]

Here's the only clear shot I got, coz my glass was smudgy and the water was cloudy...

[Mellow]

cool...imagine having a few hundred more humilis growing out soon...haha..or at least, the sperm is good food for your corals!!! seldom hear spawning events taking place in reef aquarium..... just a thought...but could the humilis have spawned so quickly?? afterall. u just bought them and they're still recovering from the shipping and still getting used to your tank??? certainly hope they really did spawned but what if it wasn't and was actually some other event which i do not know myself??? just wondering...

[Achilles Tang]

Frankly, I am as surprised as you. Tanzy says it could be a stress response... but just my two yellow humilis?

[Mellow]

yah, might be stress response...but who knows...it could really be spawning. i'll like to think of it as spawning too...and you can start farming humilis already..haha...all the best!

[Achilles Tang]

Nah.. didn't see any eggs floating out from one of the two colonies.

It was just probably sperm clouds.