Goniopora spawning?

[Social D]

Hi, this morning my Green goniopora ejected a fairly large amount of bright green dye stuff, I bet it didnt spawn and somebody will dash my hopes but any ideas to this?
Somebody suggested it could be excess food that the coral is disposing.

Ive included a picture if that helps at all.

cheers

http://www.jasonsaquatics.co.uk/tanks/tim/goniopora.jpg

[Frogfone]

I have heard of them spawning but it was a do or die event. What it could have been was it ejecting it's zooxanthelae which is not a good thing either.

Is that a picture taken today? It is quite pale compared to ours but they do come in lots of different colours.

It could have been "pooping" I have seen our bubble coral do this quite frequently but it was a black/brown fluid.

Anyway, hope it pulls through...

Sharon

[Social D]

A Reply from John Kelly ....It doesn't look like it was dyed and food usually appears to turn black (or dark colored) after it has been sitting in the gut digesting for awhile.

I've seen goniopora release zooxanthellae (brown), but never the fluorescent proteins (green) too. Yours still contains green in it's tissue, so it doesn't appear as if it is shedding fluorescent proteins in mass quantities. I don't even know if they can do that.

When they spawn it is usually like white smoke, but maybe the gametes can also contain fluorescent proteins and yours spawned with green smoke instead of white.


My op You know what i reckon it's spawned it's in a1 health ... and is showing excellant colours... who knows?? on saying this i'm nobodys fool i still reckon it could go down hill in the next few months i might have spawned by chance but they do have a habit of giving up the goat after a few months
it would be great to come back in a years time and still have it alive... maybe i will maybe i wont.

[maroonclown]

it wont be spawning yet it will be moast definatly be zooxanthelae i have a couple of goni's and they do it every now and again i have seen them spawn around march/april time when the cold nights stop and the temp of the tank is at its moast even, what time of day do you see it?? If they are spawning they usualy do it about 1 hour before the lights go out and it looks milky white.