Weird and Cool Stuff

[BarryBobPosthole]

I have a hammer coral in my new aquarium setup (actually set up in February but it's still in the 'new' stage) called a 'frogspawn'. anyway, this morning as I was sitting here working I noticed the damn thing was spawning. First time I've ever had a coral spawn in any of my aquariums. Now its all deflated. Must have took a lot of energy to do that but there's still a couple of cool looking egg sacs still attached. These are animals in the truest sense of the word, but after a while you get to thinking of them as plants because of the way they look and grow. This is just cool as hell.

BKB

[HideHunter]

That *is* cool... cigars?

[BarryBobPosthole]

We'll have to wait and see if any of those eggs hatch. I have no idea if this is asexual reproduction or not. If so, then I'll pass out cigars! It'll be my luck a bunch of baby Patricks will grow in there.

BKB

[Arty]

Completely ignorant about this. ... So I'll ask.
Does this mean you're gonna have a bunch more? Or does it have to be fertilized?

[Arty]

Shoulda refreshed. You answered my question four minutes before I asked it.

[Thumper]

So, you sit around all day and watch coral f**k?

[Buckrub]

No.

It appears he missed that part.

[yellowk9]

So, you sit around all day and watch coral f**k?

I think he watched it ovulate, or ejaculate, or give birth, or something. I'm pretty sure the other happened first (or didn't)?

[yellowk9]

According to Wikipedia, "Individual heads grow by asexual reproduction of polyps. Corals also breed sexually by spawning: polyps of the same species release gametes simultaneously over a period of one to several nights around a full moon." Now do you know what happened? Me either.

[LJ3]

Go fuck yourself

[BarryBobPosthole]

Pretty much, yeah. Nature finds a way don't it?

BKB

[HideHunter]

Go fuck yourself

lol.. damn you LJ.. homemade apple brandy up my nose..