Well, be careful with that. I have a trinoc with adapters for my SLR. It's an enormous pain. (a) The adapter goes straight to the camera body, so all you're really using is the camera sensor. But the scope winds up shooting a lot of dust into the body. (b) It's a cheaper scope and the trinoc port doesn't focus at exactly the same place that the eye pieces do. _That's_ a nightmare. To take one picture I wind up taking 70, all at slightly different focus so I hopefully get one that's clear. Not fun.
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I think I read somewhere once that just-hatched Berghia juveniles are so small that "you'll never see them." I take statements like that personally, so here are pictures of just-hatched juvenile Berghia.
Top lighting:
Through lighting (the red thing to the left is either a flatworm or a large protist so, yes, they are really small):
Top lighting:
Through lighting (the red thing to the left is either a flatworm or a large protist so, yes, they are really small):
Interestingly enough (to me at least) it looks like development is dependent on aeration. Eggs that are not jostled much hatch out 1-3 days later that eggs that are well-aerated. The older eggs are direct developers and the ones that hatch early spend the extra time in the plankton. From here:
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/179/3/243
http://www.biolbull.org/cgi/reprint/179/3/243
I'll buy some lol.
They are larvae. With corals the larvae are called planulae. They are maybe the simplest of all larvae. Just blobs really, until they settle.
For those of you that haven't seen it, I bought this coral hoping that it would be similar to these: http://www.reefstewardshipfoundation.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2159
For those of you that haven't seen it, I bought this coral hoping that it would be similar to these: http://www.reefstewardshipfoundation.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2159
Wow very cool dude! As if the blue cloves didn't grow fast enough as it is, now we have documented evidence that they are likely to spawn in captivity! Very cool! I wonder, are these truly planulae larvae that they are releasing or are they egg and sperm combined into a ball that is able to self fertilize and then settle into planular larvae? If it is either then I would assume the coral is a simultaneous hermaphrodite.
Congrats dude!
One last q, when did this take place? Was the coral spawning during daylight hours or did you catch it after lights out?
Congrats dude!
One last q, when did this take place? Was the coral spawning during daylight hours or did you catch it after lights out?