Coral mass spawning in Singapore!!! So exciting!!! The lab folks and Nparks people were out at Pulau Satumu aka Raffles Lighthouse 6-8 Apr. Managed to hop onto the boat yesterday for my first ever first-hand witnessing of corals spawning!!! Must find ways to get myeself on the boat again next year~~
Anyways, K gave us a quite briefing during the week, along with photos for us clueless spawning virgins, so we would know when to tag the corals when they were on the verge of releasing all those gametes into the water column.
And of course, this being my first time, did try to take photos. Only managed to take *some* nice ones (mainly goniastrea since they took like FOREVER to set and then release) Galaxea shot came out TOTALLY blurred since cammie couldn't decide on where to focus with those sperm-egg packs and all those uber long tentacly tentacles everywhere...
Getting ready for the big event....
Still setting...and setting...with tentacles slightly out...
Is this cool or what?! Almost the entire head is getting ready~~~
And off it goes!! In drips and draps....
Cute pink little packages. Mr stork definitely dives and visits underwater too~~~ Spawn coral spawn!!!
Not forgetting other denizens of the reef that are up and about at night~~ Whoppee~~~ Sure was an eye-opener for me!!!
Anyways, K gave us a quite briefing during the week, along with photos for us clueless spawning virgins, so we would know when to tag the corals when they were on the verge of releasing all those gametes into the water column.
And of course, this being my first time, did try to take photos. Only managed to take *some* nice ones (mainly goniastrea since they took like FOREVER to set and then release) Galaxea shot came out TOTALLY blurred since cammie couldn't decide on where to focus with those sperm-egg packs and all those uber long tentacly tentacles everywhere...
Getting ready for the big event....
Still setting...and setting...with tentacles slightly out...
Is this cool or what?! Almost the entire head is getting ready~~~
And off it goes!! In drips and draps....
Cute pink little packages. Mr stork definitely dives and visits underwater too~~~ Spawn coral spawn!!!
Not forgetting other denizens of the reef that are up and about at night~~ Whoppee~~~ Sure was an eye-opener for me!!!
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Must go next year!
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