Spawning

I have a reef aquarium with an orange Bubble Tip Anemone (Entacmaea quadricolor). The water was clear and everything seemed normal. Suddenly, within just a few minutes, the water became completely cloudy and milky white.

Just before the water turned cloudy, I noticed a white, smoke-like substance coming directly from the anemone. The anemone remained attached to the rock and its tissue appeared intact.

One additional detail: this anemone has a history of splitting and reproducing asexually, usually dividing into two anemones.

Could this have been a spawning event, mucus release, or something related to the anemone splitting? Is there a risk to the fish and corals, and what should I do immediately?

Trochus snail eggs or sperm? It’s been doing this for 20 minutes.

Clown fish laying eggs

First time catching nassarius snails spawn. Excuse the flatworm 😂

Sorry for the no lens filter. Had to catch the pic quick. My orange clown is camera shy. These lazy jobless little shits dug out this cave and just lay around all day while I’m home. But when I’m gone they are all over the tank. Sticking it to the man traverses species I guess. Side note, They have tried laying eggs with no success thankfully as I don’t have a hatchery tank set up for them yet.

Micro brittle star spawning capture. This guy was big! He was standing over and inch high. He's the biggest one in there that i know of, this in the only time I've seen his entire body at once. He loves algae wafers and takes them from the tweezers into his cave.

Babies everywhere around the tank. Counted 17 so far

New additions to the nano 14

Purple Monster

Blue Phoenix

Kryptonite candy cane

Frogs spawn.

Clownfish spawning in the 180 gallon tank tonight! Never caught them in the act before.

Shots of a huge micro brittle spawning. I'll post the video sometime.

hoping to get babies from this two

Caught a couple of my Anthias making out!

Actually Al says:

Your 4 Lyretail Anthias (3 females & 1 male) commonly display "kissing" - mouth-to-mouth contact or jaw-locking — as a form of establishing dominance or hierarchy, not courtship or spawning.

Reef hobbyists frequently describe this exact behavior in anthias groups as non-harmful sparring to assert social order, especially among females or when a dominant individual "keeps others in line."