Spawning of Acropora digitifera in an aquarium as recorded by continuous interval photography using an underwater camera
2018
Gushi, M. (Okinawa College, Nago, Okinawa (Japan). National Institute of Technology, Department of Bioresources Engineering) | Iguchi, A. | Takeuchi, I.
An advanced underwater camera was used for recording coral spawning at a flow-through seawater aquarium. A colony of Acropora digitifera from the reef flat of Sesoko Island, Okinawa, Japan was transferred to a flow-through aquarium and photographed continuously for 5 days at 10 min intervals using an underwater digital camera equipped with a lens wiper. LED lighting was provided. The number of gamete bundle-like particles between the coral and seawater surface was counted on the photographs obtained. The gamete bundle release started around 22:00 pm on 31 May, 2015 (2 h and 50 min after sunset and 3 days before full moon). Spawning was estimated to continue for < 2 hours. The present study indicates that an underwater camera with a lens wiper system will help elucidate the details of coral spawning.
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