桶狀海棉產卵

桶狀海棉產卵            日期: 2000年5月8日 AM 04:31

    I saw the sponge (Xestospongia muta～桶狀海棉) was producing egg-cells together this morning.

    It was by chance. I was just going for the dolphin that I had seen yesterday. But I couldn't get enough time to settle down the camera for it because the boat was in a hurry.

    After left the dolphin,I turned to the Great Coral. In the middle of the way, I found there was smoking from a sponge.

    In the beginning,I thought that was an illegal way to bomb then to pick the fishes by a worst hunter. So I tried to take it out as quickly as I could.  Then I realized : the unknown fog was the sponge's egg-cells～it's sexual passion time !

    Like the corals,almost everyone of this species sent out their egg-cells simultaneously.  It's really funny to be around by several smoking tanks within sights underwater.

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