In the present study, Porites lutea, Goniopora djiboutiensis and Galaxea fascicularis were collected to evaulate the nubbins growth performance before and after ovulation under laboratory condition for period of 60 d. The results of present study indicated that there were no significant differences were observed among all treatments, and the skeleton density of coral nubbins ranged from 1.541 to 2.137 g/cm³ during pre-spawn and post-spawn. Three kinds of coral growth rate exhibited relatively consistent trend, and the growth rate had significantly higher in corals of pre-spawn than those of post-spawn. The growth rate of large-sized coral spikelets was significantly higher than the small size of coral spikelets during the same period, especially, there were significant difference that the growth rate of the late breeding had more significantly rapid than those in the early breeding. For Porites lutea, the marginal tissue elongation of pre-spawn phase had greater than those of post-spawn phase, moreover, for Goniopora djiboutiensis, spikelets marginal tissue elongation greater than preovulatory late ovulation. Tissue extension of pre-spawn Goniopora djiboutiensis nubbins was higher than that of the post-spawn nubbins and that of the small nubbins was slightly higher than that of the big nubbins, but there were no significant differences. With the culture time increasing, polyp proliferation rates of Galaxea fascicularis nubbins became faster and there were significant differences in polyp proliferation numbers of different stages (P < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences between polyp size of proliferation numbe and culture season. Significant positive correlations of all growth index of nubbins among three coral species were obtained, however, there were no correlations between initial diameter and/or weight and tissue extension of Goniopora djiboutiensis nubbins, and there were no correlation between initial weight/polyp number and growth rates of Galaxea fascicularis.