If you have optimum conditions in your tank, you'll see spawning occur.
MtnDewMan on Reef Central observed his clams spawning a few months ago, and got
some great pictures.

I read about some researcher(s) that pulled a piece of coral from the reef and
happened to notice that the reef spawned at a specific time coinciding with a
moon event, and the coral he was observing in the tank did as well!

My anemone spawned last week:

http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/tank/spawning.html

Collecting the eggs, even if possible, would not result in a reef of new baby
corals. It would be plankton-food for your inhabitants, no matter how small.

Marc


Benjamin wrote:

Just thought I would toss this out to all of you. I have been looking into
this for awhile but the abc.net site below sums it up well so I thought I'd
share.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribb...02/default.htm

What would happen to a tank setup should one actually succeed in creating an
environment that could cause such a spawn as this?
Next question would be does anyone have any ideas on how to calculate a
target date for the middle of a continent? Is it even possible to guess?
How does one simulate the High/Low as well as the "Neap" Tides in confines
of a normal sized aquarium? Or would one even have to?
Also, I wonder what we would pay for say a 6oz (or for some of you 5 gallon
pail) jar of these "Coral Eggs", would they take to a tank, acclimate fine,
and grow like weeds if the tank was within normal specs? Or be a waste of
money and all of them die?

Any comments or opinions will be welcomed.

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