Marc

The spawning you saw was that of a male and male sperm, as they are often said they look
like they are smokin'
When it is female spawn, you will see small little beads (eggs), they can come out the
mouth or just pop right out of the tentacles, usually at the tip. My giant tube anemone
did this a number of times a year (female spawn). Here is a pic of a female and male coral
spawning , you can see the eggs rising (white dots) and the smokin' male

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

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"Marc Levenson" wrote in message ...
: 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.
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: 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:
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: http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/tank/spawning.html
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: 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.
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: Marc
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: Benjamin wrote:
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: 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.
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: http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribb...02/default.htm
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: 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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