Marc,

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.

Nice, do you know of anyone that has seen a mass spawn in a tank? Mass
being more than just one reef inhabitant at the same time? My understanding
of these events led me to believe that many different species do this at the
same time. Is that not true and I need to do some more reading?

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.

No matter how small the inhabitants? How about No inhabitants other than
bacteria? Maybe you recall that I play around with "Man Made Live Rock".

Any Ideas on Tide simulation, or is the moons gravity doing that
automatically no matter the volume of water?

Thanks,


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"Marc Levenson" wrote in message
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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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