did a little reading up on this and also saw a partial movie about the
spawning at the not so local LFS (its 80 miles away) and the corals stay in
egg form for aprox 5 days then "hatch" and settle to the bottom and if lucky
start a life as a coral...

learn something new every day.

kc

"Benjamin" wrote in message
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Dragon,

I also watch "educational" shows. In fact the one that got me going on
this
idea was one on the earth's moon and all that it is, what it does for us,
and could do in the future.
Now I for one have never even seen an ocean, so I really have no clue
other
than the internet and television education I get . However is seems to me
that some must make it or we wouldn't have reefs at all.
The other thought is that if "they" can freeze dry sperm (or brine shrimp
eggs) for later impregnation for one example. They certainly could find a
way capture, bottle, and ship some fertilized coral "eggs" to me in the
middle of nowhere.
Maybe someday this hobby will get that on the ball but then again maybe
not.
All I know is I thought it was a neat idea and I for one would pay plenty
for a "Tank in a Bottle".
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"Dragon Slayer" wrote in message
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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?



purely just my thinking out loud here so your free to take it with a
grain
of IO salt.

I think that corals aren't hatched out of the eggs as an actual coral
animal, they go through larva stages and free swim before settling and
attaching (Thank God for Discovery Channel).

as for the 'what would someone pay' well if you could preserve them a
fair
price, as when I have watched this massive spawning from the Great
Barrier
Reef (Discovery Channel again) the fish go crazy eating all the eggs,
and
I
would assume its a great nutritional value.