scorpio1646
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Terry...congrats on your spawning clowns. Back in the 1970's I received a lot of advice from Waterlife Research's founder Graham Cox about breeding Perculas. I used his revolutionary new Ultramarine sea salt to successfully get my clowns to spawn.....and that was in the days when we all used undergravel filters! I shared the same experience as you and lost all my fry......mostly due to the parents eating them. This time I'm constructing a stand alone nursery tank so will try to raise them myself with rotties and other zooplankton. The difficult bit will be trying to keep the nursery tank bacteria free.
Yes I have just a single Aquaray reef blue mounted in the lift up lid of my RSM130D. I did the same mod that Silver Surfer did (you can find his thread here on the RSM owners Club which has photos of how to do the mod), basically it simply involves removing the inner plastic skin of the lid. I had thought about moving a second reef white aquaray but my zoas would probably suffer from bleaching if I increased the light level. I attribute the vivid colours in my tank to not just the Aquaray and the RSM stock lighting but also the tank gets around 2-3 hours of natural sunlight each day. On cloudy days there is a marked decline on the colouration of my zoas.
