Breeding Set up

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Hi I would like to get persons input into the breeding set up I have currently I have 15 tanks in a bank with each tank being 2ftL by 18x18 high and wide the tanks are fed of a central fither with bio tower and skimmer currently connected into this at the moment is also a 6ft reef tank.
I have at the moment 7 prs of various clowns with 3 spwaning Percs and Maroons of both varieties.
For grow out I have set nine 15/20 gallon tanks that only contain heaters and are aerated lightly and supplied with daily water changes.
Then there is two 1000litre tubs for post larval growout that at the moment are not connected but what I was thinking of doing was leaving the 6 ft reef tank in situ and plumbing the two tubs in to it as a filter and removeing the coral and live stock and replacing it with a lot more live rock it also has a DSB which is 4 years old and really teming with life now as this is plumbed in to the brood stock system is that asking for trouble I would be also upgrading the skimmer to one thats a lot more powerful.
Space is a big issue this is in a 5.5 x3 metre shed and I really dont have room to put in a seperate filter .
Any thoughts recommendations appreciated
Regards Steve

 

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I can't comment directly on how its setup as I've never done it, but a couple good books to read on the subject would be:

Breeding the Orchid Dottyback, Pseudochromis Fridmani : An Aquarist's Journal
by Martin A. Moe Jr.
Publisher: Green Turtle Pubns; ISBN: 0939960095; (October 1997)

Conditioning, Spawning and Rearing of Fish With Emphasis on Marine Clownfish
by Frank H. Hoff
Publisher: Florida Aqua Farms Inc; ISBN: 096629601X; (August 20, 1996), 212 pages

The Marine Aquarium Handbook: Beginner to Breeder
by Martin A. Moe Jr.
Publisher: Green Turtle Pubns; 2nd edition (June 1992); ISBN: 0939960079, 318 pages

The Marine Aquarium Reference: Systems and Invertebrates
by Martin A. Moe Jr.
Publisher: Green Turtle Pubns; (July 1993); ASIN: 0939960052

Also check out http://advancedaquarist.com/index/ and click on The Breeders Net by Frank Marini and Martin Moe.

Also check out this months AA:

THE BREEDER'S NET by MARTIN MOE
Grow-Out Considerations In Marine Fish Culture
http://advancedaquarist.com/issues/june ... eeder2.htm

Here's how he diagrams one setup:

hth

Shane