Been a while since my last update. My local reef club, the Atlanta Reef Club, held a frag swap this past weekend. What a blast!
My daughter picked out some really colorful zoas that have yellow skirts with green centers and other have yellow skirts with green and orange centers. Very bright and very colorful additions. She also picked out some candy cane coral.
Now for the freebies. We got a great piece of favia that has a yellow edge and pink center. Two different frags of zoas that I haven't had a chance to ID yet. My daughters look like pink zippers but time will tell.
We have what looks to be another favia with green edge that is in very bad shape. The rock pieces under the coral are all bashed up. Tomorrow I'll see about gluing those pieces together to provide some stability and get it on a frag plug.
I was a volunteer CUC member so as the vendors were taking their stuff down I told my daughter to head over to the one that still had corals in their tank and see if they had anything for free. She came back with a nice little frag of pineapple brain coral! I guess none of us could really refuse a sweet little reefer.
Acro heaven. I have 7 frags of acro's. No idea what type and if they weren't going to be tossed I wouldn't have taken that many. I'm not sure how they'll do. 2 have some polyp extension while I'm unsure of the others. A couple that don't have polyp extension still have some color on their skeleton. If any of these pan out I'll be stoked.
And finally, a two eye piece of what looks to be pink eye chalice! Had to save it from my pistol shrimp though as he was trying to drag it away for his cave!!!! Have it on the rock now and will glue it to a frag plug tomorrow as well.
But wait, there's more!!!!! There were only 3 or 4 of us left when we found a bucket with a large rock that was used for the free zoa frags. This rock still had at least 100 polyps on it! You can guess who's tank it's sitting in now!!! At least half of the polyps have opened so far and I fully expect the rest to make it. The rock spent the better part of a day in a ziploc bag with barely enough water in it to keep it covered so there's certainly some stress. I've had to rearrange a bunch of stuff to get it to fit but it's definitely worth it.
A FTS is in order but it'll be a bit most likely until I can get to it. It's going to take me a fair amount of time to get everything mounted to frag plugs, courtesy of Thrive Aquatics, and then find suitable mount points for the plugs.
Best of all, my 9yo daughter had an absolute blast. She actually enjoyed a rockscaping demonstration that Mark Levenson and Scott Michaelson put on for the swap. She's officially been promised the biocube when the 135 is up and running. She also joined the Atlanta Reef Club. She's digging reef keeping big time and I'm loving it! She was a trooper though. We got there at noon and didn't leave until 7pm!
