Donor corals for May 2011 meeting

[Lytehouse]

We have a meeting date and place:
Scott from Oddballs with his surprise frag bag
On the UCO campus in Edmond
Saturday, May 14

Bonus: frag demonstration on a beautiful war coral before Scott speaks.
EVERY paid member present gets a frag!!!!

So double your chances of walking out the door with beautiful corals.

Best part:
Getting to see each other and swap tall tales.

As always, I'll be putting up coral pics of things avail in the tank each day.
PM with those things you have interest in adopting.

Anybody coming for a piece of this coral and an entertaining talk from our friend and Sponsor, Scott?

 

[Lightsluvr]

Yup!

LL

 

[ghellin]

I will be there for sure!

 

[shawne]

yup yup

 

[Lytehouse]

eye on the prize

eye on the prize

Haven't yet seen what Scott is bringing (feel free to post anything Scott),
But I know every Comas member gets a piece of this:

I have that little devil voice in my head that keeps sayin', "why should you take that whole thing to the meeting? It looks so nice in your tank."

 

[Oklahomareefer]

We will be there

 

[Lytehouse]

Good start. that will knock a corner off the coral.

Surely there will be more............

Rick/Staci---- any tank updates?

 

[Oklahomareefer]

Lynn, Not yet but getting ready to start the stand and water test the tank so there should be new pics soon

 

[Lytehouse]

Monday additions

Monday additions

We usually go species specific the first day. So lets change things up a little on a cooler than usual beginning to May:

This piece was donated with nothing but dark green color.
After a couple months and changing some of the bulbs in the tank,
it has begun to show some color in the mouths.
You'll be taking the chance as to what colors may show up.
If there is interest, I'll cut it in half and give it to the first 2 seekers:

green chalice:

This is a small purple hammer with green tips.
The stem has new growth:

 

[Lytehouse]

monday continues

monday continues

A new variation of the branching frog spawn.
This is also purple tipped, but is very light green.
I will also have the darker available later in the week:

Green mushroom with bit of a yellow center.
Yep, I missed it in the pic;

Small frag of purple faced zoanthids,
with bright yellow mouths;

 

[Cityfish]

pm sent

 

[MBryant]

Pm sent

 

[Lytehouse]

chalice popular
and gone
more pics tomorrow

 

[Lytehouse]

what do I need to know?

what do I need to know?

Pertaining to the donor program:


1) the rule of 5:

In order to help have frags available for everyone,
we request you not have out more than 5 frags at any one time. If you have out 5 and return 3 (of the frags you checked out, not other donations) you may check out 3 more.


2) receiving corals from the donor program:

1) you need to be a current year paid COMAS member;

2) you need to have a stable tank with
the appropriate equipment/lighting to keep the frag alive;
<O</O
3) you need to be willing to grow the frag until it propogates naturally
or you can frag it, then bring a frag back to the program;<O</O

4) you need to be willing to return the corals you haven't fragged if you break down your tank;<O</O

5) please inform the fragmaster if you loose a coral (hey, it happens);<O</O

6) you are encouraged to join those that help keep this program going by donating to the program as you trim frags from your tank(s).

 

[Lytehouse]

tuesday preview

tuesday preview

all day tomorrow:

 

[Lytehouse]

IN MEMORY-- Tuesday

IN MEMORY-- Tuesday

We had a zoanthid collector lose an entire collection(MBryant).
So, today we do nothing but zoanthids:

Purple Face w/ green skirt:

I wish I was a red hornet.
Red face and skirt
Blue mouth and circle and accents:

Radioactive Dragon Eye.
This is my parent colony.
Frags have smaller polyps:

I'll be back later today with a few more..............

 

[Glazner]

Matt needs one of each.....

 

[Lytehouse]

Matt needs one of each.....

I could fill his tank.......

 

[Lytehouse]

Tuesday afternoon

Tuesday afternoon

Continueing our theme---

All standing up as if to say-
Pick me, Pick me;

Brown skirts, green faces
white markings like stars
smallish polyps

Has colored into a nice polyp
chocolate skirts

Bright blue faces
long chocolate skirts

 

[Lytehouse]

Lynn, Not yet but getting ready to start the stand and water test the tank so there should be new pics soon

This will get exciting