frags for frag swap

[d_carloo]

Hi Club

I talked to Jason at FISH PROS and he is willing to do 3 frags for $20 dollars
for club MEMBERS only to take to the frag swap.

If your interested in doing this you will have to go and pay for the $20 before Saturday and on Saturday morning he will have the frags ready to go.

He will need to know how many frags to make so please pay in advanced to ensure that he has enough frags for the people that are interested.

 

[cbrennan4]

Hi Club

I talked to Jason at FISH PROS and he is willing to do 3 frags for $20 dollars
for club MEMBERS only to take to the frag swap.

If your interested in doing this you will have to go and pay for the $20 before Saturday and on Saturday morning he will have the frags ready to go.

He will need to know how many frags to make so please pay in advanced to ensure that he has enough frags for the people that are interested.

Thank so much for setting this up! This will really help out some people

 

[d_carloo]

N. P.

 

[zeroinverse]

Just a comment. I generally dislike the "reef shop" sponsored frags to enter frag swaps. It gives the wrong incentive for most people. They just pay the money to participate rather than spend the effort to grow out their own frags to share with the club.

It leads to the idea that "if I can sell my own choice/special corals to someone, I can make more money and just get by with buying frags to put into swap".

Just my perspective in that concept. It is great for newbies when they have no corals. But then again, new reefers may not have as much experience taking on sensitive corals.

 

[Reef Bass]

The spirit in which this is intended is wholesome, cooperative and communal. Let's make sure it stays that way.

As for noobs overreaching, if someone is unsure how difficult a given frag is to care for, please just ask. There will be lots of "experts" about.

I quietly hope that someone with adequate light and skills who isn't currently into sticks takes home my 3.5" multibranch frag of Acropora yongei and experiences success. Or discovers interesting growth form joy with a nice chunk of Montipora setosa.

 

[zeroinverse]

The spirit in which this is intended is wholesome, cooperative and communal. Let's make sure it stays that way.

As for noobs overreaching, if someone is unsure how difficult a given frag is to care for, please just ask. There will be lots of "experts" about.

I quietly hope that someone with adequate light and skills who isn't currently into sticks takes home my 3.5" multibranch frag of Acropora yongei and experiences success. Or discovers interesting growth form joy with a nice chunk of Montipora setosa.

Much better written than my response.

 

[zeroinverse]

D_carlo: Please don't take my response as directed toward your efforts.

We all really appreciate the effort getting the discount together. I would have taken advantage of that discount just to collect cool frags.

Just wanted to provide an alternate perspective.

 

[d_carloo]

D_carlo: Please don't take my response as directed toward your efforts.

We all really appreciate the effort getting the discount together. I would have taken advantage of that discount just to collect cool frags.

Just wanted to provide an alternate perspective.

No offense taken.
I saw that they had done this at the last swap i went to so i thought it would be a good thing to talk to a store owner about helping us out specially for the people that may not have frags to take.

 

[troutonmyline]

I think that guys with newer tanks should be careful to choose easier frags. It's easy to get excited and pick frags that are inappropriate for your tank. I know I've done it far too often.

 

[zeroinverse]

I think that guys with newer tanks should be careful to choose easier frags. It's easy to get excited and pick frags that are inappropriate for your tank. I know I've done it far too often.

It is nice to get a nice fancy frag. I would say for less experienced or if you are not sure your tank is ready for sensitive coral, take one at each swap (vs taking 2 or more). Test it out and see if it survives in your tank and if you can manage the Ca & Alk levels & nitrate/phosphate levels to keep it happy.

If it is, our meetups are every two months. So you can get more next meeting.

Maybe as an additional suggestion, we should mark our frag containers with level of difficulty/sensitivity.

Like my miyagi tort, while normally a sensitive coral has become aqua cultured enough I consider it a medium sensitive coral.

I propose we use a Level 1-3 sensitivity guide. I will have mine marked that way. Level 1 is easiest, Level 3 is hardest/most-sensitive.

Definitely I know people have Zoas that will easily melt on people

All the corals that members contribute take time and care to grow. I just hate too many to die off. Die off will happen, part of how you learn to be a good reefer.

 

[lokii_37]

I really like the idea of marking the difficultly level. If we do tho I think we should keep it SPS 1 2 3, LPS 1 2 3, softie 1 2 3. Just so not all the SPS are labeled 3. I hope that makes sense.

@zero. The miyagi tort I got from you about 6 months ago is going really well.

 

[zeroinverse]

I really like the idea of marking the difficultly level. If we do tho I think we should keep it SPS 1 2 3, LPS 1 2 3, softie 1 2 3. Just so not all the SPS are labeled 3. I hope that makes sense.

@zero. The miyagi tort I got from you about 6 months ago is going really well.

I like that idea of labeling based on coral types as that makes a big difference on tank types too.

We should do SPS, LPS, Zoas, softies. (I add Zoas as a separate group because some are known melters).


Nick: glad the miyagi tort is doing well. It has become very hardy. All thanks to Grant W who donated sooo much of his own corals to keep our club fun. That's who I originally got it from during a raffle swap meetup. This was after I had already gotten myself experienced with birdsnest and digitatas.
(And I learned about how to dose 2-part and how calcium reactors).

 

[ReeferItIs2]

I think it's a great idea to mark which sps corals are hard for people with new tanks...my tank is almost 5 months old and out of 7 of my sps only 2 are doing good...i would hate to get a sps that dies when it could of went into a tank and thrived...

 

[WalrusKisses]

I really like the idea of a difficulty scale, but perhaps also a brief description of the tank it came out of as well?

For example, a coral could easily be a 1 in a tank with a Calcium reactor, GFO reactor, ATO, automatic dosing, and military grade skimmer--but not quite as easy in a tank like mine where the only things automated are the lights and heater.

I think Vivid does something similar, like "Easy in an SPS tank." I could be over complicating things though.


This being said, I'm really looking forward to this meeting and to getting some sticks. I've held off for a year now and think I'm finally ready to give it a go!

 

[Dapg8gt]

I think the scale is a good idea. Plus it's easier to write on my narrow tags lol..

@reefbass Ill be on the lookout for the acro =).

I hope someone with some patience and experience gets the chunky cali tort I'm bringing also. It has been a love hate relationship ever since I've had it. Super touchy up until recently. This is actually the first time I fragged it and I've had it for almost a year. It's chunky though =). Even though it's a tort it has been on the difficult side for me and I hope to see it thrive with another reefer. I'll be labeling it a 3 lol.

 

[zeroinverse]

I hope someone with some patience and experience gets the chunky cali tort I'm bringing also. It has been a love hate relationship ever since I've had it. Super touchy up until recently. This is actually the first time I fragged it and I've had it for almost a year. It's chunky though =). Even though it's a tort it has been on the difficult side for me and I hope to see it thrive with another reefer. I'll be labeling it a 3 lol.

In general, I find Cali torts grow slowly.

 

[Dapg8gt]

Yeah until recently it was. Then it just took off of sorts. It's weird before new growth would be blue then brown out with good water and other corals doing great.

It seems to be holding it's color now but I've had issues ever since I got it. I got it as a rescue for like $5 and it was brown as can be and rtn was crazy. It got down to almost nothing literally a half inch and a bunch of super glue. Now it's probably 3"x2" and color is there just lighter than I'd like but better than brown lol.

 

[gonzalez78]

Since I see you guys don't feel good about us that don't have corals to put in the raffle to use these from fish pros then I'll just take the cars for now and buy some to grow out for the future meetings..

 

[Reef Bass]

Hmmm. Dap, I like torts. Cali could be interesting. Would love to put it next to my Oregon which is one of my oldest corals. A slow grower. Got it from Jeff 4 or 5 years ago. Has survived all my unfortunate reef events, from aefw to heater poisoning and the most potentially dangerous - reef operator error. I have a teal tort which was growing faster but hasn't been doing much recently (also from Jeff). And of course the waxon waxoff Miyagi (Grant). Then there's my Blueberry Fields Tort arriving from AquaSD today. :dance: