Froggies! (picture)

[acroporas]

Fun picture of my family of baby frogspawns. - Enjoy

 

[silver17jo]

Wow you have alot of them, whats your system?

 

[acroporas]

System is too big to photograph. But here is a quick diagram. and a few words of explanation.

125 is display tank. 75 is frag tank/ sump. 10 is ricorda fragging tank. 5 is tempory storage of random frags before I mount them to something.

water flow from 75 to the 125 is by 4 mag drive 700 pumps.

water is pumped from 75 to the 10 wich drains into the 5 which finally dumps back into the 75 by a micro-jet pump.

evap is replaced with kalkwasser via a dosing pump (~8.5LPD)

No skimmer, no filtration. ~250LBS live rock. 6" sand in 125. No sand in 75.

MH bulbs are 10K. All blubs are 2 years old and desperately need to be changed but for some reason I havent. I have an extra 250W fixture I am trying to fit in there somewhere. Electric bill = $$$

Anything else you want to know?

 

[cmcgehee01]

William...How are the froggie babies attached to the PVC pipes? Neat looking setup. Thanks for all the info.

 

[acroporas]

They are just placed in an appropriate sized hole that is drilled into the pipe. It is important that the pipe be tied to a rock, because the PVC will float away if it isnt.

 

[bobafett]

Did you frag these off the mother colony or did they spawn?

 

[acroporas]

The mother colony has spawned before, my other frogspawn did not spawn with it so none of the eggs were fertile.

So these babys are fragged.

 

[AngelReefer]

nice frogs

 

[Julio]

sweet babies! how often do you frag your colony?

 

[AIMFish]

Cool idea for a "crib" At first I thought you had a frogspawn on the other side of the PVC and only allowed it to grow thru the small holes

 

[gundo50001]

Were the babies you fragged like the ones i posted on this thread?

Did you just razor blade them off?

Thanks,
Alex

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=771460

 

[acroporas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6850746#post6850746 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Julio
sweet babies! how often do you frag your colony?

I know exactly how to do it. I could induce the production of daughter polyps about 2x a year. I am not going share how I induce the production of polyps becaue the line between inducing daughter polyps and killing the colony is very fine and I do not want to be responcible for a bunch of people killing their corals.

When it does it, each polyp in the mother colony makes 50-100 very small baby polyps. If you wanted high survival you would have to frag them off very small because they are close together they overcrowd as they grow. At the size I feal confortable fragging the babies' skeletons are 1-2mm diameter and there are ~ 6 per mother polyp.

The colony has produced babys polyps 7 times before. But this is the first time I made an attempt to frag any and grow them out.

I expect that it will take me 6-12 months from the time I noticed the babys to grow them to an adult polyp.

 

[acroporas]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6851005#post6851005 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gundo5000
Were the babies you fragged like the ones i posted on this thread?

Did you just razor blade them off?

Thanks,
Alex

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=771460

As I said in my last post, I'm not telling how I induce the production of daughter polyps.

No razor blade. Once the polyps get about 1-2mm diameter I just snap them off with needle nose pliers.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

nice...

 

[NicoleRM]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6851128#post6851128 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acroporas
I am not going share how I induce the production of polyps

So much for furthering the hobby via shared information. :lol:

 

[ernordstrom]

Geez its just a hobby. I am not trying to get rich selling coral I would just like to know how to make more coral for my own tank...Come on give in and let us all know how you did it. If someone is willing to try it why not let them. You won't be responsible for it.