GROWOUT trade idea

vietcu

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I had an idea at work today and almost forgot to post it :). I would like to organize a group growout trade program. This is an idea that I have so far, feel free to add and improve on it.

We form a group of traders who wants to trade high end or rare zoas. Limit it to say 10 people per session. Each person offer up 1 frag of coral they have that they want to use as the growout trade. From the time the start of the program until say 6 months from now, or till whenever the frag grows out enough so that it is able to be fragged for the people involved in the growout. The frag stays in the original holder's tank and grow out there. We then meet up at the meeting or a predetermined place and trade. So say 10 people join, they offer up 1 frag to trade. In the end they get back 9 frags from the one frag they offer up. Each person who joins would post up what they are willing to include in the trade and everyone gets to vote on the one frag they would like to be used. Majority rules.

If more than 10 people want to get in on this, we can always break it into say 2 groups. Because I think growing for more than 10 people would be too many. What do you guys think? I think we can do this and it would be fun to say by Christmas or something we all go home from one of the meetings with a whole bunch of new frags, and not have to pay for it. Its a win win offer :).
 
That sounds like a great idea to me. I've thought of something similiar, but I really like how you phrased it. I'd be willing to give it a shot even though I'm not an official member, pending I have anything you all would be interested in. If it really came down to it, I could buy a frag of something rarer just so I could get in on the session.

I like the way you think, Vu!
 
I wonder if we could make the timeline to correspond with the Ohio swaps, we could meet at the Spring Swap in Cleveland and the Fall Swap in Columbus. Just a suggestion
 
i would be game for this .. im not sure if my zoas will grow 9 polys in 6 months that would just about leave some with 1 or 2 polys in the end , who ever gets in would have to have a nice size colony right off the bat of nice zoas , i have some real nice purple death , and Darth Vader, AOG ( from you by the way , and they are REAL nice thank you V ) with about 5-6 polys on each right now and just not sure if they will multiply fast enough for the 6 month to frag them out. if it were to be done every year say at the x-mas Csea meeting ,,it would work !! and it would be a very nice x-mas , to get 9 different rare zoas for free??? oh yea ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14606966#post14606966 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Murphs205
AOG ( from you by the way , and they are REAL nice thank you V )

Are they the same as the colony I gave you Murph?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14609096#post14609096 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aerius007
I'm in, but would groups of five be easier?

I was thinking about this last night before I went to bed. The turn around time could be a lot shorter, and more groups could be formed this way. Like was already mentioned, if someone has a type that only pops out a new head once a month, it would be difficult to do a six month swap with 10 people.

While it would be nice to be a group large enough to come home with 9 more types of polyps, I vote for the smaller groups...
 
i'm in. I read an article about a club in Cali. that does something like this with high end stuff and thought it was a great idea. I'll see if I can find it online
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14609828#post14609828 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joenano
i'm in. I read an article about a club in Cali. that does something like this with high end stuff and thought it was a great idea. I'll see if I can find it online

Kreeger1 already posted about that, and he wants to organize something like that in the near future. But that is a swap that people arlready have the stuff to trade. I am talking a bout offering something up that you already have but not enough for everyone yet. Once it grows in you frag it until a later date that you will have enough for everyone.

Here is something that I am going to offer up to get you guys to be enticed to join in on this.

Frag of Mohawks
Mohawks.jpg


Or a frag of my all time fav Spartans.
Spartans.jpg
 
So is the plan to wait until after the swap before this thing gets officially set up? I'm in, and would be willing to make the drive to get to the meet-up for trading, just let me know on way or the other...
As of right now, I don't really have any hard to come by polyps other than my Nukes that I'm trying to nurse back to their intended bright green color (I bought them washed out). I just ordered my Vit-C, and will start dosing that this week to try and boost growth and color out of them, but I'm willing to buy a frag of rare zoas to grow out for this trade if need be. In that case, we could vote on which type of zoanthid is wanted the most, and I can track it down... Either way is cool with me.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14624066#post14624066 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aznnutty
im in, sorry for not telling you vu, but i have mohawks as well

You should also say you're sorry for having VDM and not telling me. I had to buy some right before you posted that you had them. I don't know if mine looks like yours yet, but I just got them so we'll see. :)
 
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