How do you keep track of your corals?

[mcoomer]

I'm getting ready to mount a bunch of frags in my tank. The frag plugs that they're mounted on are labeled so I can't simply look and see who's who. Once I mount them, I'm not so sure that my CRS memory will be able to keep up. I really don't want to forget which is which so I need some way to keep them straight. My first thought is to take a snapshot with the digital camera and photochop some labels in. What do you do to ID your corals in the tank?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[sowellj]

tagging along on this one ... I was thinking along the lines of the picture as well.

 

[N-dog]

I take individual pictures and label them in my computer

 

[dudley moray]

i've taught myself how to id them using the latin (scientific) names
designer names really have no meaning !

 

[driftin]

I took a FTS photo and then labeled them in powerpoint. I also keep an excel spreadsheet of what I've purchased, from whom, and occassionally what it looks like if I'll have a hard time figuring it out.

 

[PokerReefer]

i've taught myself how to id them using the latin (scientific) names
designer names really have no meaning !

Although true. The later is way more common and more commonly used. :spin1:

 

[returnofsid]

I'm with N-Dog. I take individual, close up pictures. When I upload the pictures to my computer, and then to my Flickr acct, I label them. If I have several frags, that might be easily confused, I will also put them on a frag rack, AND write them down, in the order that I've racked them. Then I'll take a picture of the frags, on the rack, and list all the corals, in the picture notes, in order, from left to right, front to back, something.

 

[tibob32]

I obsess way too much with my corals to forget..

 

[dvanacker]

I was gonna say. Im I weird for knowing exactly where every coral I have came from and approx. time I acquired it?

 

[nano427]

I obsess way too much with my corals to forget..

same here

 

[PSam]

I'm using reeflines.com as of the last couple month and trying to make myself upload 1x a month each coral to track growth. I had folders full of pics I never did anything with, but this site makes it easier to organize, at least for me. I find it very helpful.

Upload your photos, tag the coral names with common or scientific, and if in sequential order, you can watch growth. Note where you got it, who you fragged to, the date acquired, etc. It's great if you like keeping track of all that, which I do. here's what I uploaded so far: http://reeflines.com/users/psam/corals.

Yeah I know some are in rough shape it's post-move. Those that survived are on the up and up...

 

[chadfarmer]

memory and when it comes to this hobby its all i can remember

 

[soulsigma]

I'm using reeflines.com as of the last couple month and trying to make myself upload 1x a month each coral to track growth. I had folders full of pics I never did anything with, but this site makes it easier to organize, at least for me. I find it very helpful.

Upload your photos, tag the coral names with common or scientific, and if in sequential order, you can watch growth. Note where you got it, who you fragged to, the date acquired, etc. It's great if you like keeping track of all that, which I do. here's what I uploaded so far: http://reeflines.com/users/psam/corals.

Yeah I know some are in rough shape it's post-move. Those that survived are on the up and up...

Good ideal and thasnks for the link:thumbsup:

 

[SDguy]

i obsess way too much with my corals to forget..

+10

 

[luther1200]

i obsess way too much with my corals to forget..

+1 I could easily tell you were I got each piece from and what it is. Or at least what it was sold as. But maybe I would have a problem with a larger tank.

 

[JMalone81]

i obsess way too much with my corals to forget..

+1

 

[motownmego]

i also take pics and put the names on the pictures

 

[The Velvet Sea]

+1 to the obsessive reefer bunch

 

[scar34face]

1) I really don't have enough frags/corals to lose track of them
2) I pretty much check my tank every day to make sure nothing is going wrong so they get burned into my memory after a couple days.

 

[tecsavi]

I can pretty much remember what is what and where I got it from but still take a lot of pictures. I take pictures of each coral, name the picture with the name of the coral and put it in a folder by date. Every six months or so I take a full tank shot and one of each coral. You would be amazed at how much your coral grows and you don't realize it because you see it every day.

I like the idea of the spreadsheet though. I might try and do that with a link to the pictures. Great idea!!