BrianPlankis
Premium Member
Hello Fellow TBS'ers,
My name is Brian Plankis and I'm a TBS customer and proud owner of 3 TBS brain corals (scientific name Manicina areolata, common name Caribbean Rose Coral). These corals are rarely found in the hobby and are only legally harvested from aquaculture sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
Unfortunately last year many aquaculture sites in Florida, including TBS, suffered some damage from red tides. For TBS this appears to have wiped out their population of Manicina areolata.
I am also President of Project DIBS (Desirable Invertebrates Breeding Society) and we are attempting to breed this beautiful coral in captivity. However, with a very limited supply of this coral we are trying to locate anyone that has these corals. So if you are a former TBS customer and have some of these corals in your tank, I would like to hear from you. There are a couple of ways you can assist in our effort to breed these corals.
1. If you have 2 or more of these corals in your tank and would like to attempt to breed them, you can follow the procedures we have already outlined.
2. If you only have a single coral in your tank and would be willing to donate it to our breeding efforts we can talk about this as well.
You can PM me here on RC or contact me on the Project DIBS website, I have the same username there.
It does look extremely difficult to be able to get the proper permits to re-seed the TBS aquaculture site with corals raised in captivity, but at a minimum Project DIBS plans on sharing all information we gather on how to care for and breed this beautiful coral with TBS.
My TBS Brains:
Colony1:
Colony2:
Colony3:
Cheers,
Brian
PS. Richard or Moderators, let me know if this breaks any rules or if anything needs to change, otherwise sticky this, per Richard's permission.
My name is Brian Plankis and I'm a TBS customer and proud owner of 3 TBS brain corals (scientific name Manicina areolata, common name Caribbean Rose Coral). These corals are rarely found in the hobby and are only legally harvested from aquaculture sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
Unfortunately last year many aquaculture sites in Florida, including TBS, suffered some damage from red tides. For TBS this appears to have wiped out their population of Manicina areolata.
I am also President of Project DIBS (Desirable Invertebrates Breeding Society) and we are attempting to breed this beautiful coral in captivity. However, with a very limited supply of this coral we are trying to locate anyone that has these corals. So if you are a former TBS customer and have some of these corals in your tank, I would like to hear from you. There are a couple of ways you can assist in our effort to breed these corals.
1. If you have 2 or more of these corals in your tank and would like to attempt to breed them, you can follow the procedures we have already outlined.
2. If you only have a single coral in your tank and would be willing to donate it to our breeding efforts we can talk about this as well.
You can PM me here on RC or contact me on the Project DIBS website, I have the same username there.
It does look extremely difficult to be able to get the proper permits to re-seed the TBS aquaculture site with corals raised in captivity, but at a minimum Project DIBS plans on sharing all information we gather on how to care for and breed this beautiful coral with TBS.
My TBS Brains:
Colony1:
Colony2:
Colony3:
Cheers,
Brian
PS. Richard or Moderators, let me know if this breaks any rules or if anything needs to change, otherwise sticky this, per Richard's permission.
