The Farm

[Spslvr]

That makes sense.

Also, I'm wondering what happens to coral coloration when your frags go into a hobbyist tank that cannot replicate the 2400PAR? Do the colors, deepen, lighten, brown out, ?

Redrosetuscan seems pretty happy with their's..

 

[Wrangy]

Just caught up with the thread mate and I love what you're doing!! I love the various techniques, filters and electrolysis too! Gotta say seeing different techniques and things that are seen as out of the box is quite awesome and refreshing! Keep up the worked work and remember that you haven't put up enough pics yet! haha

 

[Spslvr]

Theres never enough pics lol, but stay tuned there will be more..

 

[Redrosetuscan]

I believe the little green one with brown polyps is the same acro as post 68 picture 6. The growth form is identical. I'm also fairy certain it was like that when I got it, although I'm sure it was a sort of pale green. Polyps always been a sort of beige brown colour.
The spat though :celeb1:

With regard to par I don't know what mine is but I do know I've got a ati 8x80 hybrid and the spat is about 18" from it. The green one is about 32" from the light

Almost every acro I have is wild and I know some/a lot are from shallow water.

 

[Spslvr]

I believe the little green one with brown polyps is the same acro as post 68 picture 6. The growth form is identical. I'm also fairy certain it was like that when I got it,.

Thats a sarmentosa.. i thaugt mabe it was but the growth is strange..

 

[Piper27]

I have a couple of theories none of which i can substantiate, i thaught mabe iodine in the way of lugols solution, and after speaking with another member here on rc he thinks mabe its a lack of ammonium which leads to burnt tips [when kh is raised] this made sense to me as the fertilizer thats dosed is ammonium,nitrogen and phosphorus in measured parts... however ive only just started dosing fertilizer at home, i have always been an avid supporter of iodine dosing......so...

I squirt a vial of lougls iodine in each tank every time I can remember. Still never registers on a saliferts kit, but I wonder what a stable level would do.

 

[Spslvr]

I squirt a vial of lougls iodine in each tank every time I can remember. Still never registers on a saliferts kit, but I wonder what a stable level would do.

try bumping it up to .06... ive had it higher but blues and yellows start to get a really ugly green tinge...

 

[crs751]

Curious when you say plant fertilizer do you mean the garden type or something specific to the aquatic industry?

 

[Piper27]

try bumping it up to .06... ive had it higher but blues and yellows start to get a really ugly green tinge...

That the reason why I stopped measuring and just do it as often as I can, I could set a channel on a Doser for it. But a little too much work for me to monitor. Eavy feedings get me right . Although I need to up or change my carbon dosing so I can use the certs, at least that is my main goal. All happening soon once my custom skimmer and sump are done.

 

[Spslvr]

As promised some more pics

 

[Spslvr]

 

[Wrangy]

They're looking amazing mate! One day I'll have to steal myself some of that white with purple tip acro!! lol

 

[Spslvr]

yeah its pretty nice and being so thin under the right conditions it grows crazy fast!!!

 

[Spslvr]

Hot pink abrohlensis anyone?

This milli is bright orange

This one looks like a gummy jellie lol

 

[j sama]

I really like that you're farming these corals, and I hope to see aussie grown frags available in the USA eventually.

I do have a question though, why isn't Australia doing mariculture? It's successful in Bali and other places. It makes me sad to see chunks of acro coming in that are clearly broken off of a larger colony. I wish they would come in as mini colonies encrusted to a base in the way that the bali acros do.

Government! I personally know one of the collectors here in Queensland and a friend works for another both collectors would love to do mariculture but simply can't. I've talked to the collector I know about this issue and he told me that they are not cant stockpile corals in one area as it may change the biodiversity of the area he also went on to say that any of the coral collected cannot be returned. He also said that a change in biodiversity in areas is a naturally occurring thing as a guy that's been doing it for over 20 years he's seen every thing from crown of thorns outbreaks to mass bleaching events and severe cyclone damage. And the one thing he continues to say is how well it bounces back. One that he recently told me of was the damage from cyclone Hamish in 2009. He said that most of the reef was base rock and he recently went back to one of the worst hit spots he said there was almost 100% coral cover again most of the corals being 70+ cm across

 

[RBKKREEF]

WOW! A true dream job, thanks for sharing!

 

[Spslvr]

Government! I personally know one of the collectors here in Queensland and a friend works for another both collectors would love to do mariculture but simply can't. I've talked to the collector I know about this issue and he told me that they are not cant stockpile corals in one area as it may change the biodiversity of the area he also went on to say that any of the coral collected cannot be returned. He also said that a change in biodiversity in areas is a naturally occurring thing as a guy that's been doing it for over 20 years he's seen every thing from crown of thorns outbreaks to mass bleaching events and severe cyclone damage. And the one thing he continues to say is how well it bounces back. One that he recently told me of was the damage from cyclone Hamish in 2009. He said that most of the reef was base rock and he recently went back to one of the worst hit spots he said there was almost 100% coral cover again most of the corals being 70+ cm across

I dont really want to turn this thread into a political debate but i will say this, after speaking with the marine park authority i can say they are living in the stoneage.

As for 100% recovery after bleaching events this is not entirely acurate there is a series of photos from i think Ron and Valerie taylor one photo taken in the sixties and one on the exact same spot in the nineties they look like completely different areas. The thing with bleaching events is the corals do recover but never 100% more like 80-90% the problem with this is in the 60s we had a bleaching event and lets say a 90% rebound then in the 70s another event with another 90% rebound and the 80s and so on. you may say 90% aint to bad but when you add it up thats a decline of 10% per decade so in 5 decades we have lost almost 50% of the coral coverage that existed in the 60s..

 

[Myka]

The color under natural light is wonderful! Are you exporting to Canada at all? If so, who has your corals?

 

[Wrangy]

Still loving those shots mate! Those acro's are bloody brilliant! And your info makes for some great reading

Do dabble much in deepwater acropora?? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on them in your tanks if you do!

 

[Spslvr]

We are starting to get into the deep water species, and are using shade cloth on those areas. And whilst not strictly a deepwater acro we have good success with Echinata... and the desalwii frags a few pics back is doing well...