What is Success?

[ReefMonger]

Ok guys I am curious to what we are calling success for keeping the various azoo corals.

6 months, 9 months, 2 years? I think it will vary on which coral is in question.

What would be success on Dendroneptheas?
Are we counting success with just keeping them alive, or growth also?

 

[SAZAMA]

i have a dendro for a year now. even after being half eaten by a ric.(lost all new heads) he recovered and has 5 new heads 2mon later. so far he is very easy maintain.

 

[ReefMonger]

Dendroneptheas not dendrophyllia. Dendrophyllia are fairly easy on the azoo side of things.

 

[stunreefer]

Generally speaking I feel that success is over a year minimum, and reproducing or growing at a decent rate. I would go on the lower time frame for corals like Dendronepthya and commend people for even keeping them alive. If you kept have a colony of Dendronepthya that seemes happy for over a year, but hasn't grown much, I would say that's "successful".

 

[Aquabacs]

I would say success is difficult to measure in the Azoox World as it is in life. What is success to one reefer may not be to another. The only way for us to fairly measure success in non-photosynthetic aquarium keeping is with aquarium documentation and time. Sites like this and others give us a public forum for sharing our information, photo logs, and aquarium timelines.
I would really like to see this sect of the hobby grow.It will take time before it does but non-photosynthetic aquarium keeping is the next evolution of aquarium keeping. At any given day, look at the amount of people viewing the SPS forum. There are hundreds viewing that forum and at any given time less than 50 here. Besides looking at the "success" of our aquariums we should look at the amount of people trending toward this forum, reefers building new Azoox aquariums, SPS reefers converting over (had to add that) people asking for help in keeping of Azoox corals, and our total influence in the hobby.


Mike

 

[aninjaatemyshoe]

I would say that true success could only be claimed once we are actually growing out these corals from frags and trading them. Until then, even if we are keeping them alive for years, any particular coral is always at the whim of its one owner and can be wiped out by one catastrophe. Considering how fragile many of these corals are, it doesn't really take much.

 

[uhuru]

I think this is already possible with many of the gorgonians, although growth is for the most part slow in our tanks at least. Do you think we should be seeing faster growth rates from them?

 

[owlbassboy]

has the growth rate of gorgonians been observed and documented in the wild?

 

[slapshot]

To me success is kepping it alive one month longer than the last guy. Seriously we have to take steps. We can maintain many fish for longer than their normal life span but can not breed them. We need forums like this to document our successes and failures so as not to repeat them. Overtime we will figure this out. The really good news is there are maricultured specimens on the market regularly now. That is better than chipping up the reefs.

 

[Kreeger1]

Most Dendroneptheas spawn in the wild every other night, when we can recreate that in home aquariums or something close to that I will consider that a success. I've kept them over the year mark and still failed with them in the end.

 

[slapshot]

Most Dendroneptheas spawn in the wild every other night, when we can recreate that in home aquariums or something close to that I will consider that a success. I've kept them over the year mark and still failed with them in the end.

Some say their natural lifespan might be just a year. If that is the case you may have already succeded.

 

[Kreeger1]

I did propagate a few of them too, but I still feel something is missing with the no spawning in my tank. I've had Swifitia spawn, sun corals spawn, but not scerlo's or dendro's. Hopefully with this new tank, when ready, will be able to get the dendro's to spawn.
That is my goal

 

[Aquabacs]

I did propagate a few of them too, but I still feel something is missing with the no spawning in my tank. I've had Swifitia spawn, sun corals spawn, but not scerlo's or dendro's. Hopefully with this new tank, when ready, will be able to get the dendro's to spawn.
That is my goal

Only counts if you catch it on video

Mike

 

[uhuru]

LOL! Didn't Claude get his dendro to spawn? I couldn't tell whether it was a dendro or stereo because the baby was so small. The thread is in the FM forum though.

Personally, I'd like to be able to at least frag them and grow the frags.