Saving Corals

Discussion in 'Corals' started by gregnlr, Mar 18, 2013.

  1. gregnlr

    gregnlr Grouper

    I would encourage you to share your corals, anything that is a favorite or one of a kind. I had a beautiful purple Stylo in my SPS tank it was huge and been grown from a frag I had gottern at The Fish Bowl in Searcy. It was the centerpiece of my tank. I was crushed when my tank crashed and I lost this piece. Well at the meeting on Saturday Whitney brought me a frag, you guessed it, it was a piece of the purple Stylo that I had shared with him. I had not even remembered I had shared, but very thankful.

    So if you have something that you would hate to lose or just a piece you feel is special share it with other members when it's big enough to frag.

    Thanks Again Whitney, can't wait till it's the star once again.
     
  2. 501scionxb

    501scionxb Moderator

    No problem Greg figured you would enjoy that. I was looking in my tank and wondering where I got it from and remembered that you gave it to me. I'm glad it made it through the power outage I had during Christmas.
     
  3. 501scionxb

    501scionxb Moderator

    I had a thought a long tine ago to actually have a depository for all of our favorite coral from our tanks for situations such as the power outages and crashes. Just thought it would be nice to do this.
     
  4. Andy

    Andy Guest

    We should save a frag from the coral we frag at each meeting. Like the purple and yellow scroll, then we can frag another colony in the future.
     
  5. 501scionxb

    501scionxb Moderator

    Heres the stylo Greg gave me. Now its grown up some. uploadfromtaptalk1363638789074.jpg
     
  6. Kim

    Kim Secretary Staff Member

    Hiya

    Agreed. Which is why I finally let some of my sps go. I'd hate to loose that colony and not have access to having a piece back if I lost it.

    Kim/Benton AR
     
  7. wlyon

    wlyon Guest

    I never thought about it like that. Very awesome idea and out of the box thinking!
     
  8. Tanks

    Tanks Guest

    I think sharing out your favorite colonies is actually doing the same thing in reality isn't it. You allow others to enjoy what you have and should the worst happen to your colony, hopefully one that you fragged out will be big enough to come back around to you. =)
     
  9. gregnlr

    gregnlr Grouper

    I think that is what I am getting at; perhaps we need to have more actual frag swaps at the meetings. Some of my best coral I have had are ones given or traded.
     

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