WYSIWYG SPS Coral Colonies

[Krak256]

100% agreed, I’ve only gotten lucky once with a yellow/green colony. Part of the fun is if they stay, again we’re just full blown addicts with this hobby.

Can people share some maricultured “wins”?

Here are some of mine:

 

[Mike Yasin]

How did the last batch do folks? Didn’t see a lot of success with these last round…at least none of yall posted anything other than they were fading out.

Probably all dead? Sucks that we gamble like this with living organisms. Very low survival rate from the ocean to a holding tank to a home tank. Wish we’d be more responsible

 

[Mike Yasin]

How did the last batch do folks? Didn’t see a lot of success with these last round…at least none of yall posted anything other than they were fading out.

Probably all dead? Sucks that we gamble like this with living organisms. Very low survival rate from the ocean to a holding tank to a home tank. Wish we’d be more responsible

 

[Slingfox]

Probably all dead? Sucks that we gamble like this with living organisms. Very low survival rate from the ocean to a holding tank to a home tank. Wish we’d be more responsible

If you have a tank that grows SPS well the survival rate of marineculture should be very high. If people want to increase chances of the SPS pulling through they should frag the colony immediately. That helps ensures high light and flow to all pieces and increases the number of shots on goal significantly.

 

[Invictus]

Probably all dead? Sucks that we gamble like this with living organisms. Very low survival rate from the ocean to a holding tank to a home tank. Wish we’d be more responsible

Fortunately not. Of the 11 we got last time, most of them are still alive, and a few look to be thriving. I only saw one report of total loss. Updates are on the previous sale thread.

 

[Slingfox]

Probably all dead? Sucks that we gamble like this with living organisms. Very low survival rate from the ocean to a holding tank to a home tank. Wish we’d be more responsible

You should also not assume that these SPS colonies come straight from the ocean. The largest operations in Indonesia, Australia, and Malaysia are increasingly keeping the best cool they find in the wild and then grow them up in tanks with water piped in from the ocean. You can sometimes tell by looking at what the coral is mounted on, encrusting pattern, and shape. It is not only coral distributors in the US and Europe who are growing coral in tanks for sale.

 

[Turkeysammich]

Mariculture is extremely difficult when theirs a swing. They are extremely unforgiving. It’s not months of life. But see if you can grow them for years. They always come in pale and rarely color up to the pictures. Unless you can pound them with super high par. My experience is 1 out of 10 or 20 will be really decent. The rest are meh.

 

[jhuynh]

let me save you the troubles... show me the sps that you got, @Mike Yasin and I will play the "name the sps game" with you so you can add either JF, RMF, ASD, RRC, RRA, TSA, WWC, ARC, JCC, to that name.

let me also add, it is bad business practice to give @ClearWaterAquarium - your customers wholesale price and under cutting the other LFS only to benefit a higher tier in the purchasing power.

 

[tribbitt]

They come on grow discs with little tags on them, meaning they're maricultured: coral farmers collect some frags and culture those strains intensively close to shore

In my experience mariculture rarely morph into anything "insane crazy" like vivid confetti, but they end up looking pretty nice.

They're hardy if you treat them well. They tend to do better chopped up - my guess is that their morphology changes in response to the amount of flow in the ocean, and when taken back into a tank with relatively very low flow, they no longer get sufficient flow to the middle of the colony

 

[Turkeysammich]

They come on grow discs with little tags on them, meaning they're maricultured: coral farmers collect some frags and culture those strains intensively close to shore

In my experience mariculture rarely morph into anything "insane crazy" like vivid confetti, but they end up looking pretty nice.

They're hardy if you treat them well. They tend to do better chopped up - my guess is that their morphology changes in response to the amount of flow in the ocean, and when taken back into a tank with relatively very low flow, they no longer get sufficient flow to the middle of the colony

When you frag a colony. It puts the frag into survival mode. If it’s a healthy frag it will do well if it was weak it will rtn in a few days to weeks. But yes. Most of your thinking is correct. Young Jedi.

 

[Mike Yasin]

You should also not assume that these SPS colonies come straight from the ocean. The largest operations in Indonesia, Australia, and Malaysia are increasingly keeping the best cool they find in the wild and then grow them up in tanks with water piped in from the ocean. You can sometimes tell by looking at what the coral is mounted on, encrusting pattern, and shape. It is not only coral distributors in the US and Europe who are growing coral in tanks for sale.

Mariculture is close to shore in similar conditions to the ocean, and its native water, save for a few variables. I don’t mean to come off as an a-hole, far from it. I’ve seen some very cool survivors, but those are usually limited to farms who practice a very high degree of specialization - not saying hobbyists can’t succeed. Just lower rates of success is all.

 

[Slingfox]

Mariculture is close to shore in similar conditions to the ocean, and its native water, save for a few variables. I don’t mean to come off as an a-hole, far from it. I’ve seen some very cool survivors, but those are usually limited to farms who practice a very high degree of specialization - not saying hobbyists can’t succeed. Just lower rates of success is all.

No worries. Many of the hobbiest who purchase these colonies are degenerate coral gamblers. Every once in a while the lotto hits!