Official April 2016 SPS Growount Contest Thread

[jamesdong009]

Thank You to those who attended the meeting and entered into the contest .

As stated before, members who signed up for the contest, must have been present at the meeting to pick up your free contest frag.

Here are the rules that were listed from the Sign Up Thread.

- All participants must be paid members before receiving your coral
- Growout coral must be picked up in person at the April meeting
- Post your setup, your tank maintenance and treatment of incoming corals
- Take a photo of the frag within 2 weeks of acquiring it, regardless of treatment administered and condition of the tank (No Photoshop)
- Make sure to measure your frag with the ruler provided
- Continue to monitor you system with bi-weekly or monthly photos of the coral and status updates and changes made to your system.
- At the end of the allotted time frame, we will judge the best grow out and declare a winner. The time frame will be 5 months, which will be around the September 2016 meeting.
- Since the frags may vary in size, the winner will be chosen by the percentage new growth
- Prize is $50 GC to the sponsor of your choice.
- Lastly, Have Fun!


IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE OFFICIAL GROWOUT THREAD. YOU CAN HAVE THE MOST GROWTH BUT WITHOUT MONTHLY POSTS, YOU WILL NOT WIN THE CONTEST.

Turbosnail (Chris) will be monitoring this thread for the winner.

Here's a list of members who picked up their frag:

1 - wilfx
2 - eaze333
3 - GobyWanKenobie
4 - aresangel
5 - Turbosnail
6 - Platehead
7 - BigZ
8 - showard
9 - cilyjr
10 - Chlorinated
11 - Leadfootedracer
12 - Newguy
13 - jdmitch
14 - jamesdong009
15 - Lkarge

Good Luck Everyone!

 

[Leadfootedracer]

Guess I will go first.

Here is my frag, standing at 3/4" from the plug to its highest point.

Acclimated the frag by floating it in its bag for about a half hour and then plopped it in my frag rack on the back of my display tank. It sat in a cooler for close to 2 hours after picking it up.

My tank is pretty simple. It's a 90 gallon with a 4 bulb T5. I run a 9w UV Sterilzer and a GFO/GAC mix tee'd off of a DC2000 pump. I have also recently begun overnight nano bubble scrubbing. Have yet to prove its success.


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[cilyjr]

dipped in bayer

in 180g sps dom. 4x sol blues with 2x ati purple plus supplement

 

[Chlorinated]

Frag is abiut 1 inch lall, about 3/4 inch wide.

Tank is an IM 20 fusion. 4 bulb T5 Aquaticlife fixture: 2 actinc, B+, coral +. MJ 900 return with Jebao RW-4 for flow.

Salinity: 1.025
Temp: 78
Ca: 450
Alk: 8.5
Mag: 1400
No test kits for nitrate, phos, etc.

Weekly 15% water changes with Red Sea Coral Pro




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[eaze333]

current set up is
60 gallon Deep Blue rimless cube
Reef Octopus skimmer
Reef Breeders Photon 24 leds

Corals are floated and then dipped in bayer
Salinity --> 1.025
Alk ---> 8.5
Cal ---> 380
Mag ---> not sure...Saifert kit vial of liquid spilled. Need to get another kit
10% water changes weekly also with Coral Pro salt

Pic is cell phone...frag slightly larger that an inch tall at longest branch. Measure from top of frag plug where coral meets putty, meets plug. I will try to get a better pic with my DSLR, but wanted to get something posted for now

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

Here's mine. Dipped in Revive and placed in bottom of RSM 250 under blue/white leds. Didn't get a ruler, but will repost when I find one.

 

[aresangel]

My guy is about 3/4 of an inch. Floated and then plopped him right up on a rock.

We shall see! Good luck everyone


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[Platehead]

Here's mine. BigZ's bleached out. 120 rr AI hydra. Random dosing and water changes when we get to it. Minor acclimation, sitting on the frag rack.

 

[LKarge]

150 Gallon Tank that I've had for 15+ years.
( Started growing out corals 4 years ago; mostly Zoas and Palys.)
Filtration: Amiracle Sump with Berlin Protein Skimmer.
Lighting: Combination of lights that I have bought over the years;
(2) 36" T5 HO, 10,000K and Actinic (Backrow)
(2) 36" LED Fluval Sea Full Spectrum (Front Row)
(1) LED Galaxyhyro (Midrow over frags)
Plenty of live rock (had for 12-16 years)
Fish (Currently 12; Tangs, Clowns, Royal Grammas), Crabs, Snails and Starfish.

Acclimation: Quick dip in Coral Rx, back in bag and acclimation in tank for 20-30 minutes. m
Placed on frag rack with other Zoas & Palys where it will remain for growout.
Water changes: 20+- gallons every other week.
Dosing: Dosing-feed mineral supplements between water changes.

Photos taken with Olympus E-M10 with Olympus Macro lens.



Measuring from the top of the frag mount to the highest point of the frag is 1" 3/16.

 

[Newguy]

37 gallon tank. Marine land led and 2 t5. Weekly 10 gallon water change with io.
2.3 mm.

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[jamesdong009]

Here's mine.



It's going to stay in my 65g frag tank with a water volume of roughly 150 gallons. Lighting is a 4 bulb Tek T5 with 3 Reefbrite LED supplements. Two gallon water changes are done automatically every day with a 10% water change every two weeks when I change my carbon. No dipping since it came from my system otherwise a Bayer dip is done for other corals.

The frag is a tad bigger than 3/4" from the tip of the epoxy. It's getting about 300 par where it's sitting.

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

Here's a recent picture with a ruler. I'd say it's a touch over 1".

 

[Chlorinated]

Updated pic.

 

[wilfx]

Mine fell off the frag plug landed on the sand bed and another frag then died.

 

[GobyWanKenobie]

Mine fell off the frag plug landed on the sand bed and another frag then died.

Sorry. I hate when that happens.

 

[Chlorinated]

No growth that i see but starting to get some color in the tips

 

[aresangel]

No worries Bob, I am in the same boat. Over April vacation mine fell off and died. Looks like I am out.


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[jamesdong009]

Bumping this thread for those still in the contest. Looks like I forgot to post my May update so I guess I'm out.

Here's my frag anyways. Not too much vertical but it has encrusted the base and starting to get on the plug.

 

[Lucy]

I missed the contest, but here's a pic of my frag anyway. It's my first addition since I upgraded tanks so I'm excited

Thank you for the frag and the warm welcome at today's meeting!


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[GobyWanKenobie]

Here's my updated picture. I don't think it's any taller, but it's nose and arms are longer.