R2R Coral Grow Out Contest: Winners!!!!!!!!

[SeahorseKeeper]

First, we want to thank everyone that participated in the coral grow out competition. It was great seeing the members grow out their corals and keep their thread updated.

The winners are:

Acros:

SPS Winner:
@hart24601
Hart's Acro growout
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Acans:
@ctyler85
ctyler85 Acan submission

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Zoas:
@AJ Reef
AJ Reef's AOG grow out thread

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The grand prize winner: @Triggreef
Triggreef's Zoa Grow Out Thread

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Thank you to the sponsors that made this contest possible:

www.Orphek.com
www.SynergyReef.com
www.SaltwaterAquarium.com
www.CharityCorals.com
www.FLFragSwap.com
www.LarrysReefServices.com
www.Reef2Reef.com

 

[sassAwrasse]

Congrats Triggreef!!!

 

[SeeingGreen]

Congrats Triggreef!!!

Nice job!

 

[Rob Top1]

Thanks to the sponsors and R2R for hosting this.
I enjoyed loosing to you Hart
And am thrilled to see you won. I had plenty of time to study every entry and pic. You probably knew you had this.
Congratulations to all the others and I'd say no surprises all around!

Now what to do with my beefy Garf Bonsi frag? I already have a colony. Any one up for trading?

 

[ritter6788]

Congrats to all the winners! It was a fun contest and I hope we do it again!

 

[Triggreef]

Wow I don't even know what to say but Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I'm so happy I stayed up late to keep checking back here.

I guess I should say something about my tank and growth. I grew my zoas in a skimmer-less tank with a combo of reefbreeder leds and ebay cheap comparable leds. I did have them taking a good blast of light on my homemade acrylic (magnetic) shelf. Not sure on actual PAR but I can take a reading tomorrow. I would guestimate around 200 to 250 PAR. I tried to target feed them at night as often as possible, sometimes 5 or 6 nights a week, using either reef-roids or reef-chilli. They seemed to give a good feeding response so i kept doing it. Also my no3 is generally around 10ppm or less, and po4 throughout this competition was in the range of .2 to as high as .6 with a hanna checker. I recently just got it down to about .11 around a week ago after increasing vinegar dosing.

Thanks again @revhtree and staff, as well as all the vendors that sponsored this and made it possible. It was a ton of fun!!

And Congrats to all the other winners!

 

[Rob.D]

Congrats to all the winners!

I'll try my best not to drop out next time

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[AJ Reef]

Thanks! and congrats to everyone who stuck it out to the end. A big thanks to Larry's Reef Services, Fl Frag Swap, Charity Corals, Saltwater Aquarium, SynergyReef, and Orphek!

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Congrats to the winners!! Great job!

 

[Up2no6ood]

Congrats! Had fun and can't wait to do it again !

 

[BWilliby]

Congratulations guys! Awesome job!

 

[Eckolancer]

Congrats guys

 

[kireek]

*Congratulations,hart24601,AJ Reef ,ctyler85 and Triggreef!* Very well done!

Special thanks to the Reef2Reef sponsors who make this forum a great place to be!

 

[revhtree]

Thanks to everyone who played along, to all of our awesome sponsors who contributed prizes, and to the mods for helping out with this! Special thanks to SeahorseKeeper for really keeping track of all the entries and for her hard work!

Winners please OM me with your name, shipping info, and email!

 

[macscale]

Congrats to everyone! Very cool!

 

[hart24601]

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a fun contest, thanks! And perfect since I just switched lights to hydra 26 and I was thinking of getting another unit. So exciting, 99% of the time I have no idea what I am doing, lucky to get the 1% right for once, haha.

 

[ctyler85]

I'm currently on vacation so haven't been keeping a close eye on the forums. I just want to say thank you to revhtree and seahorsekeeper for all their hard work in making this contest possible. Thank you to all the sponsors who helped make this possible and donated. This was a lot of fun, the competition was definitely very close. Even without winning it was a lot of fun to actually document the growth on a monthly basis and really see how everything does. Hopefully we can do another in the future with some different species I will keep this short until I get back from vacation, but again, thank you to everyone.

 

[SpartaReef]

good job everyone! Wish I coulda stayed in the running...

 

[kireek]

I'm currently on vacation so haven't been keeping a close eye on the forums. I just want to say thank you to revhtree and seahorsekeeper for all their hard work in making this contest possible. Thank you to all the sponsors who helped make this possible and donated. This was a lot of fun, the competition was definitely very close. Even without winning it was a lot of fun to actually document the growth on a monthly basis and really see how everything does. Hopefully we can do another in the future with some different species I will keep this short until I get back from vacation, but again, thank you to everyone.

I as well enjoyed the documentation process.I would like to take more frequent pictures of my frags as I acquire them. I also would like to cast my vote for a brains category!