Battlecorals Shag Priority Official Entries

marlinmon · May 21, 2019

Update #4

ReefyB · May 24, 2019

May 2019 update.

zbryant91 · May 28, 2019

May update. Still small but looks alive and new growth is still happening.

Rich_T · May 31, 2019

May

cnewsome · Jun 2, 2019

Here is May update plug encrusted and finally decent extension

smiley28 · Jun 15, 2019

A day late of 3 months

rcpalmer1 · Jun 15, 2019

Here is my June pic so I don't forget. Mine was very thin when I got it but it has covered the rock farther than it is tall. As is gains mass I expect growth to speed up.

Ecvernon · Jun 19, 2019

Here is my June entry. The tissue necrosis has stopped. Now it is starting to encrust and color.

CMO · Jun 24, 2019

Entry #5 as of 6.24.19. Moved the frag to a location with more room for its immanent explosion.... :rolleyes:

ReefyB · Jun 30, 2019

June 2019 update.

zbryant91 · Jun 30, 2019

Woke up one morning to find my shag bleach white. Looked fine the day before. No clue what happened. All parameters that I test for have been good. The Cookie Monster behind it doesn’t look very good right now either.

marlinmon · Jul 4, 2019

Update 5 (June) - Photo taken July 1st.

smiley28 · Jul 14, 2019

Exactly 3mo from arrival date. Color looks a little better I think? I don’t think I did very good capturing true color but it definitely has improved in person.

rcpalmer1 · Jul 19, 2019

Here is my July entry. It still hasn't started getting taller but it has encrusted out almost an inch and a half.

CMO · Jul 26, 2019

Entry # 6 as of 7.26.19

reefwreak · Jul 31, 2019

zbryant91 said:
Woke up one morning to find my shag bleach white. Looked fine the day before. No clue what happened. All parameters that I test for have been good. The Cookie Monster behind it doesn’t look very good right now either.

I wasn't part of the contest, but have been following this thread since I received this coral in my BattleBox and wanted to see how others have been doing with it. My frag did well for 2-3 weeks, and is now starting to lose flesh. Same boat as you in that I have no idea what could be causing it, since I'm all over my parameters these days, and other acros are growing and doing fine. It seems like this one might be really sensitive to shipping (or in general?), and it sounds like from a few people here that they had STN early in the game, but if it survived, they took off. Most of my BC stuff is doing great, but this will be my first loss of one of my BCs.

I wonder what takeaways Adam is getting from these growout contests. It would be interesting to be able to use this a controlled experiment for coral success, assuming appropriate tank and parameter information is posted by people.

zbryant91 · Jul 31, 2019

reefwreak said:
I wasn't part of the contest, but have been following this thread since I received this coral in my BattleBox and wanted to see how others have been doing with it. My frag did well for 2-3 weeks, and is now starting to lose flesh. Same boat as you in that I have no idea what could be causing it, since I'm all over my parameters these days, and other acros are growing and doing fine. It seems like this one might be really sensitive to shipping (or in general?), and it sounds like from a few people here that they had STN early in the game, but if it survived, they took off. Most of my BC stuff is doing great, but this will be my first loss of one of my BCs.

I wonder what takeaways Adam is getting from these growout contests. It would be interesting to be able to use this a controlled experiment for coral success, assuming appropriate tank and parameter information is posted by people.

Hopefully it's okay to post this here as the thread is supposed to be just for entries. If not, feel free to remove it. I actually found that my float switch holder which was 3d printed (purchased on ebay) was made of PLA had begun to disolve into the water. Ended up loosing the shag priority and a Cookie monster and another generic acro. I have since pulled the dissolving holder from my ATO and haven't lost anymore corals so I think that was the issue. All parameters seemed stable and never found anything out of wack. I also got a confused rainbow monti from BC when I ordered this frag and it still looks great and is growing well.