jolthoff
Community Member
Hi all,
I had fun at Nook's last night (thanks for hosting!), and he, myself, and mjcoussens were all discussing how there are corals that are very common in certain regions due to sharing within local communities that are rare elsewhere, which gave me an idea: regional frag swaps. Suppose everyone in Saint Louis has a bunch of X corals with plenty of frags to share, but no one really wants any since they already have it. But in Atlanta, they have a bunch of Y but not so much X. Instead of spending money online to get new frags, there could be a swap of Y for X to get a larger diversity of corals in the community. Of course, I mean more than one type of coral!
Here's what I propose: everyone who is interested in this share in this thread what types of corals you have to share that aren't in high demand here. Please also list how many frags of what you could share, and in what timeframe it would take you to get frags ready. If easily available, pics would be great as well, especially for something not obvious-- pics from online is fine as well as long as it looks like what you have. You can also post things you're looking for, but the realistic goal isn't to find anything specific, just find what other communities have an excess of and if we want any, although a wishlist doesn't hurt. Then I can reach out to another community to see if they're interested and what they have. And we can go from there.
I used Atlanta as an example because I'm from there and there is a sizable reefing community and club there. I propose we start there, and if it's a success, we can reach out to other communities with sizable clubs to continue this. I'm happy to organize at least the trial run with Atlanta.
Obviously, there's going to be some issues in distributing the received frags, but from my initial experience as a new member is that this community is very good at cooperation and sharing. I propose there be a priority for who gets the frags be determined by a combination of 1) those who donated frags to send and 2) who is best equipped to grow them quickly and successfully to then distribute them to other members, especially for the more desirable and/or difficult frags. Any excess would be up for grabs to other members after that.
Let me know if you are interested and what you could donate to the pool!
I had fun at Nook's last night (thanks for hosting!), and he, myself, and mjcoussens were all discussing how there are corals that are very common in certain regions due to sharing within local communities that are rare elsewhere, which gave me an idea: regional frag swaps. Suppose everyone in Saint Louis has a bunch of X corals with plenty of frags to share, but no one really wants any since they already have it. But in Atlanta, they have a bunch of Y but not so much X. Instead of spending money online to get new frags, there could be a swap of Y for X to get a larger diversity of corals in the community. Of course, I mean more than one type of coral!
Here's what I propose: everyone who is interested in this share in this thread what types of corals you have to share that aren't in high demand here. Please also list how many frags of what you could share, and in what timeframe it would take you to get frags ready. If easily available, pics would be great as well, especially for something not obvious-- pics from online is fine as well as long as it looks like what you have. You can also post things you're looking for, but the realistic goal isn't to find anything specific, just find what other communities have an excess of and if we want any, although a wishlist doesn't hurt. Then I can reach out to another community to see if they're interested and what they have. And we can go from there.
I used Atlanta as an example because I'm from there and there is a sizable reefing community and club there. I propose we start there, and if it's a success, we can reach out to other communities with sizable clubs to continue this. I'm happy to organize at least the trial run with Atlanta.
Obviously, there's going to be some issues in distributing the received frags, but from my initial experience as a new member is that this community is very good at cooperation and sharing. I propose there be a priority for who gets the frags be determined by a combination of 1) those who donated frags to send and 2) who is best equipped to grow them quickly and successfully to then distribute them to other members, especially for the more desirable and/or difficult frags. Any excess would be up for grabs to other members after that.
Let me know if you are interested and what you could donate to the pool!
