MTRC Coral Library

[bgruchow]

I was looking through some posts and saw that ETRC has a coral library. I at first tried to figure out what a coral library would be.
I think it we be cool if we had one. Every person could add a different piece of coral and once a year we could frag off pieces. Any input, has anyone heard or tried this?????????? LMK

 

[calvo15290]

I thank that's great are you talking like a tank full of frags to grow n share for free


Andrew calvo

 

[p woodard]

We talked about doing it about a year ago or so it did not last at all and no the frags would not be free

 

[calvo15290]

Oh lol my bad well I thank that's a good Idia or all of us frag and keep them in a tank for the frag swap and whoever gave gets 10% of what the frag makes the rest of the cash goes to the club


Andrew calvo

 

[p woodard]

Oh lol my bad well I thank that's a good Idia or all of us frag and keep them in a tank for the frag swap and whoever gave gets 10% of what the frag makes the rest of the cash goes to the club


Andrew calvo

most frag are $20 to $30 at 10% you would only get $2 to $3 no one would frag something for that

 

[calvo15290]

Okay true good basic Idia in my mind


Andrew calvo

 

[calvo15290]

Or 80-20 we get 80 the club gets 20


Andrew calvo

 

[bgruchow]

We talked about doing it about a year ago or so it did not last at all and no the frags would not be free

I have no idea how it would work, when it was proposed how were they going to do it?

 

[p woodard]

That also would mean the person that keeps the tank up would have to keep up with who's frag is who's just a big headache for someone

 

[bgruchow]

most frag are $20 to $30 at 10% you would only get $2 to $3 no one would frag something for that

I would be more interested to have it be something where everyone contributes. And maybe we use it for giveaways. Or everyone gets to choose one piece to frag a year. Or for those the contributed after a year we could frag one piece a month for meeting. Just ideas.

 

[p woodard]

I have no idea how it would work, when it was proposed how were they going to do it?

I cant remember

 

[bgruchow]

That also would mean the person that keeps the tank up would have to keep up with who's frag is who's just a big headache for someone

I would rather just keep track of who contributed. Anything except xenia.

 

[Rob.D]

Hey guys, don't mean to but in.....the way we handle the library is the club purchased a frag pack with club funds and grew out enough polyps to supply club members. The club keeps a minimum of one polyp of each different morph in the "club frag tank", so that in case the 'loaned out" coral dies there is still a replacement. Our BOD came up with the rules and so far they have worked well: the rules were laid out in this thread.
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/east-tennessee-reef-club/92508-etrc-library-wish-list.html

 

[k2parkstar]

We started it a different way. This was an idea I came up with that we the BOD tweaked and it has gone very well so far. I would suggest having Rob explain it to you at frag swap. It would be a lot for me to type, lol.

 

[p woodard]

How will you know who gets what I mean if somebody buys a frag who gets the money or trade

 

[k2parkstar]

Hey guys, don't mean to but in.....the way we handle the library is the club purchased a frag pack with club funds and grew out enough polyps to supply club members. The club keeps a minimum of one polyp of each different morph, so that in case the 'loaned out" coral dies there is still a replacement. Our BOD came up with the rules and so far they have worked well:
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/east-tennessee-reef-club/92508-etrc-library-wish-list.html

I just volunteered you to explain! Lol

 

[p woodard]

We will start this if we get 50+ members at the meeting Sat. LOL and if you read Chris's thread this may not work if you can't sell or trade frags of some kinds

 

[gmoney243]

As i recall its free. U just keep what u grow and return the frag u borrowed.

 

[p woodard]

On ETRC said for a small fee

 

[k2parkstar]

On ETRC said for a small fee

That's correct, the checkout fee is minimal though. Like utter chaos is $25 to check out. Or strawberry wines $5-$10 I think. So only a small fee when compared to retail