Official POTO Acro Grow-Off - Vote for your POTO stick head and win prizes.

[Pieces of the Ocean]

At POTO, we only test alk and po4 regularly, and we plot the values on a line chart to give us a big picture about the systems:

Here's a closer look at each contestant's parameters from historic trends for the last 4 months.

And here's a look at the parameters from last year to now:

First thing you will notice is that there are lots of swings. Some of the spikes correlate with a large sale such as a live sale, or selling off colonies. This gives us a birds-eye view of the tanks and what event might have triggered any large swings. We test alk from 2x a week to sometimes daily. So we are used to seeing swings. But we have to keep in mind that these data are for a long period of time. But overall the trend is a flat line.

 

[jackson6745]

That frag realized that there’s no food in Will’s clean *** reef and it self destructed!

 

[Pieces of the Ocean]

Video is posted in the 1st post!

 

[Juano908]

Haha yea I'm one.

Here's some eye candy from my home system to give everyone something to look at.

Definitely the same routine here I do with all my systems. Pretty middle ground on maintenance but more or less not messing around with things. System is straight forward for the last 8 years.

System im growing the frag out in is just about a year old. Definitely what i noticed is acropora tend to fill out alot quicker in a newer setup. Believe its because the individual doesnt have to compete with 20 pounds of good ol alive calcium carbonate compared to my home display.

What else is nice, throught the thread hopefully we can teach some of what we learn and experiences we go through growing these pieces out. All 3 tanks have wildy different set of reefing fundamentals, would be really interesting to see the effects of our individual programs on how the coral thrives, colors, overall health of the skin and polyp extension. We normally just mess around at the shop with stuff like this but why not have it public. There's tons of pro tips I'm sure well share, can definitely relate to it as well along with a timeline to hopefully see results.

Enjoy guys! Chris

I always enjoy watching pictures of your corals, really eye candy’s!!!!

 

[reef_ranch]

Great job with the video. Let the games begin!

 

[Shawnd08]

I had to go with Chris, but I have a feeling it's going to be very close between the three.

 

[Johnd651]

Very nice frags.

 

[Peter Boccaccio]

Chris you got this

 

[J.chemicals]

Let's go Will!

 

[dreamscape]

Go Kenny! Team Moonshiners

 

[Will_W]

Let's go Team Will!

 

[Dburr1014]

I don't know any of your team but based on just the video, I voted Chris.
Chris, you are leading the votes by landfall, don't let us down!
LOL

 

[penguinexdeus]

Good things about each... Going with Kenny... Just about to hit the 3 month moonshine growth spurt...

 

[RevMH]

What's the name of this beauty?

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Get those votes in!

If you had already voted, please do so again bc we had to reset the poll due to a snafu with the polling system.

 

[Pieces of the Ocean]

Get those votes in!

If you had already voted, please do so again bc we had to reset the poll due to a snafu with the polling system.

Thank you @Daniel@R2R! We had to restart the poll because it wasn't display users, which wouldn't let us see who voted. Please cast your vote again so we can have your vote counted. Thank you!

 

[Evil1]

My money is on you Chris! I’ll be in to buy your winning frag with a hand truck when the contest is over! Lol. See all of you to pick up my next REEFnBID winnings.

 

[RevMH]

What's the name of this beauty?

@Sabellafella
What's the name of this piece? It's stunning.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Not sure who those people are lol…

These people are the best! Love me some POTO! But secretly Will is my favorite….shhhh don’t tell the others!

Great place to get corals from! The best if you ask me!

Great live sales.

Great auctions - the use to do them on there site now they do them at ReefnBid - after then auction end any that are not bought get listed as Second Chances - not sure how they determine the price for that BUT it’s definitely reasonable!

Great guarantee on corals when shipped! 14 days - can’t beat that anywhere! POTOs customer service is top notch and super responsive.

-this is not a paid advertisement, the participants were not paid for their recommendations-

I may be partial to POTO. Prior to my tank going poop after moving I bought the majority of my corals from them. I also got a lot from @Zoanthids live sales. Also great people!

Ok advertisement over

 

[Troylee]

These people are the best! Love me some POTO! But secretly Will is my favorite….shhhh don’t tell the others!

Great place to get corals from! The best if you ask me!

Great live sales.

Great auctions - the use to do them on there site now they do them at ReefnBid - after then auction end any that are not bought get listed as Second Chances - not sure how they determine the price for that BUT it’s definitely reasonable!

Great guarantee on corals when shipped! 14 days - can’t beat that anywhere! POTOs customer service is top notch and super responsive.

-this is not a paid advertisement, the participants were not paid for their recommendations-

I may be partial to POTO. Prior to my tank going poop after moving I bought the majority of my corals from them. I also got a lot from @Zoanthids live sales. Also great people!

Ok advertisement over

I know who poto is just wasn’t aware of the employee names.. lol