Survival - not the TV show....

MnFish1 · May 20, 2019

Curious people are always buying frags - and every now and then (every other day lol:) there is a comment about 'the high prices'. So - I'm curious - what percentage of your frags actually 'grow into colonies - lets say 5 inches or more. How important do you think stable alkalinity is in keeping yours frags growing (comment)

BTW (for the purposes of this thread - don't count frags that grow large and then are fragged) - you can count them as 'survivors'.

KrisReef · May 20, 2019

Yup, I’m pretty unstable over time. I have grown some +5 colonies but I frag them and sell, trade, or give them to the LFS. Since Indo has closed I am rethinking my ways.

Auquanut · May 20, 2019

Maybe a better question would be about mortality rate before corals reach 5". I've got quite a few corals in my 125. To the best of my recollection, Ive only lost four. I have some that have gotten very big, but a lot that have not reached 5" yet. If I group all of my smaller corals into the less than 5" category, it would kind of look like I have a high mortality rate. If that makes any sense. It would be interesting to find out how successful we are as a group at raising our frags into large colonies. And stable alkalinity is very important in my opinion.

MnFish1 · May 20, 2019

Auquanut said:
Maybe a better question would be about mortality rate before corals reach 5". I've got quite a few corals in my 125. To the best of my recollection, Ive only lost four. I have some that have gotten very big, but a lot that have not reached 5" yet. If I group all of my smaller corals into the less than 5" category, it would kind of look like I have a high mortality rate. If that makes any sense. It would be interesting to find out how successful we are as a group at raising our frags into large colonies. And stable alkalinity is very important in my opinion.

That was the question I was actually trying to ask - how would you re-word it? PS - I did edit the comment in the thread (the first one)

Auquanut · May 20, 2019

MnFish1 said:
That was the question I was actually trying to ask - how would you re-word it? PS - I did edit the comment in the thread (the first one)

I have no idea. I'm not very good with words. They kind of scare me. Maybe one of our wordsmiths out there can help. It really would be helpful I think to get a general idea of how successful we are, not only with raising corals in our homes, but also how much we are able to put them back out there for others.