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The Rok Citi Coralz Growout Extraviganza!!!

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The Rok Citi Coralz Growout Extraviganza!!! PHOTO UPDATE 5/31/11

Rok Citi Coralz Growout.

I just want to thank Kien from http://rocciticoralz.com/for helping us out with this growout and providing us with some gem chalice frags at great prices. I also want to thank everyone else that helped make this possible. And of course I want to thank R2R and Rev for providing this wonderful community where friends can be made and this beautiful hobby shared.

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Lps1212
Salty Dog
Gonewild34
Fab1971 (initial grower)

Tank specifics 29 gallon tank T5 lighting, fiji purple, blue plus, blue special, ge 6500 and newly added led strip. mp 10, lights on 7-9 hours a day, remora skimmer, hob filter for surface agitation, carbon once a month, water changes weekly 15 percent, equipment cleaning bi-monthly, target feeding 5-6 nights a week for corals (brine shrimp, coral frenzy and fauna marin fine food), flakes every day for fish and that's all folks.

List of chalices

Reef Odessey Pinstripe chalice (Jai)
Wet Thumb Frags Holy Grail Chalice (bill)
Wet Thumb Frags Avatar Chalice (bill)
Wet thumb Frags Pink Panther sps (bill)
Klr Isle Eyes (freebie) (Dan)
Red Rum Ultra Wm (Bill)
Firecracker Chalice (me)
Thunder and Lightening (Dan)
Setting Sun (currently at Darren's/Dnov) being replaced.
Convict (Frank) receded and deceased
Tangerine Dreams (Frank) was 1 eye, now 2 eyes, growing 2 more
Strawberry wm (Frank) was 2 eyes, now 3
Blue Magic (Frank) dead
Bay Corals Planet Earth (bill) recovering
Jason Fox 4 color Watermelon (Dan) died but is being replaced
Jason Fox Wounder Woman (Dan) being replaced
Jason Fox Firefox (Dan) doing great, good grower
Reef oddysey AfterMath (Dan) colored up nice, medium grower
Matrix (snipersps) (Frank) deceased
Bahama Mama (Frank) doing good, eating and growing
My Miami (Frank) one eye looking good
Orange Immolation (Jai) stable
Rainbow Magic (Frank) doing good, now 3 eyes
Doomsday (Frank) doing good, very slow grower
Strawberry Orange Sherbert (Dan + Frank + Jai) doing great
Arc Wanted (Frank) doing good, slow growing
FnF Goku (Frank) doing great, 3 eyes
Sexy Corals Pink Flame wm (Frank) doing good, 2 eyes.
Sexy Corals Rainbow Party (Dan + Frank + Bill) doing great
Reef fanatics flamethrower (Bill) doing great, mini colony
JC orange sherbert (Frank + Jai) doing good, slow growing
WWC Subzero Watermelon (Dan + Bill + Jai + Frank) All done!!!
WWC Diablo (Dan) looking good
WWC Purple Pillow wm (Bill)
WWC Space Ghost wm (Dan + Bill) doing great
WWC Situation wm (Dan + Bill) doing great
WWC Stardust (Dan) doing good
WWC Fanta (bill) doing good
WWC Yellow Submarine (bill) doing good
OG golden banshee (Jai) stuggling since day 1
crazy swirl watermelon (Bill) receded a little
Rainbow Nebula (Dan)
Cornbred Bubble gum (Dan)
TEC Watermelon (Dan + Frank + Jai) doing great
Goldrush chalice (Frank) doing good, slow grower
Disco Inferno chalice (Dan + Frank) original with Dan (recovering), replacement (me)
Reefkoi Viron Flame (Frank + Bill) both frags are doing great and growing fast
Reefkoi Red Rimmed Chalice (Frank) doing good
Reefkoi Green envy (Jai) doing good
Snakeskin Chalice (Frank + Bill) doing good
Gonewild flame thrower (Dan)
Elite reefs Doppel Ganger (Jai)
Alien Landings chalice (Dan) doing good
Wild unamed colony from me (Bill) Dead
Reefkoi Golden Eye Freebie chalice (Dan)



Purple poison Palys (dead)
Peachy Keen Palys (Jai)
Sexy corals Flamethrower Favia (Frank) doing good, slow grower
Sexy corals Purple war coral (Jai)


All of this depends on the frags being delivered safely within a week or 2. The official grow out will start then. I will be updating this thread frequently and new pictures will be posted of the frags at least once every 7-14 days to show the progress. I believe I have prepared for everything and anyone with information or advise is more than welcome to add to this thread. Comments are always allowed but please keep them positive, this is tough enough as it is. I promise to care for these frags to the utmost of my ability. I will be feeding, testing and overseeing these frags every day without fail and my communication will always be open. Members of the group buy have my email, phone number and address. You are welcome and encouraged to contact me or stop by at anytime (with a couple of hours notice:wink:) to check out the frags or bring me food and gifts whenever you please:tongue:. I will not be taking any vacations this year and will always be at home. Feeding and dosing will be done precisely and with care every day. Water and media changes, as well as testing will be done weekly. As the growout progresses and chalices grow out, responsibility will be shared amongst the members tanks, to lessen the chance of any fatalaties. I believe I covered everything important but lmk if I missed anything. Any general information, updates and progress reports will be detailed in this thread. Subscribe to the thread and lets have fun! Thanks, Frank.

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thanks frank for being the grower i will be adding some frags to the grow out i hope the other guys like them and im looking forward to this growout
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Franky, you are the man and Im so stoked about this, I also will be adding a few bonus pieces to our grow out. I will try to post picts. Im using a Nikkon D-90 and learning how to use it so bear with me.....:bigsmile:

Gonewild, nice additions thank you
 

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Wow, look at that A-list of chalices!!! This is the ultimate chalice growout. Good luck to all buyers on this and for Fab1971 for nursing/growing the frags.
 

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I too am gonna be adding some gems to the grow out the Golden Banshee and J cigar's orange sherbert I will c if I can work on gettin some pics up guys but this is one heck of a growout been excited since talks started with Frank. Those gems look great gonewild and I'm sure yours will look aswell Saltydog. Really excited about this grow out
 
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Nice additions guys! Sorry I couldn't get you in Macropora. Because of the slow growth rate of some of these chalices, we decided to keep it limited to 4 members.
 
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Nice additions guys! Sorry I couldn't get you in Macropora. Because of the slow growth rate of some of these chalices, we decided to keep it limited to 4 members. Forgot to give thanks to Lee for also helping us out in making this happen :bigsmile: .

No problem Frank :smile:.
 

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Thats a sweet list of chalices! :xd:When did this growout start?
Too bad I couldnt get in this! Got some sick pieces I could have contributed also.. :cry:
 
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Sorry Socali, the list and members in the growout have been finalized. Due to some of these being slow growers we needed to keep it to only 3-4 people.
 

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Sorry Socali, the list and members in the growout have been finalized. Due to some of these being slow growers we needed to keep it to only 3-4 people.
Oh sorry, didnt see your post until now.
No problem guys, good luck with the growout!
 
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Thanks Gumby and SoCali! The coral list has been updated due to unforseen circumstances. First shipment of chalices will be arriving tomorrow hopefully and second one next week. Pictures will be taken once they settle in.
 
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First shipment of chalices have arrived. Keep in mind that they are stressed and off color and a little receding is showing on some. The important thing is that fed ex came through and everything is healthy. I'll start feeding them tonight and hopefully they'll start showing their true colors within 3-4 weeks. For now they are hanging out in the shade and recovering.

my miami
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fnf goku
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sexy corals pink flame
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reef fanatics flamethrower
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tiger lily (look alike?)
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crazy swirl wm.
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freebie grape wm
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freebie chalice
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nice frank! hows that tigerlily look alike look in person? what happend no OI yet?
 
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nice frank! hows that tigerlily look alike look in person? what happend no OI yet?

they are all still stressed from shipping so I have to give them a couple of weeks to recoup and gain back their colors. Next week we're getting another shipment :)
 

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yeah, I hear ya. cant wait to see how they lookin once they feel at home.:)
 

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