Why aren’t there more grow out challenges?

TopShelfAquatics · Sep 24, 2020

Lots of people start and very few keep up with the updates unfortunately

Johniejumbo · Sep 24, 2020

TopShelfAquatics said:
Lots of people start and very few keep up with the updates unfortunately

I can see that. I followed a couple of grow out threads here on r2r and didn’t notice many at the finish line a year later. I wondered if it was more lack of success, or short attention span. There is no shortage of either in reef keeping. It seems like it would be a good low pressure way to keep interest in the tank up.

fishguy242 · Sep 24, 2020

Johniejumbo said:
I can see that. I followed a couple of grow out threads here on r2r and didn’t notice many at the finish line a year later. I wondered if it was more lack of success, or short attention span. There is no shortage of either in reef keeping. It seems like it would be a good low pressure way to keep interest in the tank up.

i'll chime in when my pieces arrive prob mon, lets start a new thread calling it a documentry or something to that effect,this ones all full of extra posts already

tinhorse · Sep 25, 2020

I have a few pieces that I can add to this. All were given to me by a fellow refer. All easy to care for corals.

tinhorse · Sep 25, 2020

These are from May 1st and May 15th. These next ones are from Sept 25.

Johniejumbo · Sep 25, 2020

This is my purple stylo after 3 months. It’s growing good!

fishguy242 · Sep 25, 2020

hi,all mine should be here sunday

tankstudy · Sep 25, 2020

TopShelfAquatics said:
Lots of people start and very few keep up with the updates unfortunately

I wouldn't be too surprised if it's because their piece kicked the bucket.

Johniejumbo · Sep 25, 2020

I’ve looked at some of the grow out challenge threads. (Just the battlecorals ones really) It seems they are mostly using very challenging corals. Which makes sense for those black belt coral keepers, but I’d be more likely to keep it up with something that I felt I could for sure keep alive. What’s up with that star polyps grow out challenge y’all! ;Hilarious

living_tribunal · Sep 25, 2020

Johniejumbo said:
Seriously though. This seems like a natural progression for a hobby. Competition. Grow out challenges seem like a good thing for this community. What’s y’all’s thought on it?

As the connoisseur of coral crap, I endorse this message.

living_tribunal · Sep 25, 2020

Johniejumbo said:
I’ve looked at some of the grow out challenge threads. (Just the battlecorals ones really) It seems they are mostly using very challenging corals. Which makes sense for those black belt coral keepers, but I’d be more likely to keep it up with something that I felt I could for sure keep alive. What’s up with that star polyps grow out challenge y’all! ;Hilarious

Git gud

Johniejumbo · Sep 25, 2020

living_tribunal said:
Git gud

I’ll take anyone in a hair algae grow out challenge. Gud is subjective. You need to grow enough greens to feed a dugong? I’m elite level pro status.

living_tribunal · Sep 25, 2020

Johniejumbo said:
I’ll take anyone in a hair algae grow out challenge. Gud is subjective. You need to grow enough greens to feed a dugong? I’m elite level pro status.

Respect

Ef4life · Oct 1, 2020

We do challenges on another reef forum. Some contests dictate the size, budget, diy etc.

the current one we are doing is a year long. Specs were it must be an aio - diy or store bought from 0-20g. to stay in the game you just need to do a monthly full tank shot/ build thread update. It’s been a lot of fun.

at the end of the competition, members vote for winners in a few categories, winners get a few prizes from sponsors/vendors.