hi all

what is your most successful corals you have aquacultured in your frag projects

not making money - more like fastest growers ect

Acans.

acans do well.

Zoas.

acans.

For me it's my duncans, the grow fast and when I cut them everyone in the local club wants a frag. So they're good growers and money makers.

favias

I also have to say the Duncas, oh and the Xenia

GSp and blue cloves haha

It amazes me how many people have fast growing acans. Mine grows the slowest out of everything I've got!

My fastest would either be my trumpets or my duncans. My monti caps might rival those two before long, however.

chalice.

My zoa's average 1-10 polyps a month.

wow

how are you guys getting better results with slow growing LPS corals than softies

share your secrets

Feed 'em.
Feed 'em lots.

could well be where i am going wrong

cheers - will triple my feeding for a month (and my WC before i get flamed lol)

really, any nice frag will sell well. trick is knowing what you are doing, and having a farily attractive piece. that is all really, ive sold all frags ive mad eeventually (over a month span)

Monti Caps.

caps and palys

+1 on the Xenia. I'm already trying to get rid of them.

everyone has to talk about their Xenia success. 4 months later mine looks the same..hammer corals grow, porites grows phyllangia grows, just not the xenia... What makes it worse is I am probably the only person who wanted a tank full of xenia...that might be the cause...

LoL ... that must be the case John ... you want it so badly ... but you just can't have it

I have a hard time killing GSP ... had a piece that got completely submerged in my sand bed to later find it having spread all over the rock it was on. lol ... Palys as well.

when i first started my frogspawn was the fastest grower but now its my duncan. in 3 months 1 head became over 20.

from now on the last thing I want is a tank covered in that blue coralline lakshwa has. I would absolutely hate that.

The fastest growing and easiest to frag for me is gsp. Just snip away with scissors.

my ugly zoas grows much faster then my pretty ones lol

It's all faded/gone except for a few spots. :/

+1 to plating montiporas. They seem to be easy to frag (or accidentaly break in my case).

thats just how it always is. mine too.

GSP, mushrooms and Xenia have all been extreme growers for me. I don't mind them at all because Shrooms and GSP are easy to frag and the xenia type that I keep is a blue encrusting type that stays very short, so it looks better than the towering stalks of elongata I've seen. Either way, it's easy to kill softies by using a syringe to inject the areas you want gone with concentrated calcium or magnesium. That's how I keep their growth in check. Oh, if you want to kill GSP, drop a smidge of HeartGard (yes, the same thing used for dipping) in the tank and your GSP will die in a few days.

As for LPS, my duncan has tripled in size in less than a year, but I do feed mine generously, so maybe that's got a lot to do with it.

In the SPS department, my Milleporas, monti caps and ORA Red planet have grown at an incredible pace.

Um, I have NEVER heard of dipping with Heartguard.
Mine comes in a delicious meaty cube to feed my dog.
How exactly would one dip in this?

There are several threads about this on RC, fyi. Take part of the tablet, dissolve it in water, dip your corals in it (not all corals, it will kill some, like GSP). It will kill unwanted hitchhikers before they make it into your tank, specially worms.

Green Slimer Acro

You sound exactly like my one friend.

My monti cap grew pretty fast.

Plating Monti caps turn into weeds, especially the red/orage variety.

Acans and pallies always do really well if you feed them.

GSP is another weed in my tanks along with green nepthea.

Acropora.

I started with 2 green stripe mushrooms 5 weeks ago and now I have 6.

green palys, after 2 weeks i have a dozen on the back of my tank

oh another one to add to the list would be hair mushroom. I started with one bleached out one that i ripped in half and a few months later i over 11 shrooms. My clown loves them to.

This^^^ Haven't fragged yet but growth has quadrupled+ since I recently added my metal halide.

acans and duncan fead once a day.... fat happy and growing!

AHonetsly I don't even need to 'frag' xenia. Just get a lot of smaller rubble pieces and they eventually stretch out a branch towards the closest rock, and then eventually sever themselves in about a week or two. Oddly enough, it doesn't do well at all in my 10g, but they love my <2g pico. I saw the most growth when I put off water changes for nealy a week. Go figure, I guess...

Carbon, again.. your avatar is insane.

OMG This, a thousand times this. Nothing grows faster than green slimer.

When you inject xenia with calcium or magnesium does it create chemical warfare in the tank or do you take the xenia out and inject it outside of your tank?

For zoas that are not ugly (worth keeping) - AOGs are insane, Nuclear Greens and Daytrippers.
My LPS all grow slow, but I don't feed them.
SPS - I have a tri color that must be 18inches around from a small frag in 2.5 years - and that is with frequent fragging. I also have a yellow/green tort that grows like crazy. All montis do as well - the caps get huge in < a year. The digis grow faster than you can break and sell/give them away. Even the encrusting type grow well - but on a much smaller scale.

M.J. You need to feed them. Feed them and you can get 2-4+ a month worth of growth. Personally I use Salifert pellets due to the high fatty/amino acid et al. but you could accomplish the same thing with PE Mysid shrimp.

Photosynthetic gorgs in my opinion are the easiest to frag and they grow fast.

Zoanthids. Chalice even.

this thread is a little old, but i must say for me green star polyp grows like crazy for me. i started out with two patches the size of quarters. Now i have two rocks the size of bowling balls completely covered. The only thing i dose is kent's coralvite, and kent's nano part A/B pH stuff. 20H with 96 watts of PC (1 actinic, 1 10k) fifty or so # live rock, 2 aquaclear50 hang on back filters. I do water changes about once every couple MONTHS. i know, i know... but everything does fantastic and water quality is great.... so why mess with it. my Acan has taken off now that i feed it. and i have some kind of tree or colt coral that i could frag twice a week if i wanted.

For those who are heavily feeding LPS and palys, how do you keep your params in check?! Everytime I turkey baster feed my tank it seems like my nitrates go up 5 points (tested the next day). Feeding 1/4"x1/4" chunk of rods food soaked in selcon and garlic to a 30g.

do a water change the day after when the poops start coming out.

Montipora grows best in my tank.. Palys and zoas dont like my tank though..