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Unread 01/26/2016, 12:03 PM   #26
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I agree, SIR PATRICK, makes some great points.

The link didn't work but I figured it out. Wow...spot on in that piece.

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Unread 02/09/2016, 12:22 PM   #27
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No one else has any experiences to share on the topic?

Ive still got a few more trade secrets to touch base on...but hoping to hear some experience from everyone before I do.


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Unread 05/15/2016, 09:13 PM   #28
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I had a 3 polyp frag that become unglued from a rocks and floated and got loss some where in my tank for several months. I thought it was a goner until I saw it again recently. I was pale and bleached. I glued it back more firmly and let it recovered. It is now growing and colored up. It certainly does not look like what it did before. It was yellowish, but not more green with some sparkly specks. Thank you for this thread it has give me a better perspective on what is being done and make me more wary of the latest fad polyps.


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Unread 05/16/2016, 02:26 AM   #29
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Not a zoa but..
As bought..


After letting the tank get nasty, (trying to see what it would take to get it to spread quick)

It dropped about 6 babies and they all stayed like this..



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Unread 05/16/2016, 04:40 PM   #30
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No one else has any experiences to share on the topic?

Ive still got a few more trade secrets to touch base on...but hoping to hear some experience from everyone before I do.
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Unread 05/31/2016, 08:27 PM   #31
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Unread 06/01/2016, 01:26 PM   #32
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People are using gel filters all the time now to try and create "what they see" . I don't see why people are doing this. Only reason would be because you are shooting under all blue LEDs and you don't want to turn your whites on or learn how to take a good picture. And some just use them to straight up screw with the picture and make the coral into a rainbow... I find gel filters to be lazy, sometimes shady and useless to me. And yes it's very hard to read sentences (and sometimes even just words) that are typed as paragraphs... Organizm, after I got to the bottom of your post I was laughing but also irritated deep down.

Let's revive this thread.


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Unread 06/02/2016, 08:09 PM   #33
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Back before the internet ( I really mean 90s), Saving Nemo, and the hobby taking off you would order Zoos by sizes. And when I say order I mean from exporter, trans-shipper, or even distributor. They would list them on a price sheet with several sizes and that was your only choices. It was literally like Christmas back then because not only did you not know what you were getting, you were guaranteed to get some premium stuff because it wasn't being held back or sold at a premium. I haven't seen a list in years but 10 years ago when I closed down my store you would have listings for damn near every color zoo imaginable. Back then the pinks were the cat's meow and the most expensive.

This hobby like many other things has been ruined by capitalism.


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Unread 06/17/2016, 05:28 AM   #34
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Has anyone tried any of these methods? I had some extra polyps and decided to run an experiment. I figured I would try an ice bath, the results are interesting, but not mind blowing. Just wondering if anyone else tried and what happened when they did


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Unread 04/22/2019, 06:12 PM   #35
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A friend put me on to this thread. I find it an extremely interesting read. I was sad to see that I had reached the end.

Insane prices seem to be common place in the hobby now. I can understand the ethics of selling corals on the brink of melting, but morphing corals is not entirely different from breeding snakes for morphs or dogs for specific traits etc. I suppose it depends on the brutality to which the coral is exposed to achieve that morph.

I think intentionally killing coral is quite sad but how many corals have been killed unintentionally by uneducated hobbyists. More to the point by pushing corals to the brink of what they can handle could lead to a breakthrough on how to make them more resilient making aquaculture better for everyone and possibly helping wild reefs.

I would love to read more on this topic so off to Google I go. I hope this thread comes back to life!

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