CTARS - Coral Growout Competition!!!

[BfishLpond78]

Alright boy and girls, it’s time to put your reefing skills to the test, we are hoping for a bi-annual showdown of your coral growing abilities. So whatever your argument or preference…MH over LED’s…or vice versa…two part dosing over calcium reactors…Lets put our corals where our mouths are…have some fun and grow some coral for the ultimate bragging rights!!!

So we decided to setup a friendly competition a coral frag grow out contest. I thought that we should give it a shot, we as club would have to "choose as a group" what type of coral to grow out. Keep in mind I would like to get everyone involved so easier corals like Zoas or other lower light corals for the 1st one and if it goes well then we could try SPS for the next round. I’m really leaning toward zoas as they are easy to get and frag, and it would be a good pilot to this contest.

The contest will be based on a percentage of growth not on total heads. This is due to not everyone may start with the same amount of heads. So for example you start with 1 head and grow 3 that would be a total of 4 heads and a 300% growth. If you start with 3 heads and end with 8 heads that would be a 5 head change and 267% growth. Highest percentage wins half of the pot (prize will be in the form of a gift certificate of winners choice). I believe this will be a lot of fun and some good bragging rights for the winner.

We will run this contest for 5 months; I would like to be started by the January meeting that way corals can be distributed. Please let me know who is interested and their preference of corals to be grown. I will also create an offical competition thread once things get under way!

There must be a few rules of course.

RULES

1. As a group pick a coral for the contest (If someone has a large colony to donate that would be awesome or compensation can be made)

2. A $5.00 buy in. Half of the funds generated will be given to the winner and the other half back to the club. PayPal will be set up.

3. A contest thread will be created to track the progress of each contestant. Each month, members will be asked to submit a photo of the frag to the thread stating how many heads the coral has.

4. We will do a monthly check in to show the progress of your coral. It will happen on the 15th of every month. In order to continue to participate in the competition you must post a picture and provide a polyp count. (there will be a grace period, but i'd like to keep it close to the 15th)

5. I will keep a running chart the shows the date and progress of each competitor with polyp count so we can track our growth

6. At the end on the contest the winner will be asked to do a small write up about what they did to get the best growth.

If I have missed something or there is a question, please feel free to ask it as I know I’m probably leaving a whole bunch of stuff out. Most importantly let’s have a lot of fun and continue to grow captive grown corals!!!

[Blitzie]

Excellent idea and plan
Just wish it wasn't zoas as I can't grow them worth a crap

[BfishLpond78]

Excellent idea and plan
Just wish it wasn't zoas as I can't grow them worth a crap

It doesn't have to be zoas, I figured it would be a good way to introduce the contest and would be a way for everyone to get involved. Don't worry, after this one we will prolly do some sticks for ya :beer:

[captc07]

Great idea!

[BfishLpond78]

I have added a poll to the thread, as stated for the first go around, I think sticking to soft corals will be the best for now. I apologize in advance for those that are not a fan of these, but we will be doing another competition down the road!

[captc07]

I think zoas just lend themselves to easy measurement.

[SteelerMike]

Sounds cool to me! I'd be in

[uskram]

Excellent idea!

[gmate]

As I was reading this I was wondering how it would work for SPS...zoas are definitely the way to go here! I'm all in on something like this for sure. Start our engines at something like 3 polyps...then see where we can take it from there? Or would we be starting at one polyp?

[Chriskid]

Start our engines at something like 3 polyps...then see where we can take it from there? Or would we be starting at one polyp?

i think it is to be determined.

[sassAwrasse]

Great idea Mike!

[BfishLpond78]

I would really like to start with multiple polyps but it is all depending on what we get to work with. I realize starting with 3 polyps of whatever has a better chance of growing more, but remember its based on % of growth not the number of heads grown.

I'm really happy to see folks interested already.

Depending on which coral is picked will determine some additional rules...(i.e. Zoas, baby heads will count as half, so if you have one adult and one baby, it will count as 1.5)

[M_Jaco]

SPS growth could easily be measured by the mass of the coral itself. start them on a uniform base(frag plug), determine the initial mass of the coral, and weigh at the end to determine %mass increase from start

[BfishLpond78]

SPS growth could easily be measured by the mass of the coral itself. start them on a uniform base(frag plug), determine the initial mass of the coral, and weigh at the end to determine %mass increase from start

Wow that's a stellar idea, never thought of that.

Would you happen to be an engineer? Sounds like something the guys I work with would say.

[Paulywalnuts]

Mike, I got a shet load of nuclear green. Trust me, all you need is one to start.. Lol I will donate. All off them buddy.
Let me know when we can do chalices. Because I will probably be dead by the time this 3G grows an inch!!!!$&@/

[M_Jaco]

Wow that's a stellar idea, never thought of that.

Would you happen to be an engineer? Sounds like something the guys I work with would say.

yup, you hit the nail on the head :hammer:

[BfishLpond78]

Mike, I got a shet load of nuclear green. Trust me, all you need is one to start.. Lol I will donate. All off them buddy.
Let me know when we can do chalices. Because I will probably be dead by the time this 3G grows an inch!!!!$&@/

Pauly, that is so generous and very awesome of you!!! I'd like to see how the poll does till January to give people a chance to express their opinions. Nuke greens are sweet too!!!

I hear ya on chalices...I can't grow them. Lol

[phillrodrigo]

I may have to join ctars just to participate in this. I bought one 1 p bkue hornet at the last farmers market have fraggeded 3 6 polyp frags off of it and still have about 70 polyps.

[JustinBT]

This is an awesome idea. My only thought was if we start with a different number of polyps, would say three polyps produce faster than one? I may be thinking about it the wrong way and the percentage thing will cover that, sometimes math messes me up. But three polyps or a mini colony will have more mat surface area for new polyps to sprout from, and the polyps will be working together to gather more energy for the colony. It seems like an exponential growth thing rather than a straight line?

[BfishLpond78]

This is an awesome idea. My only thought was if we start with a different number of polyps, would say three polyps produce faster than one? I may be thinking about it the wrong way and the percentage thing will cover that, sometimes math messes me up. But three polyps or a mini colony will have more mat surface area for new polyps to sprout from, and the polyps will be working together to gather more energy for the colony. It seems like an exponential growth thing rather than a straight line?

Justin,

This thought did come up, we are going to try and make everyone recieve the same amount of coral, if it ends up being zoas, I would like to start with 3 polyps each if possible.

[BfishLpond78]

yup, you hit the nail on the head :hammer:

Nothing wrong with that!!! After 3 years hanging out with aerostructure engineers my mind starts to think like that also...well sometimes anyway.. :bounce3:

[JustinBT]

I knew you guys had it figured out :D Count me in, just for fun, my zoas don't grow like Phil's! This should be really interesting

[phillrodrigo]

Definitely need to start with the same amount. It usually takes a month for them to start spreading. It took me awhile to get to like 10 but at a certian point I now get a new bh polyp perday. I fragged 2 frags last week for 2 ctar members and you wouldnt even know that I did. Also everyone should start with the same kind preferably from the same colony but not a must. My hornets dragon eyes amd radio active dragon eyes grow crazy. Any of the higher light bigger polyp ones grow fast. Any of the deep water small polyp zoas grow sloooooowww. This is just from my experience but I could be wrong

[frankyrivera]

Great idea I've always wondered what grows better zoas low nutrient systems like SPS tanks or dirtier tanks (higher nutrient) since I can't seem to grow zoas anyways.

[LeslieP]

Sounds great - I want to give it a shot. I love zoas and can always use some new ones

[BfishLpond78]

Yes, we will be doing out best to make sure everyone starts with the same amount and all from the same colony.

PaulyWalnuts has generously offered up a colony of Nuclear Greens. Hopefully we will go that route and get this going. Need to wait till after the holidays to give everyone a chance to view the thread and see if they are interested.

[RossTheReefer]

I'm in! Sounds like fun

[phillrodrigo]

Great idea I've always wondered what grows better zoas low nutrient systems like SPS tanks or dirtier tanks (higher nutrient) since I can't seem to grow zoas anyways.

I dont think they really care to be honest. Its more abosut stability with them. Giving them a solid home to stay in. When I leave frags in the sand bed trying to figure were I wanna keep them they dont grow ever. As soon at they are in there final home they spread like wild fire. I probably should tell everyone all this after the contest but oh well.

[frankyrivera]

My tank is rock solid steady every thing else grows but chalices and zoas are slooooow!!! In my tank lol

[BfishLpond78]

My tank is rock solid steady every thing else grows but chalices and zoas are slooooow!!! In my tank lol

Maybe cause you only look at your SPS...you have to show to everyone love...

[Masedaddy]

I agree with everyone getting a frag with the same number of polyps and from the same colony, if we are talking about Z/P's....

[frankyrivera]

I'm in wth

[BfishLpond78]

I'm in wth

Good boy

[Blitzie]

I am in

[PL-Reef]

Game on Mike, I'm in.

[Paulywalnuts]

We are going to have to make a custom frag plug per member. So there is no cheating! Lol
Also side wagers always make things a little more fun.

[sassAwrasse]

Why not use a flat tile and mark initials on the bottom with a fat tip sharpee?

[captc07]

Also side wagers always make things a little more fun.

A man after my own heart!

[Chriskid]

We are going to have to make a custom frag plug per member. So there is no cheating! Lol
Also side wagers always make things a little more fun.

im sure if wanted, i can make this happen. custom plates

[Dragonvale]

Wow, you guys have a lot of members. One little thing we did was get a coral in this case a zoa that the club didn't have. Since we have swaps and trade with one another having a new zoa circulated was our idea. Great start. Our club is down for the "west vs east". Will be watching this thread and see how it turns out. wine country reefers :)

[Chriskid]

Wow, you guys have a lot of members. One little thing we did was get a coral in this case a zoa that the club didn't have. Since we have swaps and trade with one another having a new zoa circulated was our idea. Great start. Our club is down for the "west vs east". Will be watching this thread and see how it turns out. wine country reefers :)

Now that is cool!!!

[Trump]

Iam in as well. I am down with the idea of getting a colony that may be something that we dont have a ton of in the club. Id be willing to kick in a couple bucks.

[Chriskid]

Wow, you guys have a lot of members. One little thing we did was get a coral in this case a zoa that the club didn't have. Since we have swaps and trade with one another having a new zoa circulated was our idea. Great start. Our club is down for the "west vs east". Will be watching this thread and see how it turns out. wine country reefers :)

im trying to talk to bigfish about this.
i myself am up for a dual!! let us talk it up and come up with a proposal.

[PL-Reef]

im trying to talk to bigfish about this.
i myself am up for a dual!! let us talk it up and come up with a proposal.

This sounds freaken awesome!

[BfishLpond78]

Hey Dragon! Welcome to the east coast, I know we spoke briefly about a little cross country grow out contest.

Let me know when your holiday meeting is over and we will get this ball rolling. We have about 25 members interested and I feel if we did the east vs west we would get a lot more interest. Maybe we could make this an annual thing if all goes well.

Keep in touch.

[JustinBT]

This is the greatest reefin' idea yet Mike, a national grow out league!


im sure if wanted, i can make this happen. custom plates

Chris, Collin gave me a couple plates you made a while back, they worked out really well. One is a foot to keep my duncan upright in the sand. I will vouch for quality :)

[Paulywalnuts]

That is a great idea folks! Also to get something rare or high line would be the bomb. This is where a Lfs or someone wholesale can step in and help us snatch a good deal on something sexy!
I am down to put cash in.


Btw get the coral p.e.d.s ready! Haha

[BfishLpond78]

That is a great idea folks! Also to get something rare or high line would be the bomb. This is where a Lfs or someone wholesale can step in and help us snatch a good deal on something sexy!
I am down to put cash in.


Btw get the coral p.e.d.s ready! Haha

If we do a coast to coast competition we will need to get the same colony from the same vendor...we need to keep things as similar as possible when it comes to getting the coral, its tough but I think it can be done.

what is a p.e.d.s?

[Masedaddy]

Performance enhancing drugs....

[BfishLpond78]

HAHAHAHA....Reef Roids baby!!!

[CountryBob]

Great Idea ! I am in. Also you might want to talk with Emery. He has designed a pedestal type reef plug that would be perfect for this application. The surface area is large and it can be moved around the tank easily and if you get amazing growth you can abutt it to another. I am not sure if it is in production however I have seen the proto type and they are nice. Lets maybe buy a batch of them for our contest.

[yuquita]

Would be a really cool idea..
Would also be a good idea to say what type of light they are running and how long are they on and when lights come on

[yuquita]

One of my friends from facebook he also sells corals says he has a nice zoa that is a fast grower his website is richreefer.com and you can find him on facebook same name richreefer you can talk to him and see what you guys can come up with im yuquita agron on facebook.

[Vaiodude]

I am in! This sounds like fun!

[Dragonvale]

Performance enhancing drugs....


In the coral world is photo shop LOL:D

[BfishLpond78]

One of my friends from facebook he also sells corals says he has a nice zoa that is a fast grower his website is richreefer.com and you can find him on facebook same name richreefer you can talk to him and see what you guys can come up with im yuquita agron on facebook.

I follow that guy on instagram.

The CTARS club alone has about 30 votes in...and its only been a couple of days. I will set up a paypal account in the next few days and see how many we get, then we can determine where we get the corals from.

[LeslieP]

Before we set up payment, perhaps we ought to figure out when and where the collection would take place? It might have an impact on whether or not people would be able to participate.

[BfishLpond78]

Well the good thing is that alot of people across the state are interested in the contest. So I was hoping after they are all fragged up and ready to go. We could distribute a majority of them at the meeting and if folks are unable to attend we could send people home with them that live close and arrange a pick up.

[JustinBT]

I've heard of HGH as SPS food, let's see what it does for zoas! Maybe we can do a group buy, who's got extra bit coins?? Lol
Mike, what's your Instagram handle?

[BfishLpond78]

Instagram - Mthomp78

[emessier]

You can count me in I am always up for some competition!! Lol

[emessier]

If you do a SPS contest maybe someone might have a scale used in the "Medical profession for weighing prescription drugs" Lol and the corals could be weighed in grams?? Start and finish?

[BfishLpond78]

If you do a SPS contest maybe someone might have a scale used in the "Medical profession for weighing prescription drugs" Lol and the corals could be weighed in grams?? Start and finish?

That's what we were thinking Emery, someone had previously mentioned weighing out the SPS before and after to get an idea of the mass that the coral gained rather than size as it would be pretty tought to do. I think it would have to be on a large frag disk too in case it decides to base out first vs growing up. Cause we all know they love to do that first.

[sassAwrasse]

That's what we were thinking Emery, someone had previously mentioned weighing out the SPS before and after to get an idea of the mass that the coral gained rather than size as it would be pretty tought to do. I think it would have to be on a large frag disk too in case it decides to base out first vs growing up. Cause we all know they love to do that first.

We have a scale we used for weighing out food portions. We would set the container or bag at "tar" so it wouldn't count the weight of the bag/container. You could do the same thing with tiles as long as the tiles are uniform.

[emessier]

We have a scale we used for weighing out food portions. We would set the container or bag at "tar" so it wouldn't count the weight of the bag/container. You could do the same thing with tiles as long as the tiles are uniform.

You could actually just weigh the entire plug or tile with the coral on it. That weight could be used as a tare weight on final weigh in.

[BfishLpond78]

You could actually just weigh the entire plug or tile with the coral on it. That weight could be used as a tare weight on final weigh in.

+1 this is probably what we would do, we would then mark who got which coral. It would be more labor intensive but it would ensure accuracy.

[Reefir]

Sounds like a REALLY cool Idea!!!

[yuquita]

Another good one would be montis they are fast growers too..

[JustinBT]

Instagram - Mthomp78

You got followed sir

I'm all in when we get to a monti comp.
Mike, did you donate a frag of your orange cap to the raffle maybe six months or more ago? I won a piece and didn't know who it came from, but it grows like nothing else. An inch became my tank's center piece, while stuff I've had twice as long is half the size.

[BfishLpond78]

You got followed sir

I'm all in when we get to a monti comp.
Mike, did you donate a frag of your orange cap to the raffle maybe six months or more ago? I won a piece and didn't know who it came from, but it grows like nothing else. An inch became my tank's center piece, while stuff I've had twice as long is half the size.

Yes I usually bring some in for the raffles. Glad to hear its doing well for you!

[JarekS]

If you do a SPS contest maybe someone might have a scale used in the "Medical profession for weighing prescription drugs" Lol and the corals could be weighed in grams?? Start and finish?

I have a small digital scale which measures grains and grams and has nothing to do with food industry :)

[frankyrivera]

I have a small digital scale which measures grains and grams and has nothing to do with food industry :)

Meth lab alert lol. Are you the teacher from breaking bad ?

[Vaiodude]

Meth lab alert lol. Are you the teacher from breaking bad ?

LOL! Love it!

[LeslieP]

Joking aside, I do have balances at work that can weigh grams or milligrams. Micrograms too but that one's a pain to work with.

[frankyrivera]

I have a digital scale I used for weight watchers when I was trying to lose weight now that I've given up all hope on that frontier we can use that scale for anything

[JarekS]

Meth lab alert lol. Are you the teacher from breaking bad ?

Ah, no. It has to do with propelling small objects at high velocities :P

[triggreef]

I'm in I been doing ok with zoas. Sounds like fun.

[EvilMel]

I didn't see this thread until now but I'd be up for the contest. I would very likely lose but it'd be fun to play!

I have a food scale and a precision balance used in analytical measurements.

I wonder if the difference in frag plug weight (plug to plug) would be greater than the difference in zoa weight. I mean, zoas don't weight much in comparison to plugs so the variability in the weight of the plug could be problematic. We could figure it out pretty quickly though.

Actually I've got a bunch of those oceans wonders plugs. I'll go see how different they are in weight and let you know. Otherwise we might be better off with those clear plastic plugs (as unsightly as they are). I would bet that they have a more consistent weight. I'm not sure if any of this is even an issue...just haven't got a clue how much zoas weigh.

[frankyrivera]

Maybe whoever is glueing the frags to the plugs can weigh each plug prior to gluing the zoas and run a master sheet numbered with the weight and track the names of the players with the numbers on the master list so when weigh in time comes each plug weight was prerecorded for each individual frag plug

[EvilMel]

Well, that would be the most scientific way to do it but I don't want to totally spoil the fun.

I'll go weigh those plugs and see how much of a difference there is. Maybe it won't matter.

[EvilMel]

Ok. I weighed 22 Oceans Wonders plugs and they all came in at either 6 or 7 grams. My kitchen scale doesn't have measurements below one gram though so I don't know if they're all 6.3-6.8 or if the range is more like 5.6-7.4.

I have no idea how much zoas weigh but I don't think we should necessarily worry about it a ton. Doesn't seem to be THAT variable in weight. If people are really worried, then it can bring the fine balance from work and we can measure them that way.

Let's make sure to give Pauly a super light weight one though.

I also weighed two plastic plugs that I've got and they both were 5g but that's not a large enough sample size to matter.

[LeslieP]

Mel, off-topic but what do you do in your lab?

[captc07]

I think with zoas weight won't be an issue because the results would be measured in new polyps. Weight was brought into the discussion with the other types or coral for future growout competitions.

[phillrodrigo]

Im going to be in on this one. I would have already joined Ctars but the guy who does my ordering is paying for me him and one of his clients club fees for xmas. So dont start before I join.

[BfishLpond78]

Lol I think you kids are over thinking this, for this first go around we will count polyps. Lol.

If we do SPS we can weigh them, we will cut, glue and weigh each piece and mark that frag with a number or some sort of identification and record it and who it goes to.

[mcpiii1124]

Lol I think you kids are over thinking this, for this first go around we will count polyps. Lol.

If we do SPS we can weigh them, we will cut, glue and weigh each piece and mark that frag with a number or some sort of identification and record it and who it goes to.

Im in for zoas

[BfishLpond78]

Looks like 37 people have casted a vote, and it looks like the zoas won by plane ride.

I will set up a PayPal link soon to get an offical contest count of who will be participating in this event.

Hope everyone is still excited about this!!!

[frankyrivera]

Yes hurry up

[captc07]

Sass and I are looking forward to it...might even lay down a side wager between the two of us!

[Trump]

eww house divided i can see her now a little xtra mag wont hurt anything muhahahah dumps bottle of tech m in. well maybe not but you never know .....

oh and this should be a fun contest.

[Masedaddy]

So what type of Zoas are we going to get? I would love to get something unusual but a known fast grower... Anyone know of a good one? Then we gotta decide where we are going to order it from......

[PL-Reef]

I'm so in!

[EvilMel]

Mel, off-topic but what do you do in your lab?


Hi Leslie, sorry I'm days late responding. Lately (last 10 years), I genetically engineered yeast to produce bioluminescence when they detect chemicals that mimic human hormones. Previous to that I studied the movement of transgenic plant genes up the food chain (into bats). Previous to that I studied the way that iron/nutrients affect bacteria and Cyanobacteria/other phytoplankton in marine systems, especially the open ocean.

On topic: do we know about when we are starting this? For how long do we intend to run it? I missed some posts on it probably.

[triggreef]

Previous to that I studied the way that iron/nutrients affect bacteria and Cyanobacteria

<-- Very interested in that.

Is this still going to happen? Was I supposed to send money somewhere? Is it going to be happening at this next meeting?

[Chriskid]

biggish hasn't started yet. I think we are waiting for west coast to get thru the holidays. I'll check

[BfishLpond78]

Hello Everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a good holiday and a glorious New Year…I know I did!

Hopefully you all have no forgotten about this thread or idea, but it still going to happen. Here are the rest of the details now that we seem to have a good idea on the number of folks who plan on participating according to the poll…WOAH!!!! …39 people!!!

Ok, for those of you who wish to participate, please make a payment to the CTARS pay pal which is membership.ctars@gmail.com I will get a notification and keep a list of who has paid. Please make sure you are member in good standing. If you don’t have a paypal account please message me and I will cover you for now and we can square up at the meeting, but please be certain you are participating.

We will be distributing the frags out at the January meeting. Once corals are distributed I will set up a separate thread so we can have an official thread to track everything and keep our pictures all squared away.

We will be collecting money up January 14th to get the $5.00 into the paypal account or messaging me, that way we have time to get the frags cut and healed before delivery.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

[captc07]

Has a type of zoa been picked yet? I'm in, just curious to know what was chosen.

[triggreef]

Hello Everyone!!!

I hope everyone had a good holiday and a glorious New Year…I know I did!

Hopefully you all have no forgotten about this thread or idea, but it still going to happen. Here are the rest of the details now that we seem to have a good idea on the number of folks who plan on participating according to the poll…WOAH!!!! …39 people!!!

Ok, for those of you who wish to participate, please make a payment to the CTARS pay pal which is membership.ctars@gmail.com I will get a notification and keep a list of who has paid. Please make sure you are member in good standing. If you don’t have a paypal account please message me and I will cover you for now and we can square up at the meeting, but please be certain you are participating.

We will be distributing the frags out at the January meeting. Once corals are distributed I will set up a separate thread so we can have an official thread to track everything and keep our pictures all squared away.

We will be collecting money up January 14th to get the $5.00 into the paypal account or messaging me, that way we have time to get the frags cut and healed before delivery.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Mike you should probably make a sticky with the new info on paying etc I'm sure a lot of people might miss this! Just a suggestion.

Can I pay my dues in the same payment? I think its time to re-up.

[BfishLpond78]

Has a type of zoa been picked yet? I'm in, just curious to know what was chosen.

Nuclear Greens will be used for this competition

Mike you should probably make a sticky with the new info on paying etc I'm sure a lot of people might miss this! Just a suggestion.

Can I pay my dues in the same payment? I think its time to re-up.

I was going to have the Mods sticky the actual growout thread, but I don't see any harm and doing this also. Mods if you would please sticky this I would appreciate it.

Yes, I'm pretty sure you can pay both the Dues and the Competition in the same payment.

[Blitzie]

Payment made

[BfishLpond78]

$5.00 payment received from:

rjmurd
Blitzie

Please make Paypal Payment to: membership.ctars@gmail.com

[frankyrivera]

Just paid

[BfishLpond78]

Just paid

Got it sir

[LeslieP]

Just paid my CTARS annual membership - still in negotiations for getting the time to come to the meeting so I haven't paid for this yet

[BfishLpond78]

I got it Leslie. If you know any fellow reefers that live close to you and are going to the meeting you can have them pick it up for you.

[LeslieP]

That will be my fall back - I'd really like to go to the meeting, sounds like a good topic. I have to confirm my son's basketball schedule

[triggreef]

Paid my dues and the grow out fee. Thanks for arranging this whole thing Mike.

[BfishLpond78]

Paid my dues and the grow out fee. Thanks for arranging this whole thing Mike.


Got it Dave.

[BfishLpond78]

$5.00 payment received from:

rjmurd
Blitzie
FrankyRivera
TriggReef

Please make Paypal Payment to: membership.ctars@gmail.com


Come on folks!!! We had over 40 people vote...hope there is still interest to do this. I'm going to need a head count soon so I know how many frags I need to make!!!

[BfishLpond78]

Just got done speaking with John from Boston Aqua Farms and he has decided to sponsor us in this competition and is sending me the frag plugs and glue to make this happen!

Thanks so much Boston Aqua Farms for the support!!!

[frankyrivera]

Nice

[BfishLpond78]

$5.00 payment received from:



rjmurd

Blitzie

FrankyRivera

TriggReef
Vaiodude



Please make Paypal Payment to: membership.ctars@gmail.com

[Chriskid]

Just got done speaking with John from Boston Aqua Farms and he has decided to sponsor us in this competition and is sending me the frag plugs and glue to make this happen!

Thanks so much Boston Aqua Farms for the support!!!

this is great, I must say this early in the year I am very excited to see all who are trying to help us in making this a wonderful year.

you all know who you are:-)

Mike you know I'm in , my payment at the meeting

[Trump]

I will be doing both(dues and CGC) at the meeting please count me in for this.:celeb3:

[BfishLpond78]

You got it Trump. I have you marked down.

[Masedaddy]

Just sent in my payment

[suicideissleep]

I will join and pay bothat the meeting so 25 total

[SteelerMike]

Just sent payment for myself, CountryBob and Semperfi58 (Bob sr)

[BfishLpond78]

$5.00 payment received from:



rjmurd
Blitzie
FrankyRivera
TriggReef
Vaiodude
CountryBob
SteelerMike
Semperfi58
MaseDaddy
LeslieP

Will Pay at Meeting:


ChrisKid
Trump
Suicideissleep


Please make Paypal Payment to: membership.ctars@gmail.com

If I missed someone please let me know!

[LeslieP]

Payment just sent!!

[BfishLpond78]

Payment just sent!!

Got it Leslie!

[sassAwrasse]

Capt and I will pay $5/each at the meeting.

[BfishLpond78]

You got it Sass

[RossTheReefer]

Sent. :)

[Nick12]

Can you count me in ill pay at the meeting.

[shayna123]

Please count me in. I will paypal you the $. Thanks!

[BfishLpond78]

Updated List!!! It's getting big!!!

rjmurd
Blitzie
FrankyRivera
TriggReef
Vaiodude
ChrisKid
BfishLpond78
Trump
Masedaddy
Suicideissleep
CountryBob
SteelerMike
Semperfi58
LeslieP
SassAwrasse
CapCT07
Nick12
Pdm2476
Shayna123

[Chriskid]

Emessier told me he is in. if he doesn't pay most of us knows where he lives.....lol

[emessier]

I am in will pay at the meeting

[LeslieP]

Suicideissleep, since I'm coming up, do you want those screen tops that go with that 75 you got from me?

[Paulywalnuts]

Yo I hope I got enough palys for all you peps!!! Lol

[RossTheReefer]

Updated List!!! It's getting big!!!

rjmurd
Blitzie
FrankyRivera
TriggReef
Vaiodude
ChrisKid
BfishLpond78
Trump
Masedaddy
Suicideissleep
CountryBob
SteelerMike
Semperfi58
LeslieP
SassAwrasse
CapCT07
Nick12
Pdm2476
Shayna123

You didnt get mine?

[BfishLpond78]

I sent you a PM Ross, did you get it? Can you please send me the confirmation Email from PayPal.

[suicideissleep]

Suicideissleep, since I'm coming up, do you want those screen tops that go with that 75 you got from me?

Yes plz and you can see the tank up in action

[LeslieP]

Looking forward to it! And I'll bring the tops.

[BfishLpond78]

Updated List!!!

rjmurd
Blitzie
FrankyRivera
TriggReef
Vaiodude
ChrisKid
BfishLpond78
Trump
Masedaddy
Suicideissleep
CountryBob
SteelerMike
Semperfi58
LeslieP
SassAwrasse
CapCT07
Nick12
Pdm2476
Shayna123
Emessier

If you have paid and don't see your name on this list please PM and I will get it fixed for you. You have until tomorrow to PayPal me or let me know that you will pay at the meeting!


Thanks Everyone!!!

[Chriskid]

can i get the biggest one.? .......lol

[BfishLpond78]

can i get the biggest one.? .......lol

Lol...I cut all the frags up the other day, they are all on a nice 2 inch round flat growout disk. All frags are more than one polyp...it was very hard for me to get them off the rock so they are ranging in size from 2-5 polyps.

I am waiting on one PM from shayna just to confirm something and I will post the final list for this competition.

SIGN UPS FOR THIS CONTEST ARE CLOSED

I have backed out of this contest since the zoas we orginally were going to go with, we didn't have anough since we had so much participation! So I cut up the Nuclear Deaths I had gotten from Jason Fox at the last CMAC.

I have attached a picture of them.

[rjmurd]

Ha, even if I lose which I probably will, I get a frag for 5 bucks. Great idea and lots of fun, thanks for doing this.

[BfishLpond78]

That's what it is all about sir!!!

[EvilMel]

Dude, if you want to be in the contest, I can back out. It's really not a problem at all.

[captc07]

Mike if you want in Nichole and I will share a frag. It's not a big deal at all.

[BfishLpond78]

Lol, it's ok guys. The reason I am backing out is that these are my palys, they grow well for me in my tank it wouldn't be fair as they have already adjusted to my tank parameters. But I have plenty of frags for all who are participating

I may keep a frag just got fun.

[Chriskid]

Lol, it's ok guys. The reason I am backing out is that these are my palys, they grow well for me in my tank it wouldn't be fair as they have already adjusted to my tank parameters. But I have plenty of frags for all who are participating

I may keep a frag just got fun.

This isn't right...... I wanted to bust on you.. I think you should play anyway. Just my .02 cents.

[BfishLpond78]

Bust on me...I just wanna give people a chance!

I'm still gonna play sir. Don't you worry. I made 27 frags just in case some didn't make it. 2 have fallen off so I have 25. I believe there are 20 people participating.

But don't you worry Chris...I grow these babies well in my tank. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/18/a2ytyzu7.jpg

[Chriskid]

Lol , I'm all about the fun. It's not my fault yours fell off the plug already..... Lmao

[BfishLpond78]

Good thing I have about 500 more that I can use!!!

[suicideissleep]

Sadly I won't be able to make it to this meeting :(

[BfishLpond78]

Can anyone pick up for Ron? I also believe he was picking up for someone as well

[Blitzie]

Mike can I pickup on Monday

[suicideissleep]

Can anyone pick up for Ron? I also believe he was picking up for someone as well

I think I was just dropping off the stuff for you

[LeslieP]

Ron, I brought the screen tops and they are in the stand of the 75. It looks great! Love the rockwork.

[shayna123]

When does this start? Did I miss the pick-up at last nights meeting, I was a little late?

[frankyrivera]

When does this start? Did I miss the pick-up at last nights meeting, I was a little late?

I talked to mike and he said it was either the mccosker or the contest plug, so I took your plug...you wanna trade lol. Just kidding! They were handing them out towards the end of the meeting by the left front corner of the stage

[phillrodrigo]

He was yelling for everyone to come get them multiple times. It was while they were selling the raffle tickets. Then I believe he gave the rest away or sold them. Not really sure

[BfishLpond78]

He was yelling for everyone to come get them multiple times. It was while they were selling the raffle tickets. Then I believe he gave the rest away or sold them. Not really sure

I opened them up to other folks at the meeting who wanted to get in on the competition, none were sold for profit.

I have already made arrangements with Shayna to get her the frag.

[frankyrivera]

I opened them up to other folks at the meeting who wanted to get in on the competition, none were sold for profit.

I have already made arrangements with Shayna to get her the frag.

So she agreed to take my plug in exchange for the mck....lol