Growth contest

Hello All!

Me and another member have been tossing around the idea of having a contest. The winner getting a little somethin-somethin special.

What sort of contest? Well, a growth contest! once a month, the people entering this contest sends in a picture of growth of their coral. The details have yet to be fully worked out. I am posting this to see what sort of general interest there is in a contest such as this.

The hangups I see happening is we all would have to start at the same time with the same size frag of the same coral. So that may get a little tricky. Or just general overall growth of the tank for a period of time.

And for the prize?

Half of this beast:



A mini-maxi anem (Stichodactyla tapetum) (I'll be fragging it in a week or two, as its just giant) And if not, I will find something else that will make people happy. Like an acan frag. >.<

I would LOVE a mini maxi nem

If only you had came up with this when I moved last. My birdsnest has grown from a large marble to a softball and been chopped up multiple times over the course of the year to control growth...lol.

I would jump in on this if you wanted me to. How many months are you looking for pics? Any restrictions on what coral or what type of coral?

This does get hard for the fact of some tanks are designed around LPS and others around SPS. Then there are the softies that grow like mad... Hard unless it's a controlled environment. I guess the most fair would be to do either full tank growth or go for a few different specific corals in each tank (1 SPS, 1 Zoa, 1 LPS, 1 softie). Pick 3 of the 4 or something...

Let me know your thoughts.

I was really thinking full tank growth, but that may be hard to 'judge' overall. And I know that mini-maxi's will go like hotcakes around here, I don't think many of us have them yet.

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A few months. Maybe the swap would be the best time to give it to the winner. Sooooo that's 6 months!

it would be hard to judge. There would have to be outside person who did not enter who was not influenced... Either that or give each person who enters a vote but they HAVE to vote for someone else's tank... no idea.

Well, since I am giving away the animal, I could be a judge. But I'd want rulers involved, lol

Since I dont have a tank anymore I could judge??? Just a thought.. As long there is not to much involved....LOL

Well, see? two judges now!

If you go the coral route, I think it would have to be a coral that can from a third person and not from a coral that is from someones tank that is participating in the contest. That way the coral isn't used to the tank.

That is a concern/point. But as pointed out earlier in the thread... some people have softy tanks, some have sps, some have lps. So if we got a frag of SPS and cut it all up equally-the people with the softy and lps tanks automatically fail. So not truly fair.

You can do zoas

This type of contest is hard. It almost needs to be an LPS, Zoa, and SPS coral to really get a good average of growth between species. I know acans thrive in some people's tanks but I have yet to keep them alive. My zoas seem to explode and SPS is a slower grower no matter what, except for my birdsnest.

hmmm... Zoanthids are promising.

I could frag up my purple deaths, but then we'd be limited to how many people could enter as I have a limited amount of them. I do have some 'ugly' orange and green ones I could frag up too, but again limited in number. hmmm. Well, lets see what others think too

I would go for a purple death frag

start with a single polyp and see how they go type of thing?

yeah. But I only have 8 polyps so far. >.> They're reallly slow growing in my tank compared to the other zoanthids

Ohohoh, I have an idea.

Everyone get a 2 gallon tank. And raise mojanos! Whoever can get the most wins?