Growth contest

Never had a mojano, don't want one...lol

I think overall growth would be good enough to judge, just compare shots month to month or whatever and whoever has the most wins?

There should definitely be more than one judge. I wouldn't put that on one person. I guess overall growth seems a good way to handle it and the judges could take into consideration if one person keeps easier growing corals than another.

I think it would be a more fun "launch" to this project if we had a meeting and all who were interested took home the same piece of coral to grow but can't totally imagine how that would work due to already mentioned obstacles. If we had categories and you could enter the SPS, LPS, softie or all three, maybe we could come up with a different price for each category? I'd be willing to put up a prize too.

I bet we could come up with different prizes for each. So when's our next meetin? (ha!)

I know right!? Meetings seem rare these days.

I have a candy cane colony that could be cut into certain number of heads for the LPS category. And, I have orange cap to donate for the SPS category. Oh....and I have toadstools for the softies category. On prizes, we may need to confer. I think having to come to a meeting to enter is a more fair way to decide who can participate too rather than having entrants from the other side of the country. And, we get the bonus of encouraging meeting attendance. I like the idea of it ending at swap time. I hope to set a date for that within the next week. (My turn to do a water change at the HSC.)

Hey, I'll come to the water change too... see your pm's. Just tell me when We can discuss then.

Got to thinking and zoanthids are probably a better softie for a contest. I may not have enough toadstool. I just have 2 small ones at the moment. The HSC has a huge one I could cut pieces off of but I don't think they'd want me to.

its such a nice, big, pretty colony

You can run into issues of chemical warfare for those with SPS tanks by adding a toadstool... Many leathers give off a chemical that can inhibit SPS growth unless carbon is used to neutralize it...

Here I finally toned down my supplements because I have Massive corals growth in my tank as it is that's the last thing i need to do is get into a growth contest...LOL
I can hardly get rid of my growth stock as it is.

I forgot to mention-got a second mini maxi. So the winner will beable to choose from the one pictured, or green and light green and white. >.<

Cutting tomorrow! wish me luck

If you guys want something different for the lps I have a favia that grows like crazy. Cyphestrea too but not sure if you want to consider that an lps or sps, I never know. Or could maybe frag a chalice.