FranklinDattein
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I wanted to share an unexpected, but somewhat successful experiment, with promoting Green protein infection in stony corals.
I have been trying to graft corals for as long as I can remember, with no success. Not satisfied, I reached out to a couple of reefing friends that had been successful and we starting brainstorming and the topic of Green Protein Infection (GPI) came up. We laughed in disbelief at the idea, I said I was going to try, as a bit of sarcasm and never got to it. Then, I catch myself fragging a Green Pocci, while listening to an episode of Reef Therapy from @Reef Builders , and Jake talked about corals getting GPI from fragging that same coral.
It was the encouragement I needed to pull the camera and continue the joke, this time in video format. I sent the video to a couple of friends and we had another laugh.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and guess what? Yes, it worked! Well, the injections didn't work and the acro is still brown, but there were two frags of Red montipora Capricornis where it did.
I haven't injected these montis, nor any other coral besides the acro in the video, but clearly the montis were able to take the protein in.
I am very excited to experiment more with it and I am sure a some of you will too. Let me know if you try and make any progress.
I have been trying to graft corals for as long as I can remember, with no success. Not satisfied, I reached out to a couple of reefing friends that had been successful and we starting brainstorming and the topic of Green Protein Infection (GPI) came up. We laughed in disbelief at the idea, I said I was going to try, as a bit of sarcasm and never got to it. Then, I catch myself fragging a Green Pocci, while listening to an episode of Reef Therapy from @Reef Builders , and Jake talked about corals getting GPI from fragging that same coral.
It was the encouragement I needed to pull the camera and continue the joke, this time in video format. I sent the video to a couple of friends and we had another laugh.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and guess what? Yes, it worked! Well, the injections didn't work and the acro is still brown, but there were two frags of Red montipora Capricornis where it did.
I haven't injected these montis, nor any other coral besides the acro in the video, but clearly the montis were able to take the protein in.
I am very excited to experiment more with it and I am sure a some of you will too. Let me know if you try and make any progress.
