Just wondering

[650-IS350]

Personal reasons, now I'm curious. Can't wait to start hearing about these different subjects. And now I'm nervous about the one polyp theory. I've never had any melt on me yet (knock on wood). I have a few single polyp additions coming in tomorrow. Here's hoping there is no truth to it :O
IMO, without covering it yet. From my experiences, I've had pretty good experience with growing out single polyp frags. As long as they are received healthy, dipped, no predators or irritants, acclimated properly, good to strong lighting and indirect flow. you should be good. but I'll cover it more on future topics.

Folks, keep on pouring ideas. Your opinions and ideas can help us greatly here and you don't have to be a long time contribute r, expert or serious collector to give ideas. Were striving to make this Z's and Ps forum a great place to visit, to become very informative and wealth of info for Z's and P's folks alike.

 

[tampasnooker]

I just mentioned this in scopustang's new thread but why not add taxonomy to your list. zoa's, palys, protopalys, parazoa's, PE type...
Break them down by species, which may help with placement issues - light and current intensity/type. Then we can get back to finding fun names for new morphs...

Great work to all who are helping to organize all the ideas in these forums into more detailed and complete threads.

 

[Wy Renegade]

I just mentioned this in scopustang's new thread but why not add taxonomy to your list. zoa's, palys, protopalys, parazoa's, PE type...
Break them down by species, which may help with placement issues - light and current intensity/type. Then we can get back to finding fun names for new morphs...

Great work to all who are helping to organize all the ideas in these forums into more detailed and complete threads.

We'll try and work up something on the taxonomy, however based on my research into the topic over the past few months, there are very few zoas, palys, or protopalys that have been identified all the way down to species. I would venture to guess based on what I've found that species wise there are less than a dozen polyps (not talking trade names) commonly found in the hobby that can be positively IDed as far a species; Z. giganticus, P. grandis, P. vestilus are the three that easily come to mind, beyond that you are talking Zoanthus spp. or Protopalythoa spp. With coral taxonimist arguing over the proper placement of palys into protopalythoa or palythoa its rather hard for the average hobbiest to determine proper taxonomic placement. That said, I think we can cover the genuses fairly well. See what we can do.

 

[ddwbeagles]

BTW - Charles and Mr. Tang, thank you both as Forum Pros for doing this. Obviously you two have a huge wealth of knowledge I/we can certainly benifit from. Great list of topics already selected and I'm sure there is more to come. I look forward to the education! If I can help in anyway on my end let me know. For example, if you need cheap "subject material", I've got several very large/healthy (el' cheapo) colonies that I can donate to whatever testing you'd like (i.e. dips, differing water parameters, fragging techniques, etc...). They're yours for the asking/shipping on me. Thanks again!

David W.

 

[ddwbeagles]

Oh - I'll add a few more easy agenda topics. Would love to see the water parameters on each of your tanks to including lighting specs. My guess is there are a bit different, but should they be real close to each other, yet significantly different than my own, I would probably rethink my own preferences.

Next and this may of already been covered. We already have "dipping & the various chemicals/treatments" on the list above. I would love to see, hear or know about the ideal quarentine set-up. I'm going to embarress myself slightly, but have a lot of questions concerning what I can do to effectively quarentine new arrivals, but make it user friendly (i.e. not a completely different and isolated tank). I'm rambling now, but if a small frag tank or 10G was plumbed into your sump that is already servicing your MD, would or could it still be suitable for quarentine? Is this do'able with some sort of filtering media between the two? What are the "best practices" out there verses a separate/isolated tank? No need to reinvent the wheel on my end.

 

[650-IS350]

Thanks David for the offer, appreciate it... but I think in the times of my trial and tribulations with Z's and Ps, I wouldn't need anymore subjects. I've gone through a lot of varieties, LOL

 

[ReeferRob]

I just mentioned this in scopustang's new thread but why not add taxonomy to your list. zoa's, palys, protopalys, parazoa's, PE type...
Break them down by species, which may help with placement issues - light and current intensity/type. Then we can get back to finding fun names for new morphs...

Great work to all who are helping to organize all the ideas in these forums into more detailed and complete threads.

The lattest issue of Coral Magazine with a killer write up by Colin Foord of Coralmorphologic.com may help you with this one!

 

[Wy Renegade]

BTW - Charles and Mr. Tang, thank you both as Forum Pros for doing this. Obviously you two have a huge wealth of knowledge I/we can certainly benifit from. Great list of topics already selected and I'm sure there is more to come. I look forward to the education! If I can help in anyway on my end let me know. For example, if you need cheap "subject material", I've got several very large/healthy (el' cheapo) colonies that I can donate to whatever testing you'd like (i.e. dips, differing water parameters, fragging techniques, etc...). They're yours for the asking/shipping on me. Thanks again!

David W.

Very generous offer there David, and as Charles said thank you! We will keep it in mind, but hopefully we won't have to take you up on it. BTW, for those who don't know, Mr. Tang = Randy.

Oh - I'll add a few more easy agenda topics. Would love to see the water parameters on each of your tanks to including lighting specs. My guess is there are a bit different, but should they be real close to each other, yet significantly different than my own, I would probably rethink my own preferences.

Next and this may of already been covered. We already have "dipping & the various chemicals/treatments" on the list above. I would love to see, hear or know about the ideal quarentine set-up. I'm going to embarress myself slightly, but have a lot of questions concerning what I can do to effectively quarentine new arrivals, but make it user friendly (i.e. not a completely different and isolated tank). I'm rambling now, but if a small frag tank or 10G was plumbed into your sump that is already servicing your MD, would or could it still be suitable for quarentine? Is this do'able with some sort of filtering media between the two? What are the "best practices" out there verses a separate/isolated tank? No need to reinvent the wheel on my end.

Charles suggested a bit ago writing up a small biography thread to formally introduce ourselves and our tanks/systems to the community - and we've been working to put that together, so hopefully that will answer some of those questions for you. On the idea of the quarentine tank, my initial thought is not too likely depending on what you're quantining against - if you're medicating while quarantining, you don't want the meds getting into your main system - but it is a possible idea for further investigation.

 

[650-IS350]

Charles suggested a bit ago writing up a small biography thread to formally introduce ourselves and our tanks/systems to the community - and we've been working to put that together

CO-SIGN, I've been planning this for a while but just didn't have time to fully write everything up, put my thoughts together. This will be my first real thread then the others will follow suit.

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