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Propagating corals

scuba71

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Just curious do people propagate proactively these days or let nature take it's course and wait it out. How was your success rate for each method? I would love to work on a DBTC, but I am afraid of not being successful. My intention to propagate is not for monetary/profit reasons, but mainly accelerating DBTC. Any advise/suggestions/comments/concerns?
 
Just curious do people propagate proactively these days or let nature take it's course and wait it out. How was your success rate for each method? I would love to work on a DBTC, but I am afraid of not being successful. My intention to propagate is not for monetary/profit reasons, but mainly accelerating DBTC. Any advise/suggestions/comments/concerns?
This is a hard question to answer as it's too broad. I would say it depends on what corals you are trying to propagate. Each coral is unqiue and different. Some are far eaiser than others.

Meaning some anyone could propagate. While there are some that haven't been done successfully yet. Still others that people attempt but there are low success rates.

Also dbtc or better yet a frag swap is a great way to get easy to propagate coral. I would recommend trying leathers, or zoas as the easiest to grow out and frag.

If you have a specific type in mind mention it so that you could get feedback that's directed towards a specific type.

Some people do actively propagate I do with leathers and I have with mushrooms. I've seen videos of people doing it to expensive scolymia corals. (Most probably wouldn’t dream of taki g the chance of cutting such an expensive coral) others like nems can be cut in a way to make more. Yet feeding them directly can also make them split faster.

Beyond leathers or common type mushrooms or sps, I lean towards the natural method of letting them grow out.
 
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This is a hard question to answer as it's too broad. I would say it depends on what corals you are trying to propagate. Each coral is unqiue and different. Some are far eaiser than others.

Meaning some anyone could propagate. While there are some that haven't been done successfully yet. Still others that people attempt but there are low success rates.

Also dbtc is a great way to get easy to propagate coral. I would recommend trying leathers, or zoas as the easiest to grow out and frag.

If you have a specific type in mind mention it that you could get feedback that's directed towards a specific type.

Some people do actively propagate I do with leathers and I have with mushrooms. I've seen videos of people doing it to expensive scolymia corals. (Most probably wouldn’t dream of taki g the chance of cutting such an expensive coral) others like nems can be cut in a way to make more. Yet feeding them directly can also make them split faster.

Beyond leathers or common type mushrooms or sps, I lean towards the natural method of letting them grow out.
Really looking at SPS and LPS. For example. strawberry shortcake and rainbow Acans. I am curious if there some tips/tricks to help accelerate without compromising
 
Really looking at SPS and LPS. For example. strawberry shortcake and rainbow Acans. I am curious if there some tips/tricks to help accelerate without compromising
Acans direct feeding helps them grow faster, but no cheat code for them, some varriants of acans grow faster than other types. Tank farmed acans are what you want over wild ones if possible.


He's our bay area acan expert. Santa rosa if i'm not mistaken also he has a booth at cfm as well. He could definite get you some nice ones proven advice as well.

For high end sps stable conditions and time there is no magic potion to speed up sps. I hear that higher ph can help but equally important is just keeping the numbers stable sps is a major rabbit hole. Many thoughts and aproaches and what works for someone else maynot work for you. Again stability is key I think.

One of our sps gurus will probably give more detailed advice. So please don’t take me as any type of expert.
 
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Acans feeding is key

Acros… Everyone has a different way of growing acros

Some acros never stop branching and I’d expect those ones to do well fragged up. For example carduus never stops growing for me - every tip is a growth tip, and it branches before it encrusts. My ORA hawkins echinata also just grows without encrusting much

But others will stall for forever and just try to encrust when fragged

I think for those it depends
 
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