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UPDATE: @MichaelB picked up everything. He says he'll bring most of the corals (and live rock) to the upcoming frag swap. Thanks and I hope they all do well in your tanks!

Hi everyone,

Professor John Pringle at Stanford University is retiring, and his lab is shutting down. That means we need to get rid of all our corals, fish, and aquarium equipment. Everything is free, and the living things obviously have to go first. I don't have a complete list of all the corals we have and don't know their trade names, but I'm posting some pictures and listing the names of things I know. For now I'm just posting the living things. Equipment will come after the living things are gone.

Fish:
  • Tomato clownfish, Amphiprion frenatus. Unknown age. Certainly female by now, ~4" long.
  • Damselfish, maybe Amblyglyphidodon ternatensis. Unknown age. Female (lays eggs). ~4" long.
Corals:
Note that the colors are pretty washed out under our metal halides, but they become much more intense when kept under LEDs in my personal aquarium.
  • Montipora capricornis, red/orange. 2"-6" in diameter.
  • Montipora sp., encrusting, "Reverse Superman" coloration with pink coenosarc and polyps that are half brownish and half topped with purple/blue tips. 2"-4" in diameter.
  • Montipora spongodes (I think...), green coenosarc with brown polyps. 1"-9" in diameter. This one grows very rapidly in our tanks.
  • Pavona decussata, brown potato chip coral. 2"-5" in diameter. Extremely hardy, highly aggressive, and self-fragging.
  • Acropora sp., fine branches, brown coenosarc, green polyps. 1.5"-5+" long. Fragile, rapidly growing, but only under metal halides. Otherwise it barely grows at all.
  • Seriatopora hystrix (I think...), pink coenosarc with brown polyps. 2"-5" in diameter.
  • Turbinaria frondens (I think...), pink/orange coenosarc and polyps. 8" in diameter. Some dead spots. Not a good grower in our aquarium.
  • Lobophytum sp., Devil's Hand leather coral. Pink/grey. Closed in the picture, but 3"-5" in diameter when open. Easy and fast-growing.
  • Sarcophyton sp., Toadstool leather coral. Pink/grey. Mostly closed in picture, but 1"-3" in diameter when open. Easy and fast-growing.
  • Discosoma sp., bright blue, possibly D. cerula. 0.5"-2" in diameter. Not too many of these, as they don't like the metal halides.
  • A variety of zoas/palys, the names of which I don't know.
Pick up is on the 3rd floor of the Lane Building (room L308) in the Stanford Medical Campus. Here's a google maps link. You can park in the Pasteur Visitor's Garage. Bring adequate containers for the animals you want!

DM me if you're interested. Note that I will be out of town June 22-July 2, so you probably can't pick anything up then. Everything will be first come, first served, and I will delete things from this post as they go. Also note that it may take some lead time to catch the fish, especially if most of the coral is still in the tank, so I'll need a few days notice if you want the fish.

Thanks,
Gabe

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The sps type corals
They came in larger chunks not exactly like original pictures posted above as many where broken up during tear down.
I spent a few hours breaking them down into chunky frags. There are like 4/5 different types of corals in the black tote.

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Various leather corals. Some type of toadstool, and my best guess is possibly a singularia varriant.

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The live rock, many of them have leather corals attached. 1-2 has zoas or Palythoas most likely. I can't determine their type. I will rigg up a light over the corals tomorrow. The system they were in used 100% white metal halides, they aren't bleached or anything they are more pastel in color do to absence of full spectrum lighting. They are very healthy from my observation. I would probably start any of these frags lower in the tank to get them more use to intense full spectrum lighting.

I will bring them to the swap for whoever wants some.


This system I was told was at least 10years old. During the break down and even mini fragging session I had, I saw no pests, other than the typical vermatids and not crazy amounts. No bristles, asterinas etc. This was a extremely clean tank given it's age.

If anyone wants live rock feel free to reach I will bring to the swap bring your bucket or container.

**Unless someone specific requests the 2 rocks I only see them on 2 rocks) with possibly Palythoa or zoas I most likely won't bring those given I have no idea what they are. And don’t plan to put them in my tank to find out lol. With the unknown risk levels of palytoxins, I wouldn't want put someone uninformed at risk if they just grabbed those at the swap. If you want those specific two rocks I wanna make sure you know what palytoxins are and you have some understanding of the risk and precautions needed.

There is one rock that has lots of small leathers 2 types on it. That would probably be a good addtion to a soft tank.

@gaberosenfield thanks alot for reaching out to the club, I'm sure the members will enjoy giving these new homes.
 
MichaelB said:
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The sps type corals
They came in larger chunks not exactly like original pictures posted above as many where broken up during tear down.
I spent a few hours breaking them down into chunky frags. There are like 4/5 different types of corals in the black tote.

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Various leather corals. Some type of toadstool, and my best guess is possibly a singularia varriant.

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The live rock, many of them have leather corals attached. 1-2 has zoas or Palythoas most likely. I can't determine their type. I will rigg up a light over the corals tomorrow. The system they were in used 100% white metal halides, they aren't bleached or anything they are more pastel in color do to absence of full spectrum lighting. They are very healthy from my observation. I would probably start any of these frags lower in the tank to get them more use to intense full spectrum lighting.

I will bring them to the swap for whoever wants some.


This system I was told was at least 10years old. During the break down and even mini fragging session I had, I saw no pests, other than the typical vermatids and not crazy amounts. No bristles, asterinas etc. This was a extremely clean tank given it's age.

If anyone wants live rock feel free to reach I will bring to the swap bring your bucket or container.

**Unless someone specific requests the 2 rocks I only see them on 2 rocks) with possibly Palythoa or zoas I most likely won't bring those given I have no idea what they are. And don’t plan to put them in my tank to find out lol. With the unknown risk levels of palytoxins, I wouldn't want put someone uninformed at risk if they just grabbed those at the swap. If you want those specific two rocks I wanna make sure you know what palytoxins are and you have some understanding of the risk and precautions needed.

There is one rock that has lots of small leathers 2 types on it. That would probably be a good addtion to a soft tank.

@gaberosenfield thanks alot for reaching out to the club, I'm sure the members will enjoy giving these new homes.
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I can take the rock if no one wants it. Put me on the back burner.
 
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