Propagation - fish & corals

Hello Everyone!

My name is Wes from the Dallas/Fort Worth area and I have been reefing for just over 5 years now. About a year into it the bug hit me, who would have thought right?! Anyways, I started with a 55 gallon tank my friend gave me and my girlfriend Maria. Since then I have had a 3, 8, 28, 33, 40, 90, and a 210 gallon tank at some point - the 210 is currently my main reef tank. Things never end though and since Maria has a love for all that saltwater has to offer the madness ...

I have been watching this coral for a few days now. I have a snail that I got in a few weeks ago, and it has all these spikes all around it's shell. It looks like a star. So, this one snail has been hanging out on the coral. I would move the snail, and then later it would be back. It has been going on now for a few days.

I don't know if the snail has anything to do with this, I just thought I would mention that. So night before last, I was checking out the coral pretty hard, and I ...

On March 13th MASM hosted the first Breeder's Workshop at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, MI.

It was our intent to bring together two well known breeders for a full afternoon of captive breeding information and discussion.

A little background... last fall MASM started putting together the Marine Breeding Initiative, or MBI, to promote captive breeding and to help organize captive breeding information. More information about the MBI can be found ...

This was all driven by Melevs thread on breeding phyto

The History
Pods
We started breeding in our bio 29 gal that we installed a sump and fuge on (about 50gal of water). Every month we added 1 to 2 bottles of pods that we bought from "somewhere". We found that as long as we added phyto, the fuge was always alive.

When we upgraded to the 120gal with 300gal of water, we broken off some of the pods and seeded the system for about 4 months allowing

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For those who have been browsing the blogs you may have run across my article on breeding marine ornamentals at home. If you missed it, click below to get filled in.

http://www.reefaddicts.com/entry.php...bred-happiness

There have been some recent developments regarding what is left of my Dragonfaced Pipefish foursome, now a twosome. It is unfortunate that they are not taking to anything but BBS but I am still working on that issue. In any case the two that are ...