Wild Sps Colony Success

[brick-brothers]

How many of yall had success in keeping wild sps colonies? I bought about 7/8 colonies from a lfs a couple of months ago. Only 3 survive. After the color comes back and everything is going good, do you make up a name for that wild colony so you can sell frags? And how low did or would you start the asking price?

 

[homegrowncichlid]

I only had a couple of wild corals, well a few now that I feel about it. Some grew well, some were super slow, but I'm guessing its because I had to "guess" about what conditions they needed. They are all different and unique, but most of them didn't have any real value, since they were just tan/brown/yellowish. As for naming them, all you have is then the genus species. Of course its possible that you've got something SO good, that its worth giving a name to. You can call it Brick-brother's Special, to differentiate it from the generic wild type.
I could frag any of my wild type corals, but who would buy it? hmm.


Start with the standard price of $15 or $30, and if you sell out, raise the price, if it doesn't lower it till someone bites.


All of my wild type corals were hitch hikers on life rock, which I was able to target and grow out. Of course this was before my tank leak. Now I just have this one brownish/ pavona-like SPS, which I'm happy to have because it survived the transfer/cycling/etc.

 

[duke62]

You talking wild or maricultured?

 

[JBNY]

I've had good success with wild colonies. They are more temperamental than mari or aquacultured ones. But if they do well in your tank they using do well in other. But when you want to frag it, sure name it whatever you want, if it's super nice you should be able to get some money for them.

 

[mluz]

I had a few mari cultured colonies die, but I was having unnoticed alk swings. Since then I've been checking my alk frequently and added a dosing pump, did not have any other losses.