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Track Your Coral’s Growth and Lineage with Reef Lines

Chicago reef aquarist  and GBD reader, Richie Vos has recently launched Reef Lines, a website that has a twist unlike any other. Like the name subtly suggests, Reef Lines allows reefers to keep track of where there coral came from and who they trade them with. Not only will this squash some of  the …my [...]

Chicago reef aquarist  and GBD reader, Richie Vos has recently launched Reef Lines, a website that has a twist unlike any other. Like the name subtly suggests, Reef Lines allows reefers to keep track of where there coral came from and who they trade them with. Not only will this squash some of  the …my L.E. Rainbow VOoDoO Acro  has true lineage nonesense, it supports captive propagation and allows us to see how the same same strain of coral looks in different aquarium conditions. Here’s the quick rundown from their about page:

So in a nutshell, simplifying those processes is the core of ReefLines. ReefLines is meant to:

  • help you easily track what’s going on with your livestock
  • see what’s going on with other people’s livestock
  • drill into how the source colonies or parents of your livestock is doing (see your coral and its lineage all together)

Hats off to Richie for his unique website concept and for supporting aquacultured corals.

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  • @joel, that's definitely the dark side of lineages, but I'd definitely argue that's not the only side.

    I think an example of a great side of seeing other corals in your lineage is looking at how your coral is doing in other conditions. For example, I have this once green branching coral I bought at a fragfest ealier this year http://reeflines.com/users/richievos/corals/10. It was an awesome dark green when I got it, and as my pics show, it's much larger now, but it's this really weird washed out almost gray color. I wish I had kept the contact info for that fragger, since I'd love to see how his parent colony is doing in his tank, and how the other frags he had of it are doing.

    And also, if I could track down his coral I'd have a better id on that coral, and would know if his was aquacultured as well (he got it as a frag) or if it came straight from the ocean.

    That's the sort of thing I started building ReefLines for, being able to see how my stuff's done over time, and hopefully eventually be able to get some more real-world info on what is in my tank, outside of the conditions I've been putting my corals through.
  • joel
    I like the day when people go back to enjoying corals because they like the way they look. Rather than mine is from "so and so" so neaner neaner mine has a fancy 5 word name!
  • btaylor66
    I like the idea. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.
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