Comments on: Track Your Coral’s Growth and Lineage with Reef Lines

By: Tracking coral lineage - 3reef Forums

Tracking coral lineage - 3reef Forums — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:19:58 +0000

[...] coral lineage NIFTY new site launched Track Your Coral’s Growth and Lineage with Reef Lines | glassbox-design.com could def. help the coral gardeners out [...]

By: Richie Vos

Richie Vos — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:36:00 +0000

@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.

By: Richie Vos

Richie Vos — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:36:10 +0000

@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.

By: joel

joel — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:27:00 +0000

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!

By: joel

joel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:27:23 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:34:00 +0000

I like the idea. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.

By: ataylo13

ataylo13 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:34:53 +0000

I like the idea. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.