Aquacultured SPS - Grafted, Rare, High End... All Home Grown

[gws3]

My package came in today and man was I blown away by the size and beauty of the frags. The corals were super healthy and the polyps popped out almost immediately. I would highly recommend

Thanks so much for posting feedback!

 

[thereefingspider]

Hey, no worries, I don't think it's a stupid question nor does it derail the thread.

Some grafted pieces I purchased with grafting. These include RRC Rainbow Splice, my OG grafted piece (it was a frag from a no name imported piece).

Others have developed grafting in my system without my direct intervention. These include Spliced Nerds, Pink Caddy Splice, Red Caddy Splice, as well as others.

I have tried to develop grafting on certain pieces without success. Once I took a bunch of frags of all green RRC Rainbow Splice and mounted each one next to another millepora frag to see if the GFP would spread. I tried with 5 or 6 different milles. None of them picked up the grafting. Typically the green Rainbow Splice frags just encrusted over the other milles.

So, I can't tell you what the mechanism that causes the grafting to spread is. I suspect the more grafted pieces you have in a system, the more likely it is to spread to other corals. I've been reefing for ~18 years and never had pieces develop grafting before I introduced grafted pieces. Now that I have a lot of grafted pieces it seems that every few months I find something new with a tiny bit of GFP on it.

That is phenomenal. You are doing something exceptional well.