The Frag Files: Turbinaria --- Gallery Aquatica TV

[@Reefgrrl]

This was excellent! I also enjoyed seeing the update on the Dallas Acro and the mushrooms. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Reefgrrl thank you so much for watching! Hope your Shrooms are enjoying their new hospitals :)

[@braveheartreefer525]

Ania great to see you back. Will be interesting to see how the frags grow out great video

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Braveheart reefer 525 thanks! I’ve never made Turbinaria frags before of the cup species, will be interesting!
Ania

[@RookieReefer]

Good to see you back Ania, great video as always guys. See you this weekend!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you! I was lucky to have my mum come help babysit Archerfish so I could get my hands wet again!

[@Barnz1980]

Cool to see the growth difference on the acro's! I did feel a lil sorry for the cup turbinaria when you chopped it up 😢 I didn't realise that could be fragged! Will be interesting to see that in a future update 👌

[@StewartRocco]

Can’t wait for the results😎 The Dallas growth is amazing. Toss me one here in Texas🔆😎

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Rocco Tito we sent some over once to Unique Corals and Jake at ReefBuilders... hope it spreads!

[@StewartRocco]

Gallery Aquatica TV, Jake Adams has his studio In Colorado, I’ll keep,tuning in to your UA-cam channel 😉👍🏼

[@BahamaLlamaCoral]

Great video! Thank you Ania!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Bahama Llama Coral thank you so much for watching

[@bw2191]

Hey Ania, nice to see another informative video.👍

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thanks for watching!

[@jestronixhanderson9898]

Dallas are a freak of nature :) great tutorial. Love the passion you guys have behind your business.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Jestronix Handerson thank you for the kind words! Our friend Shane recently grew a Dallas frag In a bucket of seawater! Wonders never cease!!

[@seannielson7883]

You guys should do a tour of your frag systems

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Sean Nielson great idea! One day we will :)

[@jimstank7787]

Gelatinous. What a great word😉. Great video. Would love to see a tour? P.s would love to see England get Steve Smith out early doors too😏.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

I’ll get Ania to explain gelatinous to me, then I’ll explain the Steve Smith reference to her😂 Tour is not far off, we’ve just been waiting till after Reefstock frag show. Cam

[@sosmra]

Thank you for tutorials always good to know and learn in this hobby!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thanks so much for the encouraging comment :) Happy Reefing!
Ania

[@sosmra]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV 👏

[@Carlos23reef]

Awesome video love watching your channel 👍

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much!

[@benhowardbath]

Awesome work Ania!!!!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

ben howard bath thanks Ben!

[@volteface69]

Très intéressant, merci Anya !!! 👍👍👍

[@louisebrake1800]

love you guys! Your enthusiasm is infectious and your explanations are so easy to follow!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much! This comment has really made my day 👋
Ania

[@sunnygoold9449]

Awesome - great to see the progress - I never knew there was branching ones - so sick

[@natalbreefing5934]

Thanks for the education! How did you know my tank was looking for a little purple branching turbinaria...😜

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

NATAL B REEFING heronensis would look amazing in your setup!!

[@Mike__B]

I like that little floating tray you have with your corallimorphs, some sort of floating ring with a plastic pasta strainer zip tied to it?
Oh and I saw aiptasia in your Dallas acro frags... kill it with extreme prejudice!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Mike B hi,
That’s exactly right. It’s a plastic colander from a kitchen store with foam strapped underneath with zip ties to help it float. We bleach them regularly if they get algaefied 😊

[@MrMushroomish]

8:05 "you can use a spooonge or a little butthole" Lmao
I know she said bottle, but kinda sounds different

[@TattooedDancer91]

What a lovely tutorial, but also coral species. I've never seen those in my LFS', but I'll certainly keep an eye out. Are they difficult to keep? I imagine they might be like birdsnest in terms of demands? :)

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

TattooedDancer91 I don’t find them to be too demanding. They do appreciate full access to light and flow. Though the rarer one - Hero coral - we find is ok in lower light .
Also they all appreciate manual feeding

[@TattooedDancer91]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV thanks, I'm gonna try and get some :) Epic name for a coral!

[@marianamator4171]

😀

[@jonomufc7]

Just full of life this lady int she, has 2 be a weed smoker 😂. If i come oz, am checking this woman. Av a spliff 2gether 😂 😂 Great video keep it up, u guys do sick video's 👍🏾

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hilarious!

[@jonomufc7]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV 😂😋Top video's man, keep it up. Am learning abit from u guy's. 👊🏾

[@kurthunter8940]

Turbinaria wins my vote!
Love seeing that Dallas Acropora update too.
When is Ania’s next Frag Files video?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

She has another Frag Files in 2-3 weeks. Cam

[@kurthunter8940]

Gallery Aquatica TV thanks Cam. 2-3 weeks is a very long time.

[@dallasstorm8860]

What are the deciding factors for how much of the corals to frag? And how much to leave on the original corals?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Dallas Storm it varies each time, but we typically take small pieces here and there to maximise the aquacultured growth of the mother colony.
Depends a little on the purpose of the fragging. Sometimes fragging is to rescue a piece, of remove a boring pest. Sometimes it’s simply to share the genetics with certifications number of reefers on a waiting list. We still receive wild collected corals each week but some of the rarest and most special pieces have only come up once; those are the best ones to grow out to propagate and share.

[@dallasstorm8860]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Thanks! Very interesting

[@lsraelramirez7691]

Firts! Japi rifing

[@JohnArthurEcholsIV]

Where can I get those white holy bins the morphs were in?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

John Echols hi,
They are plastic colanders from a kitchen store we have attached styrofoam to the underside with zip ties

[@JohnArthurEcholsIV]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Cool thx! Great Video as usual

[@thornh2k]

I’ve been wanting to ask about those acros in the beginning of the video. They look so similar to the Green Slimer acro. Is it the same acro with a different name due to the geographical location? Thanks and sorry if you’ve answered this question before on your comments.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Mike Cizzle Reef Tanks it does look like the Bali green Slimer. But American reefers in the know who have visited us here in Australia have each said it’s different! We aren’t allowed to have corals from overseas so I’ve never seen one to compare. It has been genetically tested here over the years and no actual one extant Acropora species has actually been confirmed!
If you check out the Dallas frag files video I explain the story of the strain here and why it’s called Dallas.
Ania

[@mihaia6026]

@Gallery Aquatica What lights do you use in the frag tanks ?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

I think we use all the main brands that we sell. We have tanks running Radions, Hydras, Kessil and Illumagic. Cam

[@brianfinch2597]

What are you dosing in your frag systems? Awesome facility!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Brian Finch thank you! We use a bit of a range for foundation dosing - Continuum, Seachem and Red Sea; not every system has dosing pumps hooked up so we still have to manually dose and monitor the parameters regularly.
We use Coral Essentials Trace A, B and C according to Ca and KH consumption and their Concentrated Amino and Gro (Vitamin) formulas daily. We try to always maintain Magnesium at 3.1-3.4 ratio to Calcium. And high Potassium 420-450 ppm.
Ania

[@tobiwan4249]

Great vid! Love it! Do you have a link to the rock type plugs? I got some ages ago and can't remember what they are called or where I got them. And are you coming to MACNA?!?!? Toby

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Crypto Corals Gday Toby! If you are Toby my dog loving friend - I Miss you! Since having our son so close to the conference dates I had to accept MACNA in Florida would sadly have to be missed by me and enjoyed vicariously through social media avenues. I really hope to travel to US again soon. An achievement which I want to believe is not impossible.
The rock plugs are made here in Australia, by a business called Reef Aqua. Happy to send you some or maybe even there is a way I can get them flown over with a friend the next time I know they are heading to US. I found it fairly amusing that the frag plugs we bought from MACNA were consistently flagged as suspicious along the entire way we travelled home from Vegas 😆
Ania

[@tobiwan4249]

Gallery Aquatica TV that would be awesome either way. And I’m hoping to get “down under” before too terribly long and your shop is the top of my list! I’ll message you in regard to the plugs!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Crypto Corals no worries! He stopped producing them for ages but just got back into it so we have lots again. I like not only the look of them but they cut semi well - not too soft and not too hard :)

[@dallasstorm8860]

Which video has the follow up on the turbinaria? Thanks

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Dallas Storm Hi, and thanks so much for asking. We had to raid the Turbin frags as they were highly in demand to sell in store. Faster than we could get them filmed first with Adam. Our apologies. One of the heronensis just needing re-gluing as it might have been bumped etc but otherwise you’re going to just have to believe me that they turned out to be very successful. There are still a few of the less attractive ones in grow out but I would think filming them now would definitely make for some fairly average content.
Ania

[@dallasstorm8860]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV thanks!

[@jooooooooi]

Do you guys mix your own water, or use use ocean water? Hi from California!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Joey Pellicone hi
We use natural

[@jooooooooi]

Gallery Aquatica TV thanks! Really like your channel. I’m catching up!

[@fishstix1988]

Is both the cup kinda and branching kind considered LPS, or just one type?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

I would consider them all LPS however the terms LPS and SPS aren’t actually scientific terms so there is no correct answer. Cam

[@TattooedDancer91]

Ania, I want to try the sideways sausage with my Spathulata, that is acting up and only slowly encrusting. Should I do it as an experiment to kick start some growth hormones? :) kind regards

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

TattooedDancer91 hi! Thanks for the great question! I would certainly recommend to try the sideways sausages! Not sure if the research I based the theory on is published but the idea was based on a speech I heard at a conference from experiments performed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).

[@TattooedDancer91]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Great, thanks, I will then. Do you think the tip should be cut as well? So the "sausage" is open ended on both ends?

[@Steveshappylittletrees]

Smart, and Hot!

[@Steve-514]

I hope you can help I bought a nice 2" bright green turbinaria heronensisdrag frag brought it home dipped and drip acclimatized. When I put it in the display it wasn't as bright but still nice but the next day it lost its color and turned a brownish. Is it dying? I did a ICP test and everything is fine

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hi, thanks for the great question. If ICP results and general molecular water chemistry is definitely in check ie KH, NO3, PO4... the main reasons coral could turn brown is inappropriate nutrition, lighting or even flow. Given it was so fast ie. one day later it is likely to be from a shock change in light and or another parameter not testable via ICP such as pH, salinity or temperature.

[@Steve-514]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Thanks for the reply. So does that mean it's dead ? Can it still come back ? I can still see some faint green under blue lights or is that still the remaining flesh and is it ok to just leave it in there ? Sorry for all the questions but there isn't much information about this that I can find