The Frag Files: Chalice Propagation

[@johnbrand1893]

Marine biologists Ania and Cam are so knowledgable on their corals, fish, it’s both entertaining and informative, listening to their videos every week, there always packed full of good marine keeping practices, keeping you interested from start to finish, well worth the sub. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

John Brand thank you so much for your positive feedback, kind words. This brings us so much happiness. And mostly, thank you for watching!

[@jimelliott33]

Yesss!! Tea on the brew!!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Cheers to you! ☺️

[@BahamaLlamaCoral]

Love me some Ania fragging videos!! Thank you for sharing your techniques!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much for the kind words Remy! Ania

[@braveheartreefer525]

Great video Ania looking forward to seeing how the frags get on

[@anibalchannel6666]

Hi ania from texas usa Thank you for sharing excellent excellent presentation be safe

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hello out there in Texas! Hope you’re enjoying a lovely day! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. Cheers! Ania

[@sunnygoold9449]

New outrow..awesome - much better ;) Frag Files are just awesome - I am surprised to hear they don't need a mouth - lets see what happens ;)

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Sunny Goold that’s so nice to hear! Cam was never a big fan of the old outro!

[@sunnygoold9449]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Early on it was awesome... but as your videos have gotten more professional the outro became a bit of a relic ;) Also Cam seems totally in control on Camera now - and super calm with the tanks - that outro was epic because Cam was trying to put so much energy into it ;) Love it!

[@firsttimereefertv1588]

Another great video! Love you guys so much!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much David for your support ❤️ Ania

[@freddy-b]

Please do a follow up on the frags, especially the no mouth frags.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hi Freddy, I am sorry we didn’t get a chance to do a follow up film session on these . But I do recall the frags with the mouth were definitely more successful. When exposed to ideal conditions, the base tissue frags are able to generate energy from the light to create their own mouth, and once that has occurred, their growth is exponentially faster.

[@odan954]

Great episode, I love coral fragging, greetings from Poland

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Daniel Dziękuje!

[@gabesreef]

Great info, great video! Thank you!!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! Thanks for watching 😊 Ania

[@gabesreef]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV of course!!!

[@volteface69]

Merci pour cette vidéo Ania !!! 👍👍👍

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

[@volteface69]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV À vous et vos proches également !!!🎅🎅🎅

[@marksmith566]

I love watching Ania frag corals I find it not only informative but so relaxing 🙂👍

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you Mark ❤️ Ania

[@reidadams2726]

love your videos! watching all the way from Detroit Michigan. keep up the great content!

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much Reid! That is very kind! Ania

[@ajsreef1034]

Hey Ania the frag master. Nice to see some more fragging vids 😊

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you so much for your kind encouraging words. We really enjoy sharing our coral knowledge with hobbyists, and appreciate you watching! Ania

[@Reefgrrl]

Awesome video Ania, as always! I have a couple chalices that are encrusted to pieces of rock and are flaring out into plates as they get too big for the rocks. I see some fragging in my future! One is brilliant gold with purple shading around the mouths. And the other has orange mouths on a blue-green base with yellow knobby ridges - both are stunners. Watching your video gave me a few great tips so maybe I’ll be less nervous lol. 👍🏻

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thank you SO much for your encouraging words. I find most Chalice corals appreciate Subdued - moderately subdued lighting and higher flow. I don’t feel them often but am trying to target feed these drags at least twice a week with powdered food to assist with growth. Ania

[@Reefgrrl]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Thanks so much for the tips - I will see what I can do to increase flow for them. Limited options in the temporary tank but I have many powerheads I can install. 😁

[@jamiejeffery9556]

I fragged my purple with blood mouth one and frag mouth and without mouth grows fast without took like a month long to really start growing at the speed of the mouth ones but after frag ones with ended up dark in colour

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

That’s so very interesting! Thank you for sharing!

[@coraladdict5059]

Girl thanx for sharing the Pro tips on Chalice after care and fragging! I am betting the one’s with no mouth grow more encrusting tissue faster.

[@TattooedDancer91]

Nice tutorial Ania! Funnily enough I can not get my chalices to grow, they all recede. Even in my LPS/zoa tank they just wither back, and the acropora tank is no good either for them. :/

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

TattooedDancer91 interesting! The divers who collect it have told me that it is often found sideways on cave walls or almost upside down on ledges so I generally only give it low intensity light.

[@TattooedDancer91]

@@GalleryAquaticaTV Yeah that sounds like next to no light. I have three survivors, I'll try placing them vertically away from the light, so they only get ambient/reflective T5 light, thanks! :) Information about the corals natural habitats are super interesting and rather hard to come by. You guys should do some interviews with the collectors or something :D

[@insanity4224]

TattooedDancer91 interviews with collectors is a damn good idea!

[@TattooedDancer91]

@@insanity4224 Right?! Nobody's done that.

[@vallejogrown]

TattooedDancer91 I third this 😂

[@kurthunter8940]

Welcome back! Excellence tutorial. Such a wealth of knowledge in this one little lady. I always cut including the eye but wonder if the other way will work.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Thanks Kurt, your comment is very kind. Ania

[@jonandlisa2000]

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[@kmfreef]

Waw

[@karennation3580]

Great tutorial! i am still in the buying stage though and wanting to know if all chalices plate out like the hollywood stunners I have seen in tanks that grow like a monticap sort off. I always though they dii but someone said in a pervious video they didint! I am lookling at a jaydas watermelon that going off on ebay and lost my pervious one. I dont know which kid that was but it was flat and thinner and not bumpy like the jayda's. Will that plate out? If not how does it grow. Is it encrusting because I dont care for a coral that will just takeover a rock!

[@johnkidd3975]

Hi, from Halifax Canada. Ania, I have a frag question. My LFS mentioned that he had high loss when he frags some challaice. I suspect it's because he uses a saw, and it's not clean or used to cut something else first. Also, I wonder if he uses clean water with iodine. I'm wondering if you know of some challaice dying off from fragging or if it's his process. Maybe he should try bone cutters instead. The one he had fragged was green with purple mouths. He also mentioned that during a recent trip to Toronto that some other LFS owners also have problems with some challaice and are not quick to cut a piece off for him when asked. Seasons greetings

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hi John, thank you so much for watching. Great question. Typically losses encountered with Chalice are highly likely to be from the tissue being ripped in the process, and as you suspected, it is exposed to a contaminant or bad bacteria etc to promote tissue decay. Iodine based dips are antibacterial and can be used for this. If he is using a saw, he would benefit from putting iodine in the water which drips over the saw to keep it wet. I also believe for ultimate success it’s important to have a mouth. Or a piece of mouth, though it isn’t necessarily a determining factor to success. Aftercare for LPS frags is thought to be the main driving force - daily dosing or bathing in direct uptake vitamins such as Coral Essentials CVE+ or their Amino Gro are a perfect solution. Hope that helps. And Merry Christmas to you! Ania

[@neptunes_pot]

EUR-pallets in AU? They don't be used in Iso-Containers, but they made the way to AU? Interesting :)

[@aussiereefing]

Hey guys would you consider doing a video on your grow systems in your frag shed?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hi, great question. We have always been pretty secretive about The Prop Room. Currently it’s been gutted and we hope to complete renovations this year. After which I presume we could do some videos :) Ania

[@mattcarpenter4122]

Great video Ania, thanks for sharing. In your experience, once the process of STN has started, can you reverse this and save them? I have a beautiful almost fluorescent green one and over recent months it has receded to only about 15% tissue left and the rest dead. Wondering if i could save the last bit and regrow?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hi Matt, thanks for the great question. I definitely think after care is very important with LPS success. Using a direct uptake vitamin supplement such as COral Essentials brand CVE+ or their Amino Gro would definitely help. Some people bathe deteriorating LPS in the CVE+ and find great success. Hope that helps and my apologies for the delay in reply :) Ania

[@northeastcorals]

I can't seem to sell Chalice frags to save my life. If I sold them online via close up macro photos etc I reckon they'd sell OK but when trying to sell them in the flesh from a display tank customers either don't look at them twice, or the few that do loose interest when finding out the price. Eventually I'll often end up selling them cut price to break even or at a loss just to get shot & make some space.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

I agree, they aren’t big sellers. Macro shots help but the best way is to provide a picture of the mother colony or show it to someone once grown out. Ania

[@jaswingnut]

How did they turn out? I'm thinking of fragging some of mine.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

jaswingnut the results are revealed in this weeks new Frag Files episode : Birdsnest :)

[@kevinkupper7027]

Great video 🙏 i can not find the follow up video. Can you link it here? I am interested in the outcome.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

We never did a follow up sorry😩 We do still have some of the frags in our fishroom, which we are about to feature in a new series. I’ll endeavour to show some of the different frags Ania has propagated over the years. Cam

[@TheSnakechick]

Need to do updates on how they do after fraging

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

The update on the chalice was on the recent birds nest frag files. Cam

[@patrickmonteiro1999]

So these are colourful rocks?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Corals are very special animals

[@RykMC]

You looks like Bernadette from the big bang theory.

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

And a temper to match😂😂😂

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

(Cam)

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

Hahaa thank you, Korallenwelt , that made me laugh! Ania

[@dallasstorm8860]

What are the results?

[@GalleryAquaticaTV]

The follow up was actually only filmed yesterday! Stay tuned!