I wanted to gauge interest from our local group on being apart of this. I have already signed up to be apart of this as the hub for CO and wanted to see if other would like to join in. Please read all the details on link below. Currently it is mainly acros and working towards LPS. I would be willing to handle the shipping portions of these exchanges.
Mission statement:
Help in the sustainability and survivability of a coral strain.
By distributing frags in multiple qualified systems, we increase the strains survival chances in this hobby.
There will be 3 benefits from participating in the program.
1- If one day the original coral colony died, we have reservoir in another system(survivability)
2- We help reefers here diversify their livestock, help new reefers build their reef without breaking the (keep in mind this is not just about giving/receiveing free frags, ita about survivability and sustainability of hobby coral)
3- Be part of making this hobby sustainable.
Disclaimer: This Idea originally was proposed by Richard Ross a while back. I am just in love with this idea and want to give it a shot here.
Tenet:
This program will be free, it will never be a bait to collect fees or push hidden agendas.
If you get on my banks, you are expected to follow the rules I have on each bank thread. Usually I ask for a journal to make sure your system is suitable, I also ask for you to never sell rather grow, frag and give to someone else in this forum. I do this so we do not effect online retailer as that’s their business.
The idea here is: Whoever want to participate in the program with an offering of their own, should open a thread where he/she describe their offering, their rules and based on the sign up to the thread award a frag.
Since this is online forum after all, it will be honor system. there might be abuses down the line but do not let it make you lose faith. i believe the good will be more than the bad on the long run.
Asking for journals, making sure the user is active and known in the forum will be one of the ways that you can protect your investments a bit..thats what i do at least.
Make sure to include a table in your original post so you can track recipients(see pic)
This will be an experiment for now, I do not know how it will shape up. especially for out of state users, but worth giving it a shot.
More details can be found here:
https://humble.fish/community/index.php?forums/coral-reservoir-bank.110/
Mission statement:
Help in the sustainability and survivability of a coral strain.
By distributing frags in multiple qualified systems, we increase the strains survival chances in this hobby.
There will be 3 benefits from participating in the program.
1- If one day the original coral colony died, we have reservoir in another system(survivability)
2- We help reefers here diversify their livestock, help new reefers build their reef without breaking the (keep in mind this is not just about giving/receiveing free frags, ita about survivability and sustainability of hobby coral)
3- Be part of making this hobby sustainable.
Disclaimer: This Idea originally was proposed by Richard Ross a while back. I am just in love with this idea and want to give it a shot here.
Tenet:
This program will be free, it will never be a bait to collect fees or push hidden agendas.
If you get on my banks, you are expected to follow the rules I have on each bank thread. Usually I ask for a journal to make sure your system is suitable, I also ask for you to never sell rather grow, frag and give to someone else in this forum. I do this so we do not effect online retailer as that’s their business.
The idea here is: Whoever want to participate in the program with an offering of their own, should open a thread where he/she describe their offering, their rules and based on the sign up to the thread award a frag.
Since this is online forum after all, it will be honor system. there might be abuses down the line but do not let it make you lose faith. i believe the good will be more than the bad on the long run.
Asking for journals, making sure the user is active and known in the forum will be one of the ways that you can protect your investments a bit..thats what i do at least.
Make sure to include a table in your original post so you can track recipients(see pic)
This will be an experiment for now, I do not know how it will shape up. especially for out of state users, but worth giving it a shot.
More details can be found here:
https://humble.fish/community/index.php?forums/coral-reservoir-bank.110/