I am currently playing with the idea of a propagators swap- All home grown coral. Only growth from wild collected coral.
These days, us hobbiests have just as nice stuff as any high end vendor, hope to hear from more. Please spread the word if you guys know of others still practicing these techniques.
that sounds like fun! they are a lot hardier being in a tank already and maybe we could get a few captive bred fish in on it as well.
I always wanted to do a reef poker game. Everyone donates a mini colony with equal value of about $40-50 then you have the top 3 places, first place would get 50% of the coral (so if 10 people, he/she would get to pick the first 5 he wanted) then 2nd place get 30% (or 3 pcs if 10 people) and 3rd place gets 20% (or 2 pcs with 10 people)
Just think it would be fun and we could have some beers and talk and play some games but still throw some reefing into the mix.