Why exactly are those three species threatened? Polution? Divers harming them? Mother nature? Any and all human interference?
Acropora palmata in captivity
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Why exactly are those three species threatened? Polution? Divers harming them? Mother nature? Any and all human interference?
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All of the above. From wikipedia:
"Since 1980, populations have collapsed throughout their range from disease outbreaks, with losses compounded locally by hurricanes, increased predation, bleaching, and other factors. This species is also particularly susceptible to damage from sedimentation and sensitive to temperature and salinity variation. Populations have declined by up to 98% throughout the range, and localized extirpations have occurred."
About a year and a half ago I was on a small forum and came across a diver from Florida who collected corals, legally, for his aquariums and sold some others so he could make some $ for himself. Anyways, he gave me a small list of what he could get large size colonies of and iirc he also told me that he had collected some elkhorn coral before it was protected...To bad I don't really know how to contact him again...
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IKR??? That is hilarious Troy. Its sad that these beautiful pieces just keep getting hacked and hacked. Buy a frag, put it in your DT and let the thing GROW!
deadmeat
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Yea we are lucky pre protected is in the hobby and wild collection is prohibited! Sad would be not respecting all the critters we put into our tanks. Seems that as long as people can get the eye candy they desire they are happy. Anything else they criticize...
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Nice!
Can you post a picture of that frag that you got, please?
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Ha!... anyway... a recent post mentioning a frag of A. palmata just can't go without at least one nice picture of it under a "daylight" setting!
There is an elk horn montipora that can be mistaken for acropora palmata. Picture above kinda looks like that.
There are people who have A. Plamata and have received it legally. It is tricky to keep and even tricker to move since selling it might be illegal and trading it is questionable. It grows slow, seems to want more PAR than most people can give it and does not tolerate much in the way of elevated no3 and po4 or instability. It looks good under 10k and better than the pics from the ocean.
It is just dumb to me that some folks would rather see larger pieces of this destroyed rather than given away to other hobbyists. NFP aquariums can trade them, the last that I heard. Nobody wants them to put back in the ocean after being in captivity.
I doubt that any of them will post on here and deal with the PMs asking for shipping or anything. :) The ones that I know that have it are around the Gulf Coast.
It is just dumb to me that some folks would rather see larger pieces of this destroyed rather than given away to other hobbyists. NFP aquariums can trade them, the last that I heard. Nobody wants them to put back in the ocean after being in captivity.
I doubt that any of them will post on here and deal with the PMs asking for shipping or anything. :) The ones that I know that have it are around the Gulf Coast.
