Caribbean Corals in a Hobbyist Reef Aquarium

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As huge as the reef aquarium hobby has become around the world and especially in the U.S., we find it simply astounding how collectively ignorant reefers are of corals that live right off of our shores. Caribbean stony corals consist of around 70 different species which are mostly very unique with few analogues in the…
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Legalizing responsible Mariculture of Caribbean corals would create opportunity for locals and protect the reefs. It would reduce green house emission of coral transport around the world. It would allow reefs to even flourish with people giving more attention and money to the resource.

But hey, you do you CITES.
 

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As huge as the reef aquarium hobby has become around the world and especially in the U.S., we find it simply astounding how collectively ignorant reefers are of corals that live right off of our shores. Caribbean stony corals consist of around 70 different species which are mostly very unique with few analogues in the…
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Ahhh I like this. I am fortunate enough to be able to help care for some Caribbean corals as part of the Florida Reef Tract Rescue Program.

There are are many hobbyists and researchers whose combined expertise in coral husbandry would be(is) invaluable to our collective efforts in Caribbean reef restoration.

There are also people who would pay tens of thousands of dollars for the first Mussa angulosa specimens to be exported (with a stupid name) only to kill it and shrug their shoulders. At the end of the day how different are these corals from rare parrots? Is a Blue macaw in a zoo as pretty as they once were in the wild?
 

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If reef aquarists had not focused efforts on keeping corals in tanks there would be little to no "successful" (?) reef restorations happening anywhere in the wild.

I for one am long waiting to here' 'Thank You' from all of the 501C's that are collecting funds for coral restoration while they stick out their toungues at reef hobbists.

The other sticking point in recent history hinges around the embargoes and hate that gets dumped on the aquarium trade. Fact would seem to be that these delecate coral reefs have survived and flourished for a few epoch years before the rescue orgainizations stepped up to fix the world. Propagation and planting maricultured coral is probably more meddling than science. We won't see it, but I expect that a 100 years from now people will likely be removing these coral dams and salmon hatcheries just like is happing (slowly) out west with the land versions of ecological protection have failed due to misunderstanding the basic roles and functions of the given ecosystem.
 

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