How amazing is it that we can grow coral in a glass box in our living room?

[revhtree]

How amazing is it that we can grow coral in a glass box in our living room?

Most of the time we get "reef glazed" where we forget to stop, take time and really appreciate what's happening in front of us! To know that I am able to turn 3 polys of zoanthids into 150 or a brown acropora frag into a vibrant blue multi-branching animal is just.....wow.

When you take time to just take a step back, what really wows you about you reef?

 

[jtp7004ft]

Agreed!!! Very nice pic too

 

[revhtree]

Agreed!!! Very nice pic too

Thanks but this is a stock photo!!

 

[Patientman]

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." wrote the anthropologist Loren Eisely

 

[saltybees]

 

[Joe's Coral Reef]

I purchased my first coral in 2003, to this day I still find it amazing.

 

[Nick Steele]

I find it amazing how we are able to keep these things alive and mostly thriving in such a confined area.

Being from South Florida I’ve seen first hand the decline of the natural reefs and while it can bounce back it seems to be much harder in the wild then in our tanks.

Just today I was snorkeling a spot that has had very limited staghorn growth in recent years and today it seemed to be all over the place. Granted mini colonies compared to 10 years ago but still hundreds of softball size colonies and a few sections of dinner plate size colonies. It’s been a 6-8 months since I’ve been there and I was glad to see it!

 

[DCR]

I will submit that like some many other things in the natural world, it is all by design, to reveal to us the awesome power and mind of the one that created them, so that we might seek to know him more. Sadly, too often today we either stop at just admiring the natural order or substitute the absurd idea that millions of years of random events could create such rich functional complexity and beauty.

 

[ZoWhat]

If I could only successfully grow tomatoes on my back porch like I grow out some of my zoas.... I'd be one happy camper.

I can eat some serious home grown tomatoes like I'm eating STEAK

 

[revhtree]

Bump!

 

[Mical]

What isn't amazing about a reef tank? Who knew clown fish start as a male and turns into a female? Who knew anemones rip themselves apart to multiply? Who knew corals have chemical warfare over real-estate?