How are new corals bred?

[Cassian]

So im just curious...All the time I see these trademarked corals like the space monster or eagle eye zoanthid. How do people develop their own variety of coral? I assume you cant cross breed corals like you can other animas or fish. Ive always wondered about this and if I knew how to do it it would be fun to experiment with...

 

[James M]

People just slap a name on the coral along with a price tag.

 

[Reefpuck]

Buy maricultured pieces from the ocean...color them up in their systems and if they look a hair different...give them a catchy name.

 

[Star reefer3]

Yea its alot of wild caught stuff and then some times it colors up crazy and also you can graft some Montis favia and zoas can be grafted. And I read an article in coral magazine Bout the Walt Disney tenius and how when the owner first got it it was just a boring uncolrful stick that colored up really well in captivity

 

[Cassian]

interesting. so I guess there is no such thing as hybrid corals then?

 

[Cassian]

Yea its alot of wild caught stuff and then some times it colors up crazy and also you can graft some Montis favia and zoas can be grafted. And I read an article in coral magazine Bout the Walt Disney tenius and how when the owner first got it it was just a boring uncolrful stick that colored up really well in captivity

wow thats really neat! Walt Disney is a nice one

 

[Star reefer3]

wow thats really neat! Walt Disney is a nice one

Yea coral magazine is definetly a worth while thing to have