The Future: Coral From Eggs

[GARRIGA]

Was aware coral breeding had been accomplished in captivity but now we have a company (first I’m aware of) that will be offering eggs to aquarists.

 

[iReefer12]

It’s a really nice idea, buy a bottle of mixed up SPS eggs, pour it in and let your home reef be populated… that being said, I find it very hard to believe that they wouldn’t just become fish food and chances of them successfully becoming a coral have to be near zero.

Love the idea though!

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

It’s a really nice idea, buy a bottle of mixed up SPS eggs, pour it in and let your home reef be populated… that being said, I find it very hard to believe that they wouldn’t just become fish food and chances of them successfully becoming a coral have to be near zero.

Love the idea though!

Just have no fish lol

 

[Alexraptor]

Seemed to me they were talking about selling genuine baby colonies, not eggs, which makes a lot of sense. Greater genetic diversity vs just selling frags or colonies grown from frags.

Only coral I've had succesfully breed in my systems, and repeatedly at that, are blue clove polyps. :grinning-face-with-sweat:

 

[GARRIGA]

It’s a really nice idea, buy a bottle of mixed up SPS eggs, pour it in and let your home reef be populated… that being said, I find it very hard to believe that they wouldn’t just become fish food and chances of them successfully becoming a coral have to be near zero.

Love the idea though!

I’m thinking same as far as application but could be an option for those starting new tanks. Perhaps each vial representing a particular region. All SPS from say the Great Barrier Reef.

Although could be each egg comes in a syringe that is used to place the egg on a spot.

I’m sure they are working on figuring it out and showed one colony from a single egg two and a half years old. Didn’t know from egg they’d grow that fast.

 

[GARRIGA]

Seemed to me they were talking about selling genuine baby colonies, not eggs, which makes a lot of sense. Greater genetic diversity vs just selling frags or colonies grown from frags.

Only coral I've had succesfully breed in my systems, and repeatedly at that, are blue clove polyps. :grinning-face-with-sweat:

Could be propagated colonies from eggs. Good catch. I keep imaging a vial of brine shrimp eggs :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing: