Divers den SPS
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Peter Eichler
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They're all wild in the SPS section. The mariculture section is ex situ aqualtured corals and the aquaculture section is in situ aquacultured. I'd like to have a talk with whoever came up with the brilliant thought that mariculture was different from aquaculture...
Peter Eichler
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Mariculture just means marine aquaculture. So, technically all corals that aren't wild collected are both aquacultured and maricultured. There being a difference is something someone in our hobby made up and then a bunch of people that didn't know any better followed along.
Peter Eichler
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Again, that's the made-up hobby definition.
Mattewell
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I just bought a SPS piece off Divers Den. It was under the mariculture section. Beautiful piece of coral. The frag plug it came on seemed like solid concrete (nothing burrowed into it). Lots of coralline algae. Didn’t have any pests on it.
I wouldn't want anyone to get discouraged from buying mariculture because they are afraid of pests. We all should employ some kind of quarantine procedure before placing coral in display tanks anyway.
Just my 2 cents.
I wouldn't want anyone to get discouraged from buying mariculture because they are afraid of pests. We all should employ some kind of quarantine procedure before placing coral in display tanks anyway.
Just my 2 cents.
Peter Eichler
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I would agree that there is good reason to excercise more caution with "maricultured" pieces when it comes to pests. However, buying them from a reputable sources such as Liveaquaria and dipping properly with a bayer dip should be enough to keep possible pests out. So also agreed that people shouldn't shy away from them altogether.
MammothReefer
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The SPS section is a mix. It's mostly wild stuff but the occasional mari piece will end up on there if it's nice enough and pricey enough.
Treat all corals like they have pests DD isn't dipping these corals for you.
Treat all corals like they have pests DD isn't dipping these corals for you.
Piper27
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So your saying all maricultured corals are frags from aquariums grown in the ocean?
From the definition I read it would seem the only corals that are in situ are the ones growing naturally on the reef.
Sure they are, Ive seen first hand when they get A shipment in. They try to take out the acro crabs treat the corals and return the crabs.
you think they are going to risk killing off whole raceways of corals by not putting corals in quarantine.
So does this mean the mariculture sites are the same as the tank in my living room? I have a couple frags from maricultured pieces and they have more brilliant color than the original colonies do? Is this made up or could it be terms to differentiate environments that corals built their exoskeletons? Or grew ? Anyways the sps section sometimes has some of the same corals listed in the maricultured section. The quality has definitely gone downhill on divers den shipments to the front door. UPS took over and if I order now it shows up between 5 and 7pm. I would recommend picking up at UPS or not ordering period. It used to be decent when they used FedEx. They were at my front door before 1030a.m.
Constrictor6090
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Maricultured is when a company fences off a section off the ocean and takes frags from large colonies in open reefs and grows frags of those colonies in the ocean on frag racks under natural sunlight vs bulbs or leds.
toothman
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I would consider these mariculture.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rg4Rye449Hw
The Sps section is just corals cut off the reefs.
Aquaculture not sure where they grow them, possibly just frag up some wild colonies. I would think they are grown in the states. like this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Kw8lUWvnbU4
The mariculture corals really do have a lot of unwanted tenacious algae on them.
The Sps section is just corals cut off the reefs.
Aquaculture not sure where they grow them, possibly just frag up some wild colonies. I would think they are grown in the states. like this.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Kw8lUWvnbU4
The mariculture corals really do have a lot of unwanted tenacious algae on them.
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