giving back

[reef165]

if there was a online store that sold aquacultured corals and donated the profits to reef conservation, study and repopulation would you be willing to pay a little more knowing it was for a good cause or do you feel the hobby is expencive enouph and would rather not?

 

[Redstratplayer]

Hell ya i would pay more!!!!!!

 

[Misled]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9274030#post9274030 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Redstratplayer
Hell ya i would pay more!!!!!!

I would also. They tend to do better in tanks also!

 

[reef165]

i thought this would be a good topic with the natural reefs slowly disapering and the love of the hobby most of us have. ive just come into some money and was thinking of investing it into opening a coral farm and only selling 3rd generation and better. aquaculturing corals and donating profits to reef conservation
just to give back to the wild reefs our hobby takes so much from. I want to do this for the love of the open ocean and the hobby, but it would be worthless without the support of the hobbyest.

 

[scrmbld33]

me too, i would spend even more if you open it up in nj

 

[Misled]

Actually, you would be surprised how many corals come from farms or just aquacultured in peoples tanks. I have 7 sps, 4leathers, 3 lps and tons of zoas, mushrooms, and palys. I can say they all came from frags except my lybo. I personally know of 2 local people in the pittsburgh area that have or had coral farms. I don't know how it is on the west coast.

 

[reef165]

yes but can you say when you bought all those frags you also gave to lets say reef balls whare they plant cement half cylnders with holes in them in the ocean and then attatch corals to form new coral reefs quite ammazing and works much much better than the tires they tryed in florida in the 70s and are now paying in the millions to remove