Good news for corals

[liverock]

https://www.wfla.com/mobile/florida...story-to-spawn-atlantic-coral-species-in-lab/

The reefs here in Florida are decimated by disease...this is hope!

Where I used to dive...was coral reef forests incredible eco systems..in the keys back in the 70-80's...now all gone.... ...now the area is a desert...Craysforth Reef was seldom visited back then....was an AMAZING reef...now all desert...I was shocked........very sad, real sad.... to see this much change in just 1/2 of my life.....

 

[ThRoewer]

Getting the corals to spawn in captivity is one thing, raising the larva to decent size corals another. But getting them back out into the wild to repopulate the died-off reefs is a completely different story altogether.
There is actually no sense in putting anything back into the wild until the causes for the die-off has been removed.
And at the end of the day a coral reef is a very complex ecosystem formed by hundreds of species that largely depend on each other. So putting some corals back out will likely not be enough to get the dead reefs back in their former glory anytime soon.

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