How different are maricultures?

[jonnybravo22]

Have been learning to care for sps with increasing success and understanding. So far all popular aquacultured sps. Recently saw a very cool maricultured piece but have no experience there. Is the care any different? Any tips / thoughts? Thanks!


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[crawlerman]

I think they are more sensitive to swings in temp and Chemistry. I was told they need a lot of random flow too. I tried about 5 and 1 lived. The other 4 stn'd over about two months. What I thought was strange was the ones that were stn'ing had good color and polyp extension on the live parts.

 

[acroholicreefer]

There is a big difference between the maricultured acros and an aquacultured acro. With that being said, there is a big difference between a maricultured acro and a wild acro as well. Maricultured pieces are usually species specific and certain species do better than others. For your first time with a maricultured acro, start out with hardier species like tenuis, milleporas, staghorns, birdsnest, montiporas. Just like all new corals, but with maricultured pieces in particular, adequate quarantine procedures should be used.

 

[jonnybravo22]

thanks for the input. i generally dip rather than quarantine. is that an acceptable practice?

 

[Chris Lakies]

I believe maricultured are pieces clipped from a colony and grown to size in the ocean. Aquacultured are fragged and grown in aquaria.

So most maricultures r going to be fairly delicate.

 

[allsps40]

I think they are more sensitive to swings in temp and Chemistry. I was told they need a lot of random flow too. I tried about 5 and 1 lived. The other 4 stn'd over about two months. What I thought was strange was the ones that were stn'ing had good color and polyp extension on the live parts.

Big plus one this is exactly what I have experienced with them. Great color and PE even some growth while STN slowly creeped from the bottom up.

 

[MammothReefer]

Maricultued are the same as wild, the only difference is they are sustainable grown since they are grown from frags rather then ripping out the whole colony, and the other key thing is you know they aren't going to waste there time growing out any brown corals.. So they should all be decent looking given the right parameters. Like anything thought it will depend on the species some more easily adjust to captivity then others.