I have a question. How much in percentage is your coral livestock captive bred???

[reidcrandall]

100%

 

[RickMartin]

85% of corals are captive bred

 

[jdallred]

All corals 79%
SPS 95% (Of the 2 that aren’t one is maricultured and one is unknown)
LPS 40%
Zoas 87%
Softies 67%
Fish 60%

 

[t4zalews]

I have one maricultured coral I believe...the rest are captive. Really no reason to buy wild corals anymore with the selection of aquacultured corals.

 

[jhawkor]

100% of my SPS corals are captive raised and I intend to keep it that way. I do have a wild colony of Frogspawn though. So about 98% overall.

 

[dlmkmm]

3 pieces of sps, 100% captive.
3 pieces of lps , 100% captive.
1 clown fish, 100% captive

From what I understand, captive corals do so much better in our tanks than from the wild. And with all the fragging going on now and buinesses like ORA there really is not much of a need for the wild caught corals.

 

[cdbdis]

1/65 SPS is maricultured / zero wild
1 Frogspawn Wild

98.2% captive

 

[advaquatics]

I'm @ 100% on corals and 35% on fish......Hopefully someday alot more fish will raised in captivity.....

 

[CleveYank]

ttt

 

[Alex T.]

Im over 90% Aquacultured Corals.

 

[NatureNerd]

100% of all my corals are aquaculture. I do not know where my anemone originated from. It may be a captive cloned animal or wild caught.

 

[jc-reef]

I know that at least 70% came from fellow reefers tanks & cuts from my LFS (small frags/polyps)...which came from mother colonies living in the tanks for several years.

I cannot verify the ones that were purchased from frag swaps...although most from the swaps have been aquacultured for a while encrusted on plugs.

I believe my fish are 100% wild caught though.


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[M88A2]

another 100% captive bred. for me the selection of captive bred are more than adequate and are easier on the funds. i like the idea of the thread but u may fine some bias as people who are heavily stocked on wild corals may be less inclined to participate.

 

[Chris Lakies]

100% on corals being frags or from farmed or captive tanks.

The one fish i have (sixline wrasse) is not.

Cuc is not captive bread.

 

[phenom5]

SPS-100%
LPS-no idea
Zoa-100%
Fish-33%
Crabs/ snails/ etc-no idea
LR-0%

 

[newbie916]

I'd say my corals are 90-95% captive bred that I got from other reefers. Most are lineaged pieces, so I know they've been in captivity for several generations. I have a maricultured acro colony, a chalice frag, and maybe 5 sps frags that are wild from over 100 different kinds of coral that I have in my 3 tanks. I believe most experienced reefers will buy aquacultured pieces, but some newer to the hobby would rather spend $60 on a colony than $60 on a 3/4" frag. Until they realize that many of those colonies brown out, rtn, stn, and could come with unwanted pests. I will have to admit that if I do see some nice maricultured frags I will try them out. Some are awesome like the Strawberry Shortcakes the recently came in from Australia.

 

[ati70cutlass]

i would rather spend an extra 20.00 on a coral knowing that it is captive and that i am not taking anything from the reef. i think this is totally being responsilbe and i wont have it any other way. i would rather get an ugly coral over a wild specimen that is beautiful. thats just me. i use to be a hunter and killed lots of animals. i havent in over 3 years and it feels good

 

[MammothReefer]

Everything but my frags are wild. (or maricultured)

I would say 70-80% of my tank is wild, but that means nothing to me.

I read years ago 99% of marine animals sold for hobbyist die in the first year. I'm sorry but if you are really conscious about reefs you wouldn't have a reef tank. I don't see the point in sugar coating it and pretending like we care. We don't, we only care that we don't waste our money if our corals die on us. Even if you bought 1 wild piece once, fish, coral ect, or even if you only buy captive the amount of corals that died to pave the way for the one captive piece to thrive and make it into your tank is astronomical. You really can't win this argument if you look at the bigger picture. Now that doesn't mean to say that our actions are having an negative impact on the reefs. Only that you shouldn't try to claim to love cows over a steak dinner conversation.

 

[israel.kendall]

I'm about 85% aquacultered. That being said, buying only aquacultured frags doesn't necessarily lessen the impact on the reefs. With the hype and crazy prices on some corals, it creates a goldrush type of effect. More pressure is put on collectors to try to find the next big thing, the next wammalamadingdong chalice or whatever. They are going to pull thousands of corals out of the ocean in hopes of finding another new moneymaker.

So while buying aquacultured has its plusses for sure, it doesn't really lead to lower collection rates from the ocean IMO. And if the aquacultured corals you're buying are "high end" then you're likely helping to increase the collection of wild corals in a roundabout way.

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

I'm just going to say that I have seen it all and I agree with MammothReefer. The whole industry is fishy, all around.

90% SPS and 10% LPS
50% Imported and 50% Aquacultured (I've cultured all of them myself)