Showing my new wild sps
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Chris Lakies
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Those look nice! Did you quarantine them by chance?
trueblackpercula
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Very nice
Kaman8
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No I dont, but have dip it with coral rx for 10 min
YoungREEFA
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A week ago I got a frag of what looks like to be the same coral your posted in your first picture. I wonder if anyone knows the id.
Kaman8
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They are from wild. I hope that they stay like this.
Agreed the first one looks mariculture, anyway...because of the round base. Not sure why "wild" would be preferred to you? After all, mariculture is far more sustainable...and they are all from the "wild" at some point, anyway! 
Coral rx won't kill eggs...but Philip (guy who made coral rx) has made another product that does kill the eggs...called RPS All-Out.
Coral rx won't kill eggs...but Philip (guy who made coral rx) has made another product that does kill the eggs...called RPS All-Out.
Kaman8
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Agreed the first one looks mariculture, anyway...because of the round base. Not sure why "wild" would be preferred to you? After all, mariculture is far more sustainable...and they are all from the "wild" at some point, anyway!
Coral rx won't kill eggs...but Philip (guy who made coral rx) has made another product that does kill the eggs...called RPS All-Out.
Yes the top is round , but the bottom of the rock is not flat. I wish it was maricultured , then it would be much cheaper. I have inspect very carefully and don't see any eggs. Most of my sps in my tank are from the wild. We don't have aquacultured sps here in hk.
Kaman8
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Oh, no, that's terrible!!! I'm sorry, let me just admit my worldly ignorance here...HK?
Edit - Ah, got it...Hong Kong?
I wonder...can anyone tell me why this is?
Hong Kong is a very small city with too many people's living here. There is not such a big place that they can grow corals . I wish they could do it, because I just saw a video on YouTube about coral reef that people's are just destroying it. In the video it say that humans are destroying the nature and the title is " nature doesn't need people but people need nature "
Here is a link to the video, hope everybody will watch it.
http://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=843654772352999
Maricultured corals are grown in the country of origin and then shipped - no one maricultures corals here in the US, either...well, I suppose a bit in the keys, maybe...but ricordeas are probably one of the only ones anyone is interested in keeping, lol!
It must come down to shipping being cost prohibitive? Surely Hong Kong COULD get mariculture, right? I mean, they come on a plane to the US, can't they be shipped the same way to HK?
Can anyone explain this?
It must come down to shipping being cost prohibitive? Surely Hong Kong COULD get mariculture, right? I mean, they come on a plane to the US, can't they be shipped the same way to HK?
Can anyone explain this?
Kaman8
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Maricultured corals are grown in the country of origin and then shipped - no one maricultures corals here in the US, either...well, I suppose a bit in the keys, maybe...but ricordeas are probably one of the only ones anyone is interested in keeping, lol!
It must come down to shipping being cost prohibitive? Surely Hong Kong COULD get mariculture, right? I mean, they come on a plane to the US, can't they be shipped the same way to HK?
Can anyone explain this?
Yes we have maricultured sps, but not often. Most of the lfs import wild sps from Indonesia and Australia .
Redrosetuscan
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Aren't there some great reefs in japan? Or is collection banned?
Wild acros did bother me. Until I saw the shear numbers of them on a reef and that the weather alone destroys beyond more you could imagine. Picture 2 meter or more colony's of table acros literally ripped from the reef and destroyed in storms. Crown of thorns eating them, water like a bath cooking them.....
Although maricultured coral is certainly a very good idea and is clearly more sustainable as nothing (allegedly) is taken from the reef.
What I will say though is that on a reef of thousands of acros the real nice coloured stuff is pretty rare, for every fifty cream brown with blue tip acros there's a purple. However the colour of the sun does make everything look brown so all those brown ones probably don't look brown when in a tank somewhere.
Wild acros did bother me. Until I saw the shear numbers of them on a reef and that the weather alone destroys beyond more you could imagine. Picture 2 meter or more colony's of table acros literally ripped from the reef and destroyed in storms. Crown of thorns eating them, water like a bath cooking them.....
Although maricultured coral is certainly a very good idea and is clearly more sustainable as nothing (allegedly) is taken from the reef.
What I will say though is that on a reef of thousands of acros the real nice coloured stuff is pretty rare, for every fifty cream brown with blue tip acros there's a purple. However the colour of the sun does make everything look brown so all those brown ones probably don't look brown when in a tank somewhere.
True story, lol. I have an outdoor greenhouse...and they all look brown out there! In the showroom, though...total different story. They have colors in there I never dreamed they could pull off while they were outside! And it doesn't even all happen all at once...when exposed to artificial lighting they actually change color. Not just get brighter all the time...but sometimes change color altogether.
I URGE you to recommend your LFS get in maricultured pieces. I'm sure it is possible. Get your friends to join you - I promise, if enough if you ask them, they WILL look into it. And speaking of your friends...I bet some of them keep acros! In the right conditions, they can grow pretty fast...and there can be something really satisfying about growing a nice colony out of a frag.
Okay, off my soapbox.
I have an outdoor greenhouse...and they all look brown out there! In the showroom, though...total different story. They have colors in there I never dreamed they could pull off while they were outside! And it doesn't even all happen all at once...when exposed to artificial lighting they actually change color. Not just get brighter all the time...but sometimes change color altogether.I URGE you to recommend your LFS get in maricultured pieces. I'm sure it is possible. Get your friends to join you - I promise, if enough if you ask them, they WILL look into it. And speaking of your friends...I bet some of them keep acros! In the right conditions, they can grow pretty fast...and there can be something really satisfying about growing a nice colony out of a frag.
Okay, off my soapbox.
Kaman8
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True story, lol.
I URGE you to recommend your LFS get in maricultured pieces. I'm sure it is possible. Get your friends to join you - I promise, if enough if you ask them, they WILL look into it. And speaking of your friends...I bet some of them keep acros! In the right conditions, they can grow pretty fast...and there can be something really satisfying about growing a nice colony out of a frag.
Okay, off my soapbox.
Yes I wish they import maricultured pieces more often. When they have it will all be sold in just 1 day. I'm always too late for it
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