Coral gardening/farming.

Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

that is a great idea! they should do this more

Amazing! Very good way to restore reefs indeed. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, incredible!

Thats a great video. I would love to see the whole documentary.

The thing is whats to say the reef won't just get burned again?

Granted, I think this is the way conservation works best. Especially if a small percentage say 10% of frags are then sold to hobbiests as well to then support the project and make the locals realize how important the reef is itself.

-Andrew

Very interesting! Strangely enough, I was thinking to myself a couple days ago if a project like this existed, and that it would be a great way to keep the wild reefs going.

Here is some more information. I know there are several similar projects worldwide ranging from Dubai to the US to Australia to Fiji it seems.

This one in Fiji seems pretty perfect to me, here is another website I found on it.

http://www.fspi.org.fj/affiliates/fiji/coral.htm

-Andrew

A Hill said:

Thats a great video. I would love to see the whole documentary.

The thing is whats to say the reef won't just get burned again?

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That's what I was thinking while watching the video, wouldn't the same factors that caused the reef to become bleached affect the new coral?

Well if they're taking the left over coral maybe they're more resistant?

I was amazed at the growth in one year...

If anyone has connections I would skip college and go live on Fiji doing this.. :hihi:

-Andrew

this is almost exactly what we do in the reef club I'm in for our aquariums. Unfortunately they aren't returned to the reef but we do sell them to other hobbyist which helps curb the need from pulling them from the ocean.

frags on stone disks, grow them out, frag again repeat. I'd love to work on a project like this though! You get the best of both worlds! :bounce:

global warming, ocean acidification, and fertilizer run-off are each enough to kill the worlds corals. efforts should be on stopping them, before any coral can actually be restored.