Here are some advantages of aquarium grown corals:

Coral frags are already adapted to aquarium conditions and have a much greater tolerance to fluctuations than imported corals.
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Overall, there are significantly fewer losses than with corals taken from the wild.

With natural corals, we do not know the light and current conditions in which the coral has grown. It is only some time later that the coral will tell us if we did the right thing when we put it in our aquarium, e.g. through growth or bleaching. With aquarium-grown corals, we know the light and current conditions, as well as the water parameters.

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No natural harvesting is required.

Farmed coral in tropical countries can have the advantage of providing a source of income for local people. It is therefore a sustainable use of coral reefs. However, the lower energy consumption in these countries (no artificial lighting) is offset by the very energy-intensive transport by air.

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We have a permanent selection of over 100 coral species.

We have maintained this species stock for many years, some of them for more than 15 years. Our species are extensively documented in terms of growth form, coloration, polyp appearance and ecology under different environmental conditions. Of some species, many hundreds of offshoots have already been sold, which may have grown into large mother colonies in the new tanks and from there have found further distribution in marine aquaristics.

We also fragment the block corals and LPS!

Many LPS species, especially the massively growing corals (Favites, Micromussa, Acanthastrea, Goniopora, Alveopora, Platygyra, Pachyseris, etc.) or submassively growing corals (e.g. Fimbriaphyllia ancora) are hardly fragmented inland. In addition, these species grow much more slowly than Montipora, Acropora, Seriatopora and the like. As a result, these corals in the aquarium trade continue to come mostly from nature collections. Often you can guess how they were cut out of a large mother coral with a chisel.
As this takes more time and the fragments grow more slowly, we have to charge a slightly higher price than for other species. On the other hand, these are real ‘offspring’ corals, grown using 100% renewable energy.
Of course, all mother colonies also originate from nature abstractions. Our premise in fragmentation is that the mass of the mother coral after fragmentation must never fall below the initial weight at which we obtained the species. The mass of the mother colony and the frags descending from it will therefore increase to a certain point (space availability). This is also documented. Only the “excess” that has grown in the aquarium is sold. This ensures that they are genuine aquacultured corals. From all our mother colonies we have been able to sell coral frags many times the initial coral mass. We also try to maintain at least two colonies of each species – to preserve the species in case one coral dies.

Why coral propagation?

Here are some advantages of aquarium grown corals:

We also fragment the block corals and LPS!

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