Can I buy sick coral

[lholmes]

Ok ok, this might seem weird, but is their any way I could but sick coral because I’m going to college for Marine Biology, and plan to work with the Coral Restoration Foundation. I want to have some practice with sick coral before I work with them, and also just get a general understanding of their behavior.
Thank you!

 

[Jekyl]

Ok ok, this might seem weird, but is their any way I could but sick coral because I’m going to college for Marine Biology, and plan to work with the Coral Restoration Foundation. I want to have some practice with sick coral before I work with them, and also just get a general understanding of their behavior.
Thank you!

Having healthy coral flourish is about the same as reviving a sick one besides the treating of pests or BJD aspects.

 

[Sharkbait19]

You can always swing by the local petco…that’s bound to have some sick corals.
Also there’s always a few at the lfs that won’t be as good quality, you may be able to get a discount on them.
Of course, truly sick corals (diseased) can pose a risk to your reef.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

A sick coral that is going to survive shipping?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Would you settle for some coral irritating pest?

 

[FIN&BONEZ]

I graduated from the University of Miami in marine biology and chemistry. If I were you I wouldn't worry about coral. That would be many many years after you thought about fish. Good luck, wish you well. But your asking a question that most if not all on this plat cant give you an honest answer. Thats gonna be up to you.

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

I’m confused by this question - you want to buy “sick?” coral to attempt to rehabilitate? How do you identify sick coral? You are going to walk into a lfs and ask for sick their coral section? Lol

 

[Hairyteeth]

While towards a noble quest, agree with some of the comments above… most sick coral will have a hard time with transit and being added to a new tank.
Do you already keep a reef tank, if so I bet you’dget enough coral near its death bed all on its own through trial and error.
All that being said I think there are a lot of really smart people here and in the field that might be able to point to exact diseases and phenomena that they are researching that may lead to a good starting point for you?
Either way be our Einstein!!

 

[Spare time]

If you are planning to work with coral, I'd try to get in contact with an academic lab with a focus on this. Keeping coral may be helpful to you, but you'd want to familiarize yourself with standard coral care before moving to disease as otherwise you are going to waste your money since you likely don't have the tools nor skills to analyze coral disease in depth at this point in your academic career. Plus, the skills learned in captive coral care may not transfer to wild coral knowledge unless your are looking to do experimental captive coral studies. There is often a huge difference in the study of animal behavior when comparing wild and captive specimins

 

[((FORDTECH))]

I’ll sell you all my dying coral for a good price no Take backs tho

 

[mdb_talon]

I could suggest a few vendors that would gladly supply what you want and you would not even have to ask special for the sick ones....however that would shut down the thread lol