Coral Ark

[Jase4224]

Seems like a good idea to me and a way we can give back considering how much we take..

Coral Ark - Your Tank is the Seedbank

Enlisting aquarists to help government and science conserve corals.

coralark.org

 

[Lasse]

seems good

Sincerely Lasse

 

[GlassMunky]

Seems like an interesting idea.... but very sparse with any actual details of what they plan to do or how they plan to achieve it

 

[Jase4224]

Seems like an interesting idea.... but very sparse with any actual details of what they plan to do or how they plan to achieve it

Agreed. I’m going to contact them once my coral is established and see what happens!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Interesting

 

[Crashjack]

My issue is, most of us don’t really know the actual genus/species of most of our corals, and I don’t think most of the retailers we buy them from really know. I mean, it is going to be hard to reintroduce a Walt Disney Cherry Bounce “acro” to it’s indigenous location.

 

[Udest]

Well for what it is though getting corals back into the ocean to their original locations can be a challenge , I suppose more or less it can be a large data/ support network for us.

 

[Sallstrom]

Something similar

The Forever Reef Project

A world-leading initiative to collect coral biodiversity from across the globe, starting with the Great Barrier Reef, and preserve them in a living coral ark.

coralbiobank.org

 

[Casket_Case]

I’m definitely interested. Although I want to say, we don’t really hurt the ocean as much as others do. If anything we’re helping... check this out. Ryan explains it perfectly.

 

[Jase4224]

My issue is, most of us don’t really know the actual genus/species of most of our corals, and I don’t think most of the retailers we buy them from really know. I mean, it is going to be hard to reintroduce a Walt Disney Cherry Bounce “acro” to it’s indigenous location.

Good point

 

[Fishyfish22]

it is going to be hard to reintroduce a Walt Disney Cherry Bounce “acro” to it’s indigenous location.

This is a good point that's rarely talked about, we run our tanks so consistantly that alk, temp, and light changes often result in dead/browned out coral. A lot of the thought towards reefs and aquariums in relations to exotic animal keeping is conservation and growing coral in our tanks that are dying out in the wild, but are we really conserving anything if we run them so delicately?

 

[Casket_Case]

My issue is, most of us don’t really know the actual genus/species of most of our corals, and I don’t think most of the retailers we buy them from really know. I mean, it is going to be hard to reintroduce a Walt Disney Cherry Bounce “acro” to it’s indigenous location.

Agreed. To really help we’d need access to things like Elkhorn, Staghorn, Star Boulder Coral, et cetera. And that stuff is protected so it‘d be pretty difficult to get hands on