SciFri and scientist from the Georgia aquarium show us how they are raising Caribbean Acropora corals from gametes collected during spawning events. Once gametes are fertilized planula larvae are either release back onto the reef to settle and grow or brought back to the lab where they are settled on frag plugs and left to mature.
Subadult colonies of Acropora are left in the settlement tank with the newly developing coral larvae providing Zooxanthellae algae which can colonize the new fragments.
