While attending the Love2Reef event in the UK in May, we also got to meet Dr. Jamie Craggs and listen to one of his talks on captive coral spawning. We found it inspirational, we learned a lot, but we didn’t…
Elegance coral bred for the first time in captivity
The Coral Spawning Lab has successfully spawned and raised the Elegance Coral, Catalaphyllia jardinei, for the first time in captivity. The corals spawned in October 2021 at the UK-based lab and approximately 100 juveniles have survived this far, to 11…
Tropic Marin shows the fruits of their coral reproduction labor
Tropic Marin displayed the first captive-bred Acropora in Germany at Interzoo 2022. The display was small and understated but was actually the most important stand at the show in terms of helping to protect the future of both our hobby…
First tank-bred ‘designer spliced’ Acropora for sale
Grafted or spliced coral varieties have become highly sort after in the Marine Aquarium hobby and to secure ownership of these unique frags carries a heavy price tag. Following two years of extensive work the team at the Coral Spawning…
First Captive Spawning of Homophyllia australis, the Australian ‘Scolie’
For the past ten years my work has been focused on successfully inducing coral spawning events in aquariums, but Homophyllia australis is a species that remained elusive to me despite four years of effort and commitment. The challenge of working…
Second Generation Acropora Successfully Raised at Horniman Museum
it was around six years ago that Jamie Craggs and the Horniman Museum & Gardens first successfully spawned and raised Acropora corals in an aquarium environment. Now this same team has succeeded in spawning the first generation of corals they…
Horniman’s ‘Lab Grown’ Tenuis Acros Are The REAL Limited Edition Corals!
For the last twenty years a certain subset of wild corals have been deemed to be ‘limited edition’, but since these come from the boundless ocean, how limited could they be? Well today we have what is perhaps one of…
A Visit to The Horniman Museum and Gardens
During the early days of the hobby there was sort of a barrier that existed between hobbyists, public aquarists and researchers that only some individuals like Bruce Carlson crossed. As a result, at MACNA V in 1993 in Toronto, many…
UK’s Horniman successfully completes in-vitro fertilization of captive corals
The UK’s Horniman Museum and Gardens has accomplished the first successful in-vitro fetilization of captive coral when a collection of corals transplanted from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2015, recently spawned. The spawning event in December that released approximately 130,000 eggs from nice corals of two…
‘Project Coral’ fundraising event slated for November 14 at UK’s Charterhouse Aquatics
Project Coral has been a creative and revolutionary project spearheaded by Jamie Craggs curator of the UK’s Horniman Aquarium and they are hosting a fundraising event on November 14 to ensure the project continues. You may recall, Project Coral is behind the…
