What is your definition of Aquacultured?

[Waleedwale1]

I was curious of what everyone described as an Aquacultured coral. I was at a store this week asked an employee if zoa frag was maricultured, Aquacultured, or wild caught and he said it said it was Aquacultured becuase it was fragged in their store but the colony was wild... This didn't make much sense to me lol. ORA describes Aquaculture as when a coral is propagated in captivity for generations. Personally I think that we should be aqua culturing as much as possible to stop ripping corals from the ocean and losing a ton of them before they even touch our tanks. What is the line for wild to Aquacultured? What is the definition of Aquacultured to you?

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

It's a nice way of saying .....hey I have something that's more expensive than it should be because I gave it a nice name or abbreviation and you don't know any better!!!

A silly name or a Star Wars name and I'm robbing you !

 

[Waleedwale1]

Past the name game... There's a ton of aquacultured corals that aren't named just labeled when you buy them from online or something like "Aquacultured Red Digitata" my question is at what point would you consider it Aquacultured? Once it's been fragged from a wild colony in captivity or generations down the line etc

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

I would say when it is grown large in captivity and it has adapted well to the given environment , and to the synthetic forms of lighting some of us reefers use!

Anyway you cut this , it is a great question.

 

[rookie07]

I would say a coral must be completely grown in captivity for 2 generations or more to be called aquacultured. Meaning, a piece grows, you cut off new growth and let that grow to a good size, then chop up the new growth and let that grow and then frag that to sell parts of, 2 generations of new growth while in a system/tank, Or more.

 

[Waleedwale1]

I would say a coral must be completely grown in captivity for 2 generations or more to be called aquacultured. Meaning, a piece grows, you cut off new growth and let that grow to a good size, then chop up the new growth and let that grow and then frag that to sell parts of, 2 generations of new growth while in a system/tank, Or more.

Interesting thought on that only new growth should be fragged, I hadn't thought about that.

 

[piranhapat]

Mariculture is where coral are kept in the Ocean in shallow water and sold in small colony. Than we grow out same coral in our Aquarium for a few years so coral ajusts to our lighting. Also ajust to our artificial sea water. Than we frag it and hopefully we are pest free at this point. . And you start Aquaculture same coral over and over again. You have a frag that is Mariculture not Aquaculture.
Its funny how some people will only buy Aquaculture frags. Lot of people don't have good luck with them. Maybe more on SPS ends. But what ever you buy Aquaculture or Mariculture always dip and Qt...

 

[lnevo]

I think the first generation is ok...for example for mariculture, you frag a wild colony and grow it out in shallow water. Once its grown its a maricultured colony. Those frags are now "maricultured". Now frag that up and grow it out again in a tank, the frags would now qualify as aquacultured. The key here is where they grew up. You can buy wild, clip it and flip it as aquacultured. Significant grow out is required. Now forget what any of us "think" what does the word culture mean from a scientific point of view...
culture
transitive verb
1 : cultivate 2 a : to grow in a prepared medium b : to start a culture from

I think the key is growing it out!