I think this is the way the trade will go which means prices will sky rocket for everything.

Like this hobby isn't expensive enough! :lol:

Yeah, this hobby is expensive... Just a matter of all of us working together, trading frags and ideas. I believe there is enough coral taken already, and if we all take care of things, why take more out of the oceans.

What will happen is that companies will setup coral farms, they are already out there, but more will pop up.

I do believe something has to be done, as the worlds reefs are being destroyed by humans, I am ok with this, as I want to be able to have my kids take their kids (one day) to the oceans reefs.

word.

A few months back someone posted a video link of some ocean coral farmers that were growing corals in the ocean and returning them to the reefs (or creating new reefs). I think this is what needs to be done on a larger scale. Harvest some corals, grow it out, sell some to the industry and return a bunch back to the ocean. Kind of like what the forestry industry is doing. Take a tree, plant a tree, etc.

this will only go so far many natural colonie's are bleaching out and being depleted naturally as well. time to break out the 1000000 gph reactor's

Maybe if everyone donated some of their BIo pellets to the ocean. Although that wouldn't help with some of the other causes like heat?

I can see it now.. The new excuse for husbands to get new frags. "But Honey, it's an investment! Later when it's banned for import I can sell the frags for more than I paid!"

I think you are on to something.

Expensive and very addictive :-(