[Delphinus]

I'll take a stab at playing devil's advocate. For me wild-collected wouldn't be an option because of the risks inherent with tagalong pests and that there will be wild variability between colours of how it comes in and what it ends up being .. but to someone who is better positioned to properly quarantine and treat if need be outside of the main collection, that variability could be part of the fun and something unusual can come out. Further, extending the genetic diversity of captive collections is probably not too bad of an idea because if everything were clones of one another, they could all be susceptible to the same stressors. As long the harvesting was done is a sustainable manner. I'm not sure I see a huge difference between wild-collected corals and wild-caught fish. Both can be abused equally the same, yet both can be managed carefully and can be a vehicle of economic stimulus to an area that might not otherwise have much to work with. Yes of course, the argument could be made that these areas could likely do better by going into aquaculture activities instead, but who's to say that this isn't in progress and this collection isn't just an early step in that process? Or whose to say that these aren't "bycatch" of an activity to repopulate one area of a reef which may be damaged and by releasing a percentage of small colonies to be relocated to the general hobbyist market that this isn't how that process is funded? There's a lot to be read behind the word "wild" and as an end consumer I have no idea what the backstory is. Personally I think I will be choosing aquacultured and ">F2 generational" frags from now on anyhow, just owing to that I prefer less unpredictability (where possible) in my tanks these days, but I don't think I object to wild-collected being available - as long that it be done in as benign and sustainable as possible manner.