整个礁石水族馆的爱好已经变得非常擅长种植各种珊瑚礁珊瑚,尤其是种植礁石的浅水物种。在过去的几十年中,我们学会了成长,碎片和微质量的珊瑚菌株,以至于我们可以在短短几年内将一个珊瑚变成10,000个殖民地。
With all of our advancements at growing and coloring corals in our tanks, there’s still one area where nature wins out. When it comes to growing large, mature and well shaped corals, no reef tank can touch the perfect colonies one can see on a wild coral reef.
Since our tanks are on the small side, and we tend to handle our corals and move them around relatively often, captive grown coral colonies are nowhere near as large or perfect as naturally grown corals. Other factors like uneven lighting and water flow, and inconsistent water quality and chemistry, often stimulates aquarium corals to grow somewhat unevenly.
更不用说,平均水族馆中缺乏空间意味着许多不同种类的珊瑚永远无法达到其大型成熟菌落尺寸的真实荣耀。我们并没有从你们中许多人在家里喜欢的美丽的盆景礁坦克中夺走,但是,如果您想看到真正的珊瑚森林,您必须将其放弃为大自然与野生珊瑚所做的工作。
越来越多的人关注的是碎裂和将各种珊瑚收集到微型珊瑚的幼儿园和素质上,使我们完全看不见珊瑚的外观。当然,那些小小的彩色棍棒可以非常丰富多彩,当它们被着色时,它们会非常满意,并散发出好的彩色尖端和包裹的基础。
但是,如果我们只给这些相同的珊瑚稍微花费更多的空间和时间,那么相同的珊瑚可以长成完全发达的生活晶体,外观完全不同。当然,有些厚实的僵硬和镀金桌杂技杂志需要多英尺的空间才能达到这种成熟水平,但是我们最喜欢的珊瑚种和菌株也可以成长为令人印象深刻的殖民地,甚至只有6到12英寸。
在应聘一些潜水的照片艾湄湾在巴厘岛,印度尼西亚, a number of colony shots really brought home this point that reef aquarists are missing something with our miniature corals. Seeing all these corals in their natural habitat, with fully matured colony size and shape is a reminder that there’s a lot more to these corals than their color, texture and branch shapes.
每种珊瑚,以及Acropora特别是,编程为开发成独特的形状和外观,直到珊瑚达到一定尺寸时,这些形状和外观并不容易出现。希望将来,对种植珊瑚的热情将朝着想要更大和更长的珊瑚生长而转向,因为当重点仅仅是珊瑚碎片时,我们就错过了我们最喜欢的珊瑚能力的许多潜在美感。