曾经有一次,批发商不超过中间商,从世界各地接收牲畜,并将其新近购买的海洋动物传递到水族馆商店。如今,新的批发商不仅仅是商人,其中许多人投资sincerelyin their aquaculture and especially coral farming capabilities.
在前瞻性批发商中是ACI Aquaculturewhich we had the pleasure of revisiting several weeks ago and more than a few choice corals caught our attention. With a significant and growing percentage of their facility being dedicated to coral farming, we were treated to some reallychoicebroodstock colonies of small and large polyp stony coral.
Chief among them and a major inspiration for putting together this week’s coral feature video is an exquisite colony ofAcropora Lokaniwhich we just published aspotlight article on, and a semi-tablingAcroporacolony that ACI calls the ‘Pink Panther’. What was especially striking about their growout tanks is the use of a generous amount of metal halide lamps coupled with T5 fluorescent lights, so no LED-induced blue light overdose, just truly healthy SPS corals.