The Coral Spawning Program at Monsoon Aquatics
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2023
- Join me in a chat with Jonathan, the lead scientist at Monsoon Aquatics about their incredible captive coral spawning program that has led to the WORLDS FIRST captive spawned scolly corals being available to the domestic market.
This program is so bleeding edge, it has been recognised and accelerated by The Australian government with a stage 2 accelerating commercialisation grant. Let's chat with Jonathan about the huge amount of work that has gone into this program so far, what is to come and what the current results look like!
Reefbuilders article can be found here:
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This is remarkable! I’m shocked more reefers in the US haven’t even spoken of this. This is awesome for hobbyists and reef restoration. Parker keep up the good Content.
Thanks so much!!
Awesome, keep up the good work.
Knowing monsoon, they certainly will!
Loved these videos Sam! More please!
Thanks mate!
This aquaculture program and the innovation grant are both phenomenal efforts. Thank you for sharing their success with the rest of us.
I sincerely hope this is the direction our shared hobby continues to take.
Glad you like them!
This is absolutely fascinating, Sam! Thank you so much for doing this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Super fascinating stuff & what a giant step forward , here to plenty of corals, rebuilding reefs & wiping out expensive greed for corals within the so called community .
Massive step in the right direction!!
Excellent, last episode here was terrific. Frags are so clean
Glad you’ve enjoyed them :)
On ya jonathan! 🎉
Champion!!
Wow what a treat to see a scoly spawning! Thanks so much and thank you to Jonathan for such a thorough discussion! Can't wait to see what the future holds for these corals. I hope that new technology and sharing of information makes spawning LPS more accessible to the average hobbyist!
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment :)
This new research is exhilarating! Great Job guys!
Thanks for watching!!
AMAZING!, can’t describe it on another word. The effort, patience and time that the proccess take. Congrats for the “first” step, wish them the Best!!.
Ps: regrats from Chile 🇨🇱
Thank you very much!
Best video ever!!! Really interesting to see the future!!
So glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching :)
Wow amazing that is awesome keep up the great work and keep us posted on your progress thank you
Thanks mate, appreciate it!
That’s so awesome , one thing that wasn’t talked about was water temp and how it changes with those deeper water corals
It is a field they are experimenting with at the moment, both from a resilience perspective but also a cost saving
Definitely enjoyed this episode. Truly amazing work 👏🏻
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Thanks for watching :)
Amazing work 👏, and great move on the government's part.
Incredible work for all involved!
Insane!
Need to watch it another 5 times ;)
Fantastic, glad you enjoyed it 👍🏻
@@ParkersReef definitely!
This is amazing!! I knew monsoon were making some moves but dammn. What an amazing job you do with your videos, thank you!
Thank you so much, glad you’re enjoying them! Monsoon are kicking goals for sure!!
Thanks Sam so much for filming this as this was so far up my alley - you have no idea haha! I may have missed it due to the little ones running around my feet but I am very curious and have some follow up questions you may be able to answer or possibly the team?Curious into sample sizes of brood stock, how many spawns made it to settlement, success rate of these spawns, and how this has increased or improved in subsequent spawning events in the lab and even how many babies in total from all their work? Thanks 👍
Glad you enjoyed it mate! I know the team are checking the comments so hopefully they can respond. If not, I’ll see if I can get some answers for you :)
Such important work, both for the hobby and the reefs themselves
Absolutely agree!
Can’t wait! 🥰
Is a good video !!
@@ParkersReef more Juno?
Haha not this time mate
@@ParkersReef 😭😭😂
Jonathan is great too, don’t worry. Another super passionate reefing star
My dream job. Great info here Sam thanks 👍
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it 😀
Well managed coral reef fisheries really have no negative impacts, I'm not sure why Australia would want to continue to tighten restrictions, except perhaps as part of an across the board effort to exert more control and restrictions over the interaction between Australians and their wild lands, which, yeah may be happening. I would also be wary of "closing the loop" while also tweaking the corals to be as productive as possible in aquaculture, you could end up with 'domesticated' or lab-rat strains that do not have the correct genetics or epigenetics to do well in the wild in a reef restoration context.
I assure you the team are well aware of the closed loop implications and are managing it.
As for why the government are tightening restrictions on fisheries, well, it’s politics 😅
This is amazing! I'm attempting something similar at a hobbyist scale with Cynarina lacrymalis, which seems to be similar in spawning habit to homophyllia. This is an incredible developement.
Fantastic work, keep up the great work!!
Incredible
Thanks for watching!
Amazing stuff! What a great job they are doing at monsoon Aquatics. Hope it all goes to plan and they can reproduce lots them so it can be more affordable 😂. Thanks for the great video Sam!
Thanks Antonio!
That's awesome they are using solar for power supply that makes a great difference and massively less carbon footprint! Awesome job and success in this endeavor!
You bet! Lots of work being put into the carbon footprint and energy consumption at this facility, it’s really forward thinking
Great video, amazing step forward both for the hobby and rebuilding coral reefs, hopefully this technology and techniques can be shared around the world with other facilities, when possible. Hopefully the importance of this research will be truly seen not just by the Australian government but by so many others and so much more funding would be provided to facilities like this, and not just to supply the hobby but to have a huge stock to replace a reef if a disaster happened which resulted in a reef being wiped out. I am sure I speak for all hobbyists that a slightest increase in price would be well worth it to save the worlds reefs from being harvested. Would definitely love to watch more about this topic and the research being done. Ie do they use lights to simulate the moonlight and lunar cycle. Please can we have a follow up video about this facility. I could literally watch this for hours. One thing came to mind when it was mentioned about the coral egg and sperm touching a surface and possibly resulting in the death of it, a air hockey table style panel for each side of a tank with a gentle flow coming from all directions to keep it suspended until it settles seems like a logical idea. 🤷🏻♂️
You bet there will be updates from the facility, the work is far to important and exciting to be a one-and-done type video!
I'm sure the team will see your suggestion surround the air hockey style setup and keep it in mind :)
Thanks for watching!
Sam
Wow thanks for an excellent video Sam. Did Jonathan say anything about the factors they do or dont use to encourage spawning? Do they adjust lighting schedules, water temperatures? Do they provide moonlight? What do they feed them? My scolies seem to just wither and die, but that may be borer muscles or just vermetids…
I believe these first couple spawns were in time with nature, but next steps are to manipulate that. The exact science is yet to be uncovered I believe, but the team is narrowing in on it fast!
Dude, that was awesome, thanks for showing. Question - I didn't see any algae eating critters in those tanks, how are they controlling algae? Thanks again.
Yeah great question!! I didn’t notice any either, not sure how they manage it?!
How can I be a part of this? This is my passion.
I’d reach out to monsoon and offer your services :)
Roger that. Thank you.
There's 5 coral farms around here.
Interfish is by far the most advanced in this field.
Good to know! Do they have any information out there I can see?
Under bio security they are very wary of visitors. I'm a biologist and I only visit on their request . I'll get what information I can for you. Being export only and not supplying the domestic market I don't know how receptive any of them will be.
Be great to hear about their program!
How many babies per egg??
yeah great question! I'm not qualified to respond, but I was under the impression it was one per egg?
Need someone to identify a baby coral in my last video
yeah I saw that video, I don't know what it is sorry!
@@ParkersReef all good thanks for taking a look 😁🤘
Least I could do mate!
@@ParkersReef cheers
Normal regular hobbyist will never be able to get any of those corals. Greed and money will always dominate. Look at biota and all the empty promises about a $60 yellow tang
These things take time, research and development isn’t cheap! But rest assured , of all the 100,000 corals I saw at monsoon, nothing was what I would consider to be “expensive”
Initially it might go so that wealthy hobbyist 'fund' the development of the process by paying big money for these offspring but when they start coming in thousands the price is bound to come down rather steep cause they need to keep the wheels turning. Naturally a lot coral might and most likely will go to reef restoration but the volume might explode into their faces unless prices go down.
To be fair, we don’t actually know the asking price of this first batch of captive spawned scolly - they might be more affordable than you think?
@@ParkersReef I doubt it. Greed will always prevail. No way they release them cheaper than the wild ones. They also won’t flood them market because that would bring the price down
Could be your opportunity to do it cheaper?