Geothermal Aquaculture Research Foundation

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

This is the 150 gallon AragocreteTM reef that is 9 months old. This is a view from the left end of the reef in Doug's office. This view shows how the sps frags are glued to the hand made rock. The coralline algae has covered almost 100 percent of these rocks. The sps corals are growing very fast and we are taking many cuttings from this brood stock reef. We have purchased 90 different types of sps corals in many bright colors. The large Xenia at the top of this reef were grown from 2 polyps that came from Sally Jo's reef. This Xenia is ready to cut now, and we will attach the single polyps to reef plugs with bridal veil. We are going to hang the reef plugs from fishing line attached to the VHO lights. This will allow us to put them any distance from the light. We will show you how this works as they start to grow.