Condiman
12-06-2003, 09:39 PM
Like myself and many others we are concerned about removing corals and fish from the reefs and believe the hobby should do all it can to help overcome this problem. It is our opinion I believe that we should try to propagate as many different corals and breed as many species of fish that is feasibly possible. But only try this after doing all the reasearch you can on how to propogate properly. Every cutting that we either give away or sell to a friend or aquarium store is one less coral removed from a reef. Reading articles in books and on the Internet proves that people are already propagating many different corals. But we could all do more. It is all too easy to say "The reefs can always rebuild themselves from what we remove" but it is the hobby that will be targeted first for the distruction of the reefs as it is easy picking. Restricting imports of corals for resale is an easy argument but stopping a multinational company building a hotel on a beach and dredging the reef to ensure swimming space for its guests, is a little harder. If we can reduce the quantity now, eventually people will focus on the actual problem and will not have the chance to blame the reef aquarium hobby.