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The vision… "The aquarium enthusiast wants items that have been produced in such a way that coral reefs have not been damaged and local communities are benefiting from a sustainable source of income."

The vision is now a reality!

CORAL

Coral reefs proliferate in warm (above 18°C), clear, shallow waters. There are three major reef types:

Fringing Reef - either attached to or fringing adjacent land;
Barrier Reef - separated from land by a lagoon (e.g. Great Barrier Reef, Australia);
Atoll - reefs that form a circular boundary around shallow lagoons.

Vanuatu's reef is a Fringing Reef

A variety of methods are used to produce the coral:

Small pieces of living coral colonies are carefully cut away and fastened to rocks (Cultured Coral). The parent colonies then grow back. It's just like taking cuttings from plants.
Juvenile coral colonies are selectively harvested, leaving parent colonies to naturally reproduce and restock the reef.
Broken pieces of coral are collected following the cyclone season (Cyclone Coral). These pieces, that are lying on the sand, would eventually die, but are fastened to rock to allow them to grow.

What is "Cyclone Coral"

This is a range of products which enhances our selection of cultured coral.

Many of our reef-farms are located on, or next to reefs that are exposed to continual wave action. This wave action increases substantially during storms and cyclones, causing many pieces of coral to be blasted from the rocks. The coral fragments of various sizes and types are scattered throughout the reef, a proportion of which settle on rock and the reef naturally regenerates itself. Many, however, settle on the sand, causing the coral polyps to die and eventually form the large amount of coral rubble that is present. Reef-farm divers go out on to the reef as soon as it is safe to do so after a storm and collect those fragments lying on the sand. From here the coral can take two paths:

If the quality of the fragment is good (usually about 5-10% of the fragments) it is placed in the reef-farm to de-stress until ready to be sold.
If the quality of the fragment is not good enough to be sold, it is replanted out on the reef to add to the natural regeneration process. To use very Pacific analogy, the reef-farm divers call this "taro-coral", and whole communities have "taro-coral" days where thousands of pieces are replanted on their reefs in an effort to make their businesses sustainable.

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LIVE ROCK

The cultured live rock is "growing" in about 10 metres of water. Rocks are harvested using scuba. After a curing period, the rocks are carefully inspected before being shipped.

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FISH

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