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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There a Special Tank in Your Lab?

i know that you have a very special tank in your lab, which is one of the reasons why i wanted to visit you in florida. Can you tell us about this tank? It's an aquaria that simulates all those environmental conditions, temperature and lunar cycles, that the corals need to develop gamets and reproduce. And so we can stimulate all those conditions in lab using the system, and actually get the corals to spawn when we want. I personally think it's very cool. Do these corals have personality? Do you love seeing them, interacting with them, feeding them? Definitely.

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