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Hacking coral sex to save the reefs

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Do You Get Corals to Breed?

i love to think about just the challenge that is involved in working an underwater condition. And so the ideas that you'll eventually actually plant these or glue these pieces of coral on a natural reef. What does that actually look like? Are you en glue under water? So primarily i use a poxy to put corals on the reef, but we also can use nails and zipties. It's a little soramic plug with a circular head and a little stem. If the coral is on that, we'll snip the stem off, and then we'll just poxiate to the reef.

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