FARMED CORALS.  
  Back in 1997 I started hearing about some hobbyists and professionals experimenting with the idea of cutting small pieces of their favorite coral and gluing them to other pieces of rock. Then Fiji was hit by a major cyclone and one of our favorite collecting reefs was smashed to bits. When we went there a few week after the storm there were little pieces of coral everywhere all over the sandy bottom. I thought this was a terrible tragedy and moved on. Then I went back to that same reef about three weeks later to show a visiting scientist the site and discovered that all those little pieces had started to send off little shoots towards the sun.
    This incident made me realize that coral farming could become a reality within our industry and hired that same scientist to begin our experiments with different types of hard coral fragments. About the same time I visited my friend, Dave Palmer, in the Solomon Islands and he showed me some racks they were working on in a remote island to the north of Honiara. After returning to Fiji I modified what I saw just a little and coral farming as we practice it today was born.
    As time went on we started to experiment with other types of coral and today our diversity spans over a wide range of species. On one reef we have 5 different farms and the potential to grow over 20,000 pieces on that reef alone. It has taken many years to get the distributors interested in this type of product but we persevered with the faith that on day this would be a major part of our market.
    Today the export of cultured coral and rock consist of about 20% of our annual export and we see the number growing. We have discovered new ways of doing things as we continue to experiment and our new manager has brought many fresh ideas with him from Australia where he dabbled in coral farming in that country.
    Our background and support of the Aquaculture/Mariculture extension of our industry has put us in a position to have grown some of most beautiful Cultured Corals that you are apt to see. Here are a few.		  
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Not all Corals shown are available 100% of the time.
Acropora
anthocercis		 Acropora
cerealis		 Acropora
cerealis		 Acropora
hyacinthus		 Acropora
nasuta		 Acropora
natalensis		 Acropora
polystoma		 Acropora
samoensis		 Acropora
samoensis
Acropora
samoensis		 Acropora
secale		 Acropora
tenuis		 Acropora
tizardi		 Acropora
valida		 Acanthastrea
bowerbanki		 Clavularia
spp.		 Clavularia
spp.		 Montipora
undata
Montipora
verrucosa		 Porites
lichen		 Sarcophyton
elegans		 Sarcophyton
elegans		 Platygyra
daedalea		 Seriatopora
hystrix		 Seriatopora
hystrix		 Stylophora
pistillata		 Turbinaria
patula
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