5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Aquacultured Corals

Zoanthids are one of the most vibrant and highly sought after aquarium corals among hobbyists. They are quite hardy, multihued, and grows fast. These species can have colors from de-saturated green to vibrant red and every single color in between. When you are shopping for some zoanthids, either online or locally, you should always purchase aquaculutured zoanthids, this is due to a number of reasons we will be discussing below. There are a number of reasons why it’s important that you purchase aquacultured zoanthids, these reasons sometimes get overlooked by the newcomers and seasoned reef keepers alike.

Why go for aquacultured corals:

Hardiness: Aquacultured zoanthids are a lot more tough as opposed to zoanthids that are collected from the wild. In addition to that, there is a higher risk of wild collected specimens bearing parasites such as the coral eating flatworm or carrying some kind of disease that might destroy your zoanthid garden.

Fast Growth: Aquacultured zoanthids grow faster that those polyps that were collected in the wild. This is due to the aquacultured ones being already adapted to living in the aquarium environment and its lighting conditions.

All Around Better for Natural Reef Setups: When you purchase aquacultured zoanthids you are protecting the wild reefs because the ones you buy are not harvested or collected from the wild reefs, preserving and keeping the wild reefs of the world’s oceans intact.

Better Disease Resistance: The biggest concern that a lot of reef keepers often face is that their zoanthids just melts away in as little as over a day. The reason why this happens still remains a big mystery and is still being discussed by reef keeping enthusiasts, but it is noticed that this occurs mostly on zoanthid gardens that contain a majority of wild collected specimens.

High Demand: Zoanthids have a good resale value as they are highly in demand, this means that you can resell them for a good profit. Your zoanthid garden will inevitably grow and spread, you can chip of a portion of them and then sell or even trade them with other hobbyists and fish stores. To many hobbyists, this is their main way of supporting their hoby,

Zoanthids are highly beloved and adored by almost all marine aquarists. Their biggest traits of the zoanthids are that they are colorful, fast growing, and generally hardy corals. They make perfect starter corals for beginner reef keepers and veterans of the hobby cans still enjoy theses corals as the corals with the rarer color patterns can still be a joy to have in one’s aquarium.

It is your choice of buying corals for sale from coral farmers, fellow hobbyists, and from local fish stores will ensure that the hobby will continue to have their fair supply of corals. Zoanthids are very beautiful and resilient animals. They add a wonderful splash of color to aquariums and are relatively easy to maintain.

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