Aci Lands The First Shipment Of Bali Aquarium Cultured Corals

[TORX]

"Oh boy how good it feels to know that not only are Indonesian corals trickling out of this land of coral reefs in modest quantities, but that there’s a good number of maricultured corals in those boxes too. Chief among these are the highest grade colors and most exotic species of Bali Aquarium that reef aquarium specialist ACI was privileged to be the first to receive them in America.

We are pleased to report that the ‘Big Three’ categories of Bali Aquarium Cultured Corals were very well represented in this shipment. There’s over a dozen colors of Acropora millepora, one of the perennial favorites of the SPS keepers and stickheads and a unique species with the shaggiest of polyps and an almost endless array of colors and combinations.

The Acropora tenuis from Bali Aquarium also appeared in decent numbers but in colors approaching the Walt Disney and Homewrecker strains, many pinks, lots of blue-tip-greens, and a spectrum of blue, purple, and did we mention pinks? Millies and tenuis have been available in some numbers from Australia and Tonga but the you can really count on the saturated colors from the Bali Aquarium ‘select’ A. millepora and A. tenuis that they’ve grown and cultured for over a decade."

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[Josh]

*drools*

 

[Monnishan]

Thank you Mark for sharing this

 

[Seasquirt]

This is very nice but what does it mean for us, okay we will have access to some very nice corals but at what expense and purchasing from whom?

 

[TORX]

This is very nice but what does it mean for us, okay we will have access to some very nice corals but at what expense and purchasing from whom?

This is more about an announcement of them opening back up. The Indonesian government banned all coral exports in 2018 to stop illegal harvesting of wild coral, hundreds of sustainable farms across the country collapsed. The country was the world's largest supplier, accounting for 70% of the coral sold to the global marine aquarium market many of which were only available from Indonesia. Fiji and Hawaii also have banned exports recently, global demand was quickly outstripping supply. With more supply, prices should go down, but they do not seem to be. Although stuff coming out now is far nicer then when I started almost a decade ago.

 

[Seasquirt]

Thank you for the clarification, yes i was aware that prices have gone up but wasn't aware that regions of the world had shut down export of Coral and fish etc.