This is remarkable! I’m shocked more reefers in the US haven’t even spoken of this. This is awesome for hobbyists and reef restoration. Parker keep up the good Content.

Super fascinating stuff & what a giant step forward , here to plenty of corals, rebuilding reefs & wiping out expensive greed for corals within the so called community .

This aquaculture program and the innovation grant are both phenomenal efforts. Thank you for sharing their success with the rest of us. I sincerely hope this is the direction our shared hobby continues to take.

Loved these videos Sam! More please!

Wow what a treat to see a scoly spawning! Thanks so much and thank you to Jonathan for such a thorough discussion! Can't wait to see what the future holds for these corals. I hope that new technology and sharing of information makes spawning LPS more accessible to the average hobbyist!

AMAZING!, can’t describe it on another word. The effort, patience and time that the proccess take. Congrats for the “first” step, wish them the Best!!. Ps: regrats from Chile 🇨🇱

This is absolutely fascinating, Sam! Thank you so much for doing this!

This new research is exhilarating! Great Job guys!

Excellent, last episode here was terrific. Frags are so clean

Best video ever!!! Really interesting to see the future!!

Wow amazing that is awesome keep up the great work and keep us posted on your progress thank you

Amazing work 👏, and great move on the government's part.

That’s so awesome , one thing that wasn’t talked about was water temp and how it changes with those deeper water corals

Definitely enjoyed this episode. Truly amazing work 👏🏻 Thanks for sharing 🙏

This is amazing!! I knew monsoon were making some moves but dammn. What an amazing job you do with your videos, thank you!

Insane! Need to watch it another 5 times ;)

Such important work, both for the hobby and the reefs themselves

Awesome, keep up the good work.

Can’t wait! 🥰

My dream job. Great info here Sam thanks 👍

Thanks Sam so much for filming this as this was so far up my alley - you have no idea haha! I may have missed it due to the little ones running around my feet but I am very curious and have some follow up questions you may be able to answer or possibly the team?Curious into sample sizes of brood stock, how many spawns made it to settlement, success rate of these spawns, and how this has increased or improved in subsequent spawning events in the lab and even how many babies in total from all their work? Thanks 👍

That's awesome they are using solar for power supply that makes a great difference and massively less carbon footprint! Awesome job and success in this endeavor!

This is amazing! I'm attempting something similar at a hobbyist scale with Cynarina lacrymalis, which seems to be similar in spawning habit to homophyllia. This is an incredible developement.

Well managed coral reef fisheries really have no negative impacts, I'm not sure why Australia would want to continue to tighten restrictions, except perhaps as part of an across the board effort to exert more control and restrictions over the interaction between Australians and their wild lands, which, yeah may be happening. I would also be wary of "closing the loop" while also tweaking the corals to be as productive as possible in aquaculture, you could end up with 'domesticated' or lab-rat strains that do not have the correct genetics or epigenetics to do well in the wild in a reef restoration context.

Amazing stuff! What a great job they are doing at monsoon Aquatics. Hope it all goes to plan and they can reproduce lots them so it can be more affordable 😂. Thanks for the great video Sam!

Great video, amazing step forward both for the hobby and rebuilding coral reefs, hopefully this technology and techniques can be shared around the world with other facilities, when possible. Hopefully the importance of this research will be truly seen not just by the Australian government but by so many others and so much more funding would be provided to facilities like this, and not just to supply the hobby but to have a huge stock to replace a reef if a disaster happened which resulted in a reef being wiped out. I am sure I speak for all hobbyists that a slightest increase in price would be well worth it to save the worlds reefs from being harvested. Would definitely love to watch more about this topic and the research being done. Ie do they use lights to simulate the moonlight and lunar cycle. Please can we have a follow up video about this facility. I could literally watch this for hours. One thing came to mind when it was mentioned about the coral egg and sperm touching a surface and possibly resulting in the death of it, a air hockey table style panel for each side of a tank with a gentle flow coming from all directions to keep it suspended until it settles seems like a logical idea. 🤷🏻‍♂️

On ya jonathan! 🎉

Incredible

Wow thanks for an excellent video Sam. Did Jonathan say anything about the factors they do or dont use to encourage spawning? Do they adjust lighting schedules, water temperatures? Do they provide moonlight? What do they feed them? My scolies seem to just wither and die, but that may be borer muscles or just vermetids…

Dude, that was awesome, thanks for showing. Question - I didn't see any algae eating critters in those tanks, how are they controlling algae? Thanks again.

How many babies per egg??

How can I be a part of this? This is my passion.

There's 5 coral farms around here. Interfish is by far the most advanced in this field.

Need someone to identify a baby coral in my last video

Normal regular hobbyist will never be able to get any of those corals. Greed and money will always dominate. Look at biota and all the empty promises about a $60 yellow tang