Guess Where I Am....???? Back In Indo!!!! CRAZIEST Corals EVER!!!!
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I'm very envious.
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Beyond crazy guys!! My last day on island. I choose corals in vats here when dark with blue flashlight. I eat maxima for dinner! Craziest corals yet today! I got a chalice very similar to yellow bandit on my site but pink rim. I was like WOW when I saw it! I also find an unknown species like a diaseris plate but encrust with a green body pink eyes and pink rim. I got a rising sun convict type chalice with orange in it. I found a black with orange polyp cyphastrea, black with red polyp green rim cyphastrea, green body orange eye orange rim chalice! I can't wait to show you all pics!
Eat lobster last night . Octopus and bananna this morning. Sleep in hut and bath in bucket. lol I did tons of hard core deco dives. We float coral up in basket with bag of air. The people on this island take care of me. They are very friendly. I'm the first foreigner ever on this island. Kids crowd around me and touch me. Never seen a white person. Never see a person that has hair on their chest. No one has chest hair here. lol Small boat across the ocean at night with no lights. Hardcore!!! I use quality dive gear they use compressor on the boat with 300 feet of air hose that 2 guys breath from down there! CRAZY!
Eat lobster last night . Octopus and bananna this morning. Sleep in hut and bath in bucket. lol I did tons of hard core deco dives. We float coral up in basket with bag of air. The people on this island take care of me. They are very friendly. I'm the first foreigner ever on this island. Kids crowd around me and touch me. Never seen a white person. Never see a person that has hair on their chest. No one has chest hair here. lol Small boat across the ocean at night with no lights. Hardcore!!! I use quality dive gear they use compressor on the boat with 300 feet of air hose that 2 guys breath from down there! CRAZY!
sexycorals
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Man that sounds crazy.. Both the corals and The story about the people and place. I'm too scared to go dive .. Maybe I'll grow me a pair one day. Have a safe trip back. :smile:
nonstopfish
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Where about in Indo are you diving? Obviously won't know the exact island, but the region? Just spent 2 months traveling Indo diving all over the place. I don't get to bring stuff home tho :sad:
Sounds like an amazing trip Jason. I was imagining you devouring maximas and octopi mid-dive, and then continuing on to find the next gem. I hope all of these new corals become common in the care of aquarists, rather than known to only a few and then perhaps soon lost forever. You know you need a dive buddy, not just some elongated snorkelers.
renoeb
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I'm sure i'll receive some crap for this, but I think this hobby should really start relying more on aquaculture and even mariculture.. Fact is harvesting like this is destroying our reefs. We should open our eyes to this and use the technology we have to start sustaining our hobby, responsibly. Otherwise it will be gone, just as quickly as the coral reefs themselves.
I'd be far more pleased to see you setting up a professional aquaculture system.
I'd be far more pleased to see you setting up a professional aquaculture system.
Fatmike92
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Im all for it! but All ill say is you gotta get new stuff from somewhere and then grow it out
Shpongled
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+1! As much as us hobbyists hate to hear such a thing, I couldn't agree more with you.
renoeb
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Thank you. It really hurts me to think that our fish tanks may soon become living museums of what once was...
Aquaculture is the future if we want to sustain this hobby, plain and simple.
Aquaculture is the future if we want to sustain this hobby, plain and simple.
jdl513
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I see it as a benefit to the reefs he visits.
The typical way (which I do not like at all) is to have hundreds of random colonies harvested with little regard to their commercial viability as a coral people will want.
This results in a lot of waste as handful will make the cut.
With Jason going to the reef instead of bringing the reef to him he is picking pieces that have the best chance of being desirable in the hobby thus sparing the rest from the garbage can.
These pieces will be aquacultured back here in the states and frags sold to us hobbyists when ready.
My hope is he only takes a small portion of each coral he brings home so the parent colony can continue to grow wild.
Taking the entire colony leaving nothing behind would be irresponsible.
The typical way (which I do not like at all) is to have hundreds of random colonies harvested with little regard to their commercial viability as a coral people will want.
This results in a lot of waste as handful will make the cut.
With Jason going to the reef instead of bringing the reef to him he is picking pieces that have the best chance of being desirable in the hobby thus sparing the rest from the garbage can.
These pieces will be aquacultured back here in the states and frags sold to us hobbyists when ready.
My hope is he only takes a small portion of each coral he brings home so the parent colony can continue to grow wild.
Taking the entire colony leaving nothing behind would be irresponsible.
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Fatmike92
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Great point! Couldn't agree more Jason is there picking the best and not wasting a single thing.
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