Last August, the Florida Aquarium in Tampa became the first organization to successfully spawn Atlantic Ocean coral. Now they've mated them and are fostering 350 babies until they're big enough to be released. (WUSF)
But marine biologists at Tampa’s Florida Aquarium are trying to turn the tides in the coral’s favor by learning how to breed them in captivity.
Since the outbreak of the disease, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has been on a mission to rescue endangered corals like the ridged cactus species and bring them on to land to be cared for and studied by public aquariums.successfully spawn Atlantic Ocean coral “We're like Tinder and the Head Start program - we're the matchmakers and then we're also the nursery that takes care of all the babies,” said O’Neil.
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