Since people are asking, Project DIBS is also gearing up to do coral breeding research soon and it will be aimed at the hobbyist level, attempting to breed corals in our tanks and ideally growing out the coral in dedicated rearing tanks (which might be acceptable in a
frag tank as well).
The first two corals that are going to be attempted are:
Collaborative Breeding Effort #2: Manicina areolata (Linnaeus, 1758) Collaborative Breeding Effort #3: Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Manicina are hard to get in the hobby, but Pocillopora are relatively easy to obtain. Everyone is invited to follow along and in the case of Pocillopora it should be relatively easy to actually attempt in most reef tanks (although getting the corals to settle in large numbers will require some extra effort).
If anyone has any questions, just let me know. Personally I'll be starting my breeding efforts in Jan/Feb of next year, but people can start gearing up now.
Brian
