The Coral Nurseries are set!
This is it! All four of our coral nurseries are finally in the water! It took us less than a month to build the nurseries and place them in the water, it was a mission but we did it. Aishah swimming with cement block attach to a buoy Leo and Chloe setting a nursery underwater The happy happy happy team after the work done! The nurseries hold mainly branching Acropora coral fragments but also some Porites and Pavona for a total of 128 fragments. The nurseries need intense cleaning to ensure the health and growth of the coral fragments. The design of the nurseries called line nurseries enables quick cleaning and reduces sedimentation on the fragments. We’ve been cleaning the nurseries every week by snorkeling/freediving to avoid the overgrowth of competitive algae on the cable ties and to maintain the nurseries structures clean (pipes, ropes). The four line nurseries holding 128 coral fragments A Porites fragment A Pavona fragment A Acropora fragm