Florida Keys unknowingly found a way to recreate corals 40 times faster than the natural environment

Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration in Florida (USA) has unknowingly discovered how to recreate artificial corals 40 times faster than natural speed, opening up prospects for recovery. recovered hundreds of years old coral reefs with only a few years.

David Vaughan, a coral restoration project scientist and scientist, said that once he removed the retired horny coral from the bottom of the coral reef tank. He accidentally broke this coral branch, causing it to break into many small pieces. A miracle happened when only a few weeks later, each piece of coral grew back to its original size before it was broken, an amazing speed if it was normal, it took three years to grow from tiny up to that size.

To corroborate this finding, the team tried a similar way - the method they called microfragmentation - with all the corals they have in the Florida Keys. As a result, after cutting the coral into many pieces, they grow very quickly, speeding up to 40 times higher than when they grow.

When trying to cut a coral tree the size of a golf ball into 20 to 100 pieces and then rearing them, after only a few months all of them have regenerated to the same size. As a result, they were able to grow 600 corals in just one afternoon, whereas before it took six years to do it.

It is known that a coral population is as big as a 4-seater car needs 200 - 500 years to develop into. More specifically, when you have chopped coral after recovering with a golf ball in contact with each other, they quickly realize it is your "brother" and proceed to merge together into one. larger population. This makes it possible for the center to grow giant coral populations in just a few years to ten years, without losing hundreds or even thousands of years as a natural development.

Thanks to this random discovery, the coral conservation center in Florida says they are willing to share their knowledge and experience with all coral conservation centers around the world, so that reefs can be preserved everywhere. precious coral for future generations.