The plastic boxes are used to grow the mother colonies so they can not fall into each other. Plastic bud vases are used to grow the cuttings. The bud vases are held in plastic racks. These racks can be used to grow many other types of corals such as soft corals and mushrooms. Soft corals need less light than sps coral so they can be grown on the lower racks.
Mushrooms do very well on the bottom rack.
These pictures show the cuttings growing in plastic bud vases. We have been using concrete plugs to grow the cuttings in our research. The reef plugs grow coralline algae very well and they are heavy enough to hold the corals up after they start growing. We often grow the sps corals by using VHO lighting. This lighting increases the growth rate as well as defines more color.