Coral collection and maintenance
In 2018, we purchased six colonies of Pocillopora acuta from the Onna Village Fisheries Cooperative in Okinawa, Japan. Coral colonies were transferred to the OIST Marine Science Section at Seragaki, where they were kept in a 3000-L outdoor tank supplied with flowing, sand-filtered natural seawater for over six months before the onset of polyp bail-out experiments.