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.