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Stony Coral Keepers Survey Results
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1. Which of the following types of marine livestock do you keep? (Check as many as apply.)
20.7% Fishes
20.3% Stony Corals
19.5% Other Invertebrates
18.8% Soft Corals
11.4% Anemones
9.1% Giant Clams (48)
2. How often do you buy captive-bred or captive-propagated stock?
Always Sometimes Never Might In Future
Fishes 14.1 % 70.7 % 6.6 % 8.4 %
Stony Corals 39.8 % 54.3 % 4.8 % 0.9 %
Soft Corals 27.2 % 61.6 % 10.1 % 1.0 %
Anemones 17.3 % 40.0 % 30.6 % 12.0 %
Giant Clams 22.9 % 28.3 % 35.1 % 13.5 %
Other Invertebrates
8.9 % 64.3 % 18.8 % 7.9 %
3. If given a choice when buying a new stony coral, which do you prefer?
58.4% Frag
32.0% Maricultured
6.6% Wild Colony
4. Do you frag your own corals?
67.2% Yes
21.4% Would like to.
11.2% No
5. Approximately how many coral frags or corals grown from frags do you own?
32.4% 1-9 (35)
21.2% 20+ (23)
19.4% 10-19 (21)
15.7% 50+ (17)
4.6% 100+ (5)
3.7% None (4)
6. If you are aware of a petition to ban the collection and sale of 82 species of stony corals under provisions of the Endangered Species Act, what do you think?
61.3% I am not in favor of the ban.
20.7% Not sure.
14.1% I am in favor of the ban.
7. Do you think that the reef aquarium hobby should support sustainable harvests of marine fishes, corals, and other livestock?
92.3% Yes
6.7% Not sure
0.9% No
0.0% Don't care
SOURCE: Coral Magazine Stony Coral Keepers Survey, April 2010

