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