Author Spotlight: Advancing Coral Culture - Creating a Semi-Quantitatively Controlled Microenvironment System to Counter Current Limitations

The aim of our research is to develop an artificial microenvironment system for coral culture and study. The microenvironment in the micro-device system can at least be semi-quantitatively controlled. At the present, the existing equipment and the system used for coral culture lack precise control over temperature and other environmental factors.

Additionally, these system are open, making them susceptible to contamination from an airborne substance. Our indoor coral culture system boasts a superior control accuracy, and the microbial tightness compared to other similar system or tanks. Additionally, our system is commercially cost-effective.

Using this micro-device system, we can somehow customize the environmental parameters like temperature, strength, or metabolite concentration, which will make the coral study more quantitative and might promote the current coral research. We would like to know about longevity of corals in this artificial micro-device. Another important question that we want to address is how the artificially built-up system affects the growth process of corals in comparison to the nature environment.