The coral adventure began in 1989 with the collaboration of Professor Jean Jaubert of Nice University. At that date, part of a live coral reef he took himself from the Red Sea with help of a technician from the Aquarium was very carefully transferred to a 40,000 litre tank built for that purpose, using the "MICROCEAN" water purification process.
The environment thus reconstructed not only houses superb fish, but also the usual flora of the reef: algae, hard and soft corals, sponges, annelids, crustaceans, echinoderms, mollusks. Today, this unique experience has turned out to be profitable. Growing continuously, corals are propagated by cuttings. This delicate operation led to the settlement of a series of new tropical tanks with several reconstructed reefs of living coral. The present collection includes over 70 coral species.
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