At your site selection, dead coral fossils are best for new nursery to start. Plus you will also need substrate for the coral fragments to grow on, so you want a readily available stockpile to make the work easy, right?

Now the easy and simple stuff, building the nursery!

Look for substrate that is not partially buried in sand as removing it will weaken the sea floor and cause a lot of sand drifting in the surge thus destroying more habitat.

Place the large coral skeletons in a long line going with the prevailing current, about 5 meters is plenty long. Then place the smaller (loke the size of your head) pieces on the sides, this reinforces the big pieces making a triangular shape rising from the sea floor. While doing this, place the red algae sides underneath. This helps then stay protected from the sun, then it’ll spread helping to bind the substrate together. This is the corals natural habit, so yes these algae are corals friend! Not the green wavy kind though. If the substrate collected doesn’t have this biological cover then allow about 3 weeks for it to occur naturally.

Once you have a biologically ready nursery bed, it’s time to attach some coral fragments!

Learn how to fragment the corals.