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A coral restoration strategy involves growing corals in a laboratory setting

small colonies of mesophotic branching coral being fed with a pipette.

A common coral restoration strategy involves growing corals in a laboratory setting before returning them to the seafloor. But to keep mesophotic corals healthy and thriving in a lab, we need to know what they eat. Unlike shallow-water corals, which are known for their symbiotic algae, there has been relatively little research on the feeding habits of these deeper-water species… until now.