Due to their limited size, juvenile corals are more fragile
to suboptimal culture conditions compared with semiadult or adult corals. Therefore, it is important that the
coral recruits quickly reach a larger size and therefore
become more robust. Food may play an essential role in
this respect. Petersen et al.(2008) showed that the provision of freshly hatched Artemianauplii to early settlers of
Acropora tenuisand Favia fragumincreased their growth
ten times compared with the control and therefore reduced
the hatchery time significantly