[sod]

The fact is this a a research project. If they designed it right then it would be useful to more than just writing a journal article. Biogeoggraphy is extremly important to conservation, more important than the phylogenetics themself. Information obtained from collection sites will be more useful than how they are in a persons artificial environment. This project is really wasting money and the specimens. If only they got a grant to collect the specimens then thier data can be used by many others and actually aid in coral reef conservation, ecology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and aquaculture. As it stands the data is really just phylogenetics with details on how they are kept, not very useful to anyone besides aquarist.

Call me what you will, This is just my opinion as a Biologist and researcher. I just think this is a poorly designed research project and it would be a million times more useful if the specimens came from the wild with locations and ecology information.