A small quote from the above article...please read the whole article.. BOLD are mine!!
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Borneman came to the Keys and carried the 499 specimens to Texas. There were questions raised about the size of some specimens - species such as brain coral, mountain star coral and blushing star coral, among others - Borneman removed from a storage facility. Sanctuary staff concluded it could have been a verbal misunderstanding.
In February 2005, Borneman alerted the sanctuary staff that was barred from the commercial facility where the sanctuary specimens were held.
Then-Sanctuary Superintendent Billy Causey formally demanded the specimens be sent to the University of Florida facility. An inventory showed 487 colonies were received. Some loss was expected, said the report.
“It's important to note that these were corals which would have been destroyed in the Truman Annex work if they had not rescued,” Heck said.
There was no indication that any of the research corals had ever been improperly offered for sale, the staff noted.
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I believed that everyone can now understand... Not only the corals were saved by Borneman but he also was the one who alerted the sanctuary when problems started with the facility... The loses were minimal...
Please hear the voice of a hobbyist from the other side of the world...the voice of someone unaware of the politics of the hobby... this thread is bad for RAG and not for EB who repeatedly proved his value to hobbyists all around the world.