Myths....?
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Boomer
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The issue here Mike and Nikki is to inform people what bristle worms are. Feather dusters are bristle worms, fireworms are bristle worms, spaghetti worms are bristle worms, etc.. They are all polychaetes and bristleworm is their common name.
Nikki
I guess you're right about the SPS feeding
They so called not needing to feed is a myth from many years ago when corals were not understood. Corals and anemones where based on what where called P/R ratios (photosynthesis/respiration rates). Researches stated that some had values of above 1 (or 100), so one with 1.25 or 125, received 125 % of its daily needs from sun light. However, these values were never corrected for the excessive mucous they produce, so in later years it was corrected. All now that I have seen now are below 1 or 100 %. I think they are now called CZAR values. Many reefers have used these old values, stating that only light was needed. I was was a dickhead about it
Humm, so why do they come out at night to feed I know, they are protecting themselves from all those dangerous and deadly plankton So get them out of your tak NOW !
Nikki
I guess you're right about the SPS feeding
They so called not needing to feed is a myth from many years ago when corals were not understood. Corals and anemones where based on what where called P/R ratios (photosynthesis/respiration rates). Researches stated that some had values of above 1 (or 100), so one with 1.25 or 125, received 125 % of its daily needs from sun light. However, these values were never corrected for the excessive mucous they produce, so in later years it was corrected. All now that I have seen now are below 1 or 100 %. I think they are now called CZAR values. Many reefers have used these old values, stating that only light was needed. I was was a dickhead about it
Humm, so why do they come out at night to feed I know, they are protecting themselves from all those dangerous and deadly plankton So get them out of your tak NOW !
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Well Boomer those plankton can be nasty, lol. I think its safe to say that most SPS with good MH lighting get about 85 to maybe 90% of their food from light. But thier are other things beyond what the zoox can provide that a coral needs. I have seen a few different approaches on how to figure it out, some based on polyps dencity, some on tissue and so on. They have a few means of food capture, slime netting, direct absorbsion through tissue and capture (to a point, lol)
Wow czar's..your dating yourself
Mike
Wow czar's..your dating yourself
Mike
Boomer
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CZAR = Coral -Zoozanthellae -Autotropic- Respiration rate
See Muscatine, 1985 PCRC-5,6, pp-119-124
or Sorokin, Coral Reef Ecology
No they are not here yet, still waiting and I think we will be waiting forever
See Muscatine, 1985 PCRC-5,6, pp-119-124
or Sorokin, Coral Reef Ecology
No they are not here yet, still waiting and I think we will be waiting forever
Yea I remember when I got my original it took forever then to.
This is a pretty good read on how it works, itsa little detailed though
http://www.fiu.edu/~goldberg/2002b.pdf
Mike
This is a pretty good read on how it works, itsa little detailed though
http://www.fiu.edu/~goldberg/2002b.pdf
Mike
aquariumdebacle
electrolyte addict
My refugium will feed my tank, only if i feed my refugium plankton
Boomer
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Mike, I just pointed that out one another thread here a couple of days ago Raising the Sr will have much more of an effect than rasing Ca.
Raising the Sr will have much more of an effect than rasing Ca.
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Boomer
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Mojo
Sorokin, Coral Reef Ecology
Yea I remember when I got my original it took forever then to.
I have one but weeks ago I ordered one for you and Nikki. You must have missed that thread :lol:
Sorokin, Coral Reef Ecology
Yea I remember when I got my original it took forever then to.
I have one but weeks ago I ordered one for you and Nikki. You must have missed that thread :lol:
Boomer
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Well, I know he has lost it...........the other one Nikki
BlennyBabe
Rachel
Garlic will cure ich.
I think most of those cause and effect things are usually off.
sure there may be a correlation, but its not usually so cut and dry as garlic causes ich to die. or garlic causes fish to resist ich.
I think most of those cause and effect things are usually off.
sure there may be a correlation, but its not usually so cut and dry as garlic causes ich to die. or garlic causes fish to resist ich.
gman0526
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LR density vs. pds. per gallon.
Scooterman
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or your cell phone while pumping gas will blow you up!
