Alternate coral feeding pathway

[Dingo]

The news seems to be just full of coral articles lately. According to this article, in addition to Zoox, corals contain symbiotic Cyanobacteria that provide corals with useable Nitrogen. That would certainly explain why some corals never seem to need direct feeding in captivity. I never quite bought the "They are eating from the DSB, you just can't see it" theory.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=6&u=/nm/20040812/sc_nm/science_coral_dc

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Great article , thanks Dingo!

 

[Maxx]

Very Interesting......glad to see your still here Dingo...thought maybe you nano-kids had fallen into a hole or something...

Nick

 

[Dingo]

DrDrew is one of us. He spams the photo forum all the time. Posting is a winter sport, it seems.

 

[mojoreef]

Hiya Dingo.
Yep you would be hard pressed to find an organism that doesnt have some form of cyano in it.

Mike

 

[Crakeur]

Originally posted by Maxx
Very Interesting......glad to see your still here Dingo...thought maybe you nano-kids had fallen into a hole or something...

Nick

I've been busy honing my acting skills for my role in the upcoming remake of the Willy Wonka flick. That's right folks, I'm going to be Oompah Loompah #2.

Here's the pic that got me my audition:

 

[Dingo]

Oompa, Loompa, doom-pa-dee-do
I have a perfect puzzle for you ...

 

[kennerd]

I've been doing some more "private auditioning". One of those "Working Vacation Internships" of sorts.

 

[Witfull]

wheres Caja?....come on girl,,,check in!!

 

[Maxx]

ROFL....
Y'all are killin me....
Nick

 

[drdrew]

i've just been relaxing, you know, letting my hair grow out...

 

[nigle]

Oi!

Last I read in Bornemans book zooxanthellae is 'brown' and has NO fluorescents, its other 'thingies' that floreses, not the zooxanthellae, did I read the artical incorrectly or did they state that :

" rock shelves and often emits a fluorescent glow, typical of the algae known as zooxanthellae"

I'm not sure that that is correct?

Comments!

Cheers!
nigle
!~!

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Originally posted by nigle
zooxanthellae

How do you pronounce that?! :smirk: :columbo:

 

[mojoreef]

Nigle zoos dont glow or flourese, its the pigments in them that do. Same thing applies for the corals themselves. the corals have pigments in thier tissue also. Many things under water have pigment protiens that will glow.

Mike

 

[Dingo]

You can't expect them to get everything right, can you? I doubt that most of the orange you see is caused by bacteria, either. You probably only see it if you put your corals in a blender, or something.

However, it is interesting that there is another symbiosis that provides needed Nirtrogen, as well as the sugars provided by the Zoox.

Nice ears, Drew. I'd hate to see what a Q-tip looks like coming out of those. Did you have a face-lift or something? You look different.

 

[drdrew]

-don't put your corals in the blender dingo.

 

[middletonmark]

Originally posted by Craig Manoukian
How do you pronounce that?! :smirk: :columbo:

Easy

zooxanthellae:

Zoe - Zan - Thell [rhymes with shell] - Ee.

No, I'm not a linguist [obviously] ... but it's a heck of a lot easier than Pocillapora. Or figuring out which pronounciation of Acropora is `right'. [neither ]

 

[drdrew]

you're very cunning.

 

[Dingo]

Originally posted by drdrew
-don't put your corals in the blender dingo.

Awww. You're no fun.

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Thanks MM, must have been absent that day in Latin class!