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good thread guys and girls...i did read most of the RC thread linked here...looks like Ron got stepped on, thats what happens when you venture too far out of your scope of practice. little growing pains are sometimes needed so your head doesnt get too big for the rest of your body...
ok, i admit i did not read the entire thread over there but enough to get what they were getting at. so i will add some things about how coralline benefits a our little reefs. they might have been brought up already in that thread or maybe here, though maybe not
. that thread only went into biofiltration so i will not go there here. as far as i can tell they really only went into biofiltration as is relates to rock substrates where alga and bacterias grow and blah blah blah...
the biggest benefit, IMO, is that it provide shealter for for critters to grow aswell as a food source to feed on, which inturn increases critter populations providing a steady source of food for bigger critters. coralline also prevents erosion of rock by protecting it against the shearing damage water currents cause and yes shearing happens in our tanks not just the ocean, rock slides in our tanks are not always a result of burrowing fish or bulldozing snails. coralline gives you some protection against that. it also acts as "cement", it collects loose particles and clumbs them together, rock work included, that might otherwise end up floating up into in the water column. some coralline acts as "fertilizer" for many larvae, coral and crustasians alike, it gives rise to reef funua...plus all that biofilm gradient transporting of nutrients stuff they talk about in the linked thread. plus more just can not think of them right now:coffee: