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/The Conscientious Reef
Aquarist
The Pros & Cons of Hitchhikers
in the Reef Aquarium, part 4
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Part 2, Part 3,
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A "bonus" frame/cell I'm thinking of adding... if
there's time, deemed sufficient to be of interest. The
surprising reversed situation between what we are most collectively
familiar with as land organisms ourselves... That much of the
"fixed carbon" life about us is in the stages of adult,
developmental age... Whereas, the bulk of biota in the seas is in
the form of larvae, sex cells... Hence the profusion of
filter-feeding species, and their abundance.
Secondly the vast difference in replacement rates between land and
reef environments. Aquatic ones are far more robust and vigorous,
"bouncing back" and restructuring often in months at what
would take years on land.
The pertinence of this to aquarists? A few things... the likelihood
of miraculous rates of reproduction in pest organisms... and
secondly, the remarkable tenacity of the life in the frail,
changeable bits of water we call aquariums. |
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