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The Pros & Cons of Hitchhikers in the Reef Aquarium, part 4

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By Bob Fenner

 

 

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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