Acropora Eating Flatworms Found in the Wild For the First Time
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Young Frankenstein
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hmmmmm they were never in natures reefs ? i find that hard to believe LOL
Troylee
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Yup^^^ I was always first in line at my lfs to cherry pick and I got 1 or 2 colonies every time infested... I just tossed them most of the time..:sad:
saltwaternoob
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I call BS I bet there are no bristle worms in the wild either.
gmoney243
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they didnt say they were never in the wild. they just havent found them before because they are so hard to see and they dont pull out big colonies and blast them with water and sieve the water to find very tiny creatures. and even in aquaria you dont see them till you start looking because your corals looks funny or you did a dip to find them so why in the wild with natural predators that keep the numbers down to an average of 3 AEFW per colony do you think they would have been seen without specifically looking for them. its obvious you didnt read the article.
Dowtish
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There has been no shortage of sarcasm in the responses, which I can appreciate......But The point is, if they know where some of them are specifically located in the wild, they can possibly observe them there to see what naturally preys on them. This could be a good thing.
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LeoLionFish
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^+1. Great post Chris!!
Acrokeeper3729
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I agree with you all, but I would think that anywhere you can find acropora in the wild, you can also find AEFW. No matter what that article says, this is not the first time they have been found in the wild. Perhaps its the first time anyone tried to study them in the wild, but they are found in the wild all the time. They found an average of 3 on every acro colony they picked. Its crazy to me that after all these years, no marine biologists have ever studied them in the wild.
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It's sad no marine biologists have studied them in the wild.
Maybe it's been ignored because it's more than likley a natural predation situation in the wild and the remedy is most likely not something that someone can create and sell in a bottle?
Maybe it's been ignored because it's more than likley a natural predation situation in the wild and the remedy is most likely not something that someone can create and sell in a bottle?
