Coral Energy?

[nayrgaijin]

So let's say your lights turn on, lucky today? All your polyps open! Very lucky!

What kind of energy does this take? For all coral, is it the same? Would your corals grow faster if your lights never turned off? Do they required 'sleep'?

At the moment the only knowledge I have pertaining to these questions would be they require a 6hr photosynthetic period. At least I believe that's correct. haha

Thanks for any help!

 

[TopNotchCorals]

I actually did some bulb changing last weekend and left my reefkeeper lite in the "on" mode instead of "auto" mode and went out and didn't come home until around 2am.My lights are set to be fully off at 8pm so they were on for 6 hours past the regular set time and I could tell by the looks of the coral and the extra algae film on the acrylic that my tank definitely needs to get some sleep.We all know that our corals like to feed at night and thats when they fully extend their polyps to feed,so if the lights are on I think it throws a lot of things off and adds a lot of unwanted extra algae's which leads to other unwanted elements.I hope this was helpful nayrgaijin:bigsmile:

 

[nayrgaijin]

Yeah I knew algae would be an issue, but man it would so be worth it if my corals grew 4x's faster! haha

 

[TopNotchCorals]

Yeah I knew algae would be an issue, but man it would so be worth it if my corals grew 4x's faster! haha

I agree 100% maybe Balco can come up with some kind of Coralroids:tongue:.....legally that is

 

[nayrgaijin]

Coral steroids!

.....I meen 'supplement' haha

 

[CoralBandit]

Yes all corals use the same energy to open their polyps its ATP or a high energy phosphate in some way shape or form probably using a type of actin and myosin to open and contract just like your cells. As per the 24hours I would assume it depends on the corals ability to neutralize the free radicals and toxic oxygen species produced by the algae. A non photosynthetic coral could probably care less if the light is on or off where as one that relies heavily on photosynthesis would need the cycle to be regulated indirectly because the algae in their tissues themselves need a dark cycle. I dont know too much about invertebrate physiology but thats some general stuff so its probably along those lines... hope that helps and good luck with the roids.... they will decompose before they becomes of any use, in Italy they tried to give corals a form of GH but in turn they found out it decomposes so rapidly all they were doing was giving the corals specific amino acids which is in turn how the dosing amino acid hype came to the US. I think Italy called it the "Blue Coral Method"

 

[stedfast82]

+1 bayreefer