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[Nationalreefbuilders]

We are setting up a research tank to research heat resistant corals. We have been in the lab setting for a little over a year and not We have to start a saltwater aquarium to see if we can be successful at raising these heat resistant corals. I'll post more about our process in another thread, but one thing I'd like to ask is where can one buy live rock? And which is best, live, life, or dry rock? I'll be honest, we don't know a lot about the aquarium side of this. Some help would be so appreciated. Thanks guys and look forward to learning more.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Sounds intriguing. Best wishes.

 

[fishguy242]

hi ,welcome to the reef...
start a build thread ,so we can follow along...

 

[mdb_talon]

Welcome! I honestly dont mean this to sound like a jerk I am just curious about the study and what you are doing, but wouldnt a requirement for such a study be people who have experience raising coral under ideal circumstances? I mean i assume this research will include increasing the temp to determine impacts, but without someone who has experience it seems this would be a very difficult project?

In any casetons of people here going to be happy to help.

 

[Jekyl]

We are setting up a research tank to research heat resistant corals. We have been in the lab setting for a little over a year and not We have to start a saltwater aquarium to see if we can be successful at raising these heat resistant corals. I'll post more about our process in another thread, but one thing I'd like to ask is where can one buy live rock? And which is best, live, life, or dry rock? I'll be honest, we don't know a lot about the aquarium side of this. Some help would be so appreciated. Thanks guys and look forward to learning more.

You're trying to go from crawling to full sprint on the coral experiment. In your case getting established live rock would be best. Coral can only be grown with strict attention to parameters, environment and a mature system. Starting with all dry rock would take months before coral will really thrive. Best to read some of the stickies at the top of the forum and watch a ton of BRS videos on youtube.

 

[Dcloser12]

Your experiment troubles me. You intend to setup a tank that will take a year to stabilize inorder to test coral? The water conditions alone will fluctuate so much in the first year I don't see how any data could be usable as the variables change and any spike in nutrients stress the coral. The bacteria alone may not be heat resistant which adds another variable. Live rock or dry rock, doesn't matter the tank still needs to cycle and adapt for the bio load you personally add. I guess I just don't understand the process behind the study

 

[Nationalreefbuilders]

Welcome! I honestly dont mean this to sound like a jerk I am just curious about the study and what you are doing, but wouldnt a requirement for such a study be people who have experience raising coral under ideal circumstances? I mean i assume this research will include increasing the temp to determine impacts, but without someone who has experience it seems this would be a very difficult project?

In any casetons of people here going to be happy to help.

I have experience in biology and micro science. My experience is in microalgae not coral life. We have been researching the microalgae that lives inside corals and trying to find a microalgae that can withstand higher Temps. Your correct about doing studys where we will slowly increase the temp as we raise corals that have a heat resistant microalgae. My experience isn't in aquiriums but that doesn't stop me from learning the aquirium side and trying to help. I don't take your questions as hateful as you are just curious I guess. Our oceans need us all to get involved and I'm just trying my part. We do have guys with experience with coral aquiriums, but I'm trying to learn that aspect myself. Anyway, iv studied microalgae for other reasons and the coral issues spiked my interest so I got involved. You don't have to be some huge foundation with top scientists to help. Normal every day people help all the time. More should in my opinion. We only have 1 planet and we all need to learn how it works and learn how to take care of it. It's what we leave our children.

 

[Nationalreefbuilders]

Your experiment troubles me. You intend to setup a tank that will take a year to stabilize inorder to test coral? The water conditions alone will fluctuate so much in the first year I don't see how any data could be usable as the variables change and any spike in nutrients stress the coral. The bacteria alone may not be heat resistant which adds another variable. Live rock or dry rock, doesn't matter the tank still needs to cycle and adapt for the bio load you personally add. I guess I just don't understand the process behind the study

Your experiment troubles me. You intend to setup a tank that will take a year to stabilize inorder to test coral? The water conditions alone will fluctuate so much in the first year I don't see how any data could be usable as the variables change and any spike in nutrients stress the coral. The bacteria alone may not be heat resistant which adds another variable. Live rock or dry rock, doesn't matter the tank still needs to cycle and adapt for the bio load you personally add. I guess I just don't understand the process behind the study

No, I'm not sure where you misunderstood but that's isn't what I said at all. I said we have been studying microalgae for the past year. Not coral. We are now at a point that we have found several microalgae that can handle higher Temps. So we plan to introduce them to coral larvae and then slowly raise the temperature to make sure they do not shed from their coral partners. Sorry if I didn't explain well enough.