New to salt water

Buttsnorkler · Aug 31, 2021

Hi guys I’m new to saltwater hobby. I have a 32gal bio cube what light settings would you guys recommend to grow corals. Also what food or other things that go along with that

Timfish · Aug 31, 2021

Welcome! Lots of different answers to those questions. What specific corals you're talking about matters as what one coral likes is detrimental to another coral. Here's some reading material and some videos you might find informative:

Forest ROhwer's "Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas" (kindle ~$10, paperback ~$17) Best introduction to the conflicting roles of DOC in reef systems.

Coral farming: effects of light, water motion and artificial foods

Improved coral cultivation will facilitate the reduction of wild harvesting, reef restoration, preservation of biodiversity, and the use of corals as model experimental organisms. In this study, we examine species-specific responses in growth and

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Comparing the capacity of five different dietary treatments to optimise growth and nutritional composition in two scleractinian corals

Developing an optimal heterotrophic feeding regime has the potential to improve captive coral growth and health. This study evaluated the efficacy of three exogenous diets: Artemia nauplii (ART), a commercially available coral diet (Reef Roids) (RR), and a novel, micro-bound diet (ATF), against...

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Coral Coloration and Incident Light: A Photographic Essay

Departments of Chemistry and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802

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"Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas"

Changing Seas - Mysterious Microbes

Nitrogen cycling in hte coral holobiont

BActeria and Sponges

Maintenance of Coral Reef Health (refferences at the end)

Optical Feedback Loop in Colorful Coral Bleaching

Richard Ross What's up with phosphate"

Since you're new you should be aware many pictures of corals you see will have used filters to bring out colors not normally seen. This article shows how it's done.

Photographing Fluorescence in Aquarium Corals

By Sanjay Joshi [wonderplugin_slider id="2"] Every reef hobbyist is awed by the magic of coral fluorescence where spectacular colors mysteriously appear a

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