Does music promote growth?

[thebanker]

Music does encourage coral growth. When I listen to music, I feel better about doing water changes and as we know, water change = better tank, which also means better growth.

Interesting way of interpreting the question! Very true as well.

It wont make a difference If nothing else i think it may annoy the coral if the bass is really bad.

I don't know, any normal amount of bass from a home stereo system may not be enough to annoy corals, unless the whole tank is really vibrating, which would be a bad idea anyway. In nature, corals need to deal with crashing of waves, and the bass from those is WAY more intense than what you'll get out of your home stereo, in most cases.

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I'm actually interested in a more serious study on this. A friend of mine who grows a few "terrestrial plants" indoors swears that playing classical music makes them grow faster.

 

[T Diddy]

I think there was an episode on Mythbusters concerning growth rates of terrestrial plants. They don't care for heavy metal. That whole music thing causing growth response probably stems from people talking/singing to their plants...they like the CO2 from exhalation

 

[thebanker]

I think there was an episode on Mythbusters concerning growth rates of terrestrial plants. They don't care for heavy metal. That whole music thing causing growth response probably stems from people talking/singing to their plants...they like the CO2 from exhalation

I remember that episode. I found this on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2004_season)#Talking_to_Plants

Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5 Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos playing endlessly looping recordings (as having the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive and one negative inducing soundtrack), a fifth with classical music and a sixth with intense death metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with the recordings of speech grew better than the control, regardless of whether such talk was kind or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the recording of classical music grew better, while the plants in the greenhouse with the recording of intense death metal grew best of all despite somewhat dying, because the battery died on one of the timers that was watering the plants.

 

[T Diddy]

:thumbsup:I stand corrected...thanks for that Banker