Electro calcification, coloration. Corals.

[guserto4]

What?!

http://youtu.be/2qZbpwWWarQ

About 12 minutes in there is an architect (I'm one too) that came up with this idea to use metal cages and electric current to grow coral faster. Just who the heck do these architects think they are?! Invasively spreading into other realms not specifically concerning their formal educations like the lionfish of the Caribbean... Lol. (I literally rotflmao when they said it was an architect, of course it was a GD architect).

The video says faster growth and better coloration so of course... true to form, I'm immediately curious about this method in a closed tank system...

Anyone heard of such an experiment?? Success?! Or do I have to try and not electrocute myself getting sps to rock out with faster growth and better colors??

 

[PhaneSoul]

I read about this a few months ago. very interesting to say the least.

 

[codyreed29]

Well first off titanium whatever metal ain't going to be cheap and running a current to a metal frag rack ain't to tough.

I got a small 20l to try it out but where am I going to get titanium special metal coated screen.

Also having to build a frag rack of metal. In a small confined space is probably going to have to be made of stainless steel. And then how much current in a small tank you probably o nly need a volt or 2 which would be safe and one idea put the net in the sump and the other negative end to the stainless frag rack but get ready to be dumping a lot of calcium and kalawasser lol.

So we start at where do we get the 300 dollar chicken wire

 

[PhaneSoul]

from what I remember from the article I read months ago, im thinking over a month the electricy used equated to like a D battery or sumn like that..

 

[GnMarley]

For anyone interested these two pages have a little more information on the process

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorock
http://www.biorock.org/faq-page

And couldn't you just use stainless steel mesh for the anode?

 

[rwb500]

this has been done, a lot, both in the ocean and in peoples aquariums. its been discussed a lot on RC. i think people don't like it because one of the electrodes somehow produces chlorine gas, which is bad.