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[Ron Reefman]

The following posts were in the 'hardware' forum and I thought I'd give it a try over here as well:

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showpost.php?p=21828350&postcount=375


Originally Posted by Lassef View Post
@zachts and marc price: I would totally agree with you if it not were corals we talk about. If we only has to deal with reflecting colours - your right but IMO around 60 -70 % of the coluor we see in corals is not reflecting colours - they are instead created by fluorescence.

Sincerely Lasse
Lasse,
I'm not disagreeing with you, but when you say,"...but IMO around 60 -70 % of the coluor we see in corals is not reflecting colours - they are instead created by fluorescence." I'd like some documentation rather than just "IMO". Can you link us to any articles that confirm your opinion?
Thanks,
Ron


Anybody know of any studies or science done on reflected light vs emitted light from our corals?

 

[dkeller_nc]

I'm not sure if there's a lot of scientific literature documenting the quantity of light absorbed and re-emitted by corals, but there's quite a discussion with a number of footnotes about green and red fluorescent proteins in corals in the book "The Reef Aquarium Vol 3" by Sprung and Delbeek.

It appears that most of the species of photosynthetic reef-building corals have quantifiable fluorescent proteins in their tissues, but that's just the species that have been formally examined, which is just a handful of the thousands of species on a reef.