Dana Riddle continues his intensive exploration of coral nutrition.
Dana Riddle is not a lady?
Shucks
When they say "nitrogen fixing bacteria" they mean cyano right?
That has some implications for people who kill outbreaks of it with chemicals like Boyd's ChemiClean, or erythromycin, I would think.
TBH inasmuch as I understand the article (superficial at best), it seems like a good argument for feeding a wide variety of whole seafood. Something like blender mush, or chum, has a much better chance of containing the particular amino acid that each coral needs. Whether that coral prefers the AAs from the eyeballs of a certain fish, or this clam likes the aa that a squid produced in its tentacle... it seems like youve got a better chance of getting some in the tank if you're chopping up, or buying, whole animals than you would from trying to control micro amounts of tryptophan or lycene.
I might be biased in favor of getting all the necessary AAs from a balanced diet though, I went vegetarian when I was a little kid so I got a lot of lectures about how you need to eat steak for your B12s.
The part about how quickly the supplements degrade really resonated with me. People spend an awful lot of $ on AA potions, when they could just get better lights for their primary producers
