Stunning Video of Arctic Corals

[thebanker]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/07/06/greenpeace.arctic.trawling/index.html

Amazing vid of soft corals and benthic life beneath the arctic ocean. Since this is a greenpeace video article, and the effects of bottom trawling are discussed, I felt that this fit in "responsible reefkeeping" since we're the stewards of our lonely planet.

Enjoy. Check out the purple and orange softies!

 

[ritter6788]

Thanks for posting this video. It's terrible that the reef is being ripped up and no one even knew about it. In the last 5 or 10 seconds of the video there is a cluster of what looks like tentacles grabbing at the water. I had something identical to that on a stalk of frogspawn and never knew what is was or seen anything similar to it.

 

[thebanker]

Isn't it incredible that these corals will thrive at polar temperatures? That purple one is sweet!

 

[teesquare]

Thanks for posting this video. It's terrible that the reef is being ripped up and no one even knew about it. In the last 5 or 10 seconds of the video there is a cluster of what looks like tentacles grabbing at the water. I had something identical to that on a stalk of frogspawn and never knew what is was or seen anything similar to it.

Those were barnacles ritter - just thought you might want to know.... We usually only see them as dead, decorative "shell" items.

 

[kingfisher62]

Those were barnacles ritter - just thought you might want to know.... We usually only see them as dead, decorative "shell" items.

I have them under the skin of my Duncans. Heard they were harmless.
I would love to have a nice cluster of larger barnacles on a rock but never have seen them in a display tank!

Nice video, thanks thebanker, I enjoyed that!

 

[teesquare]

The ones we get on our corals are smaller - a tropical cousin of the cold water ones. Cool tho!

T

 

[buckel2]

that's sweet

 

[jc-reef]

...just goes to show how LITTLE we know about our planet Earth. Cool video.

 

[ritter6788]

Those were barnacles ritter - just thought you might want to know.... We usually only see them as dead, decorative "shell" items.

Thanks. It only lasted about 3 months in my tank.

 

[uhuru]

thanks for sharing. I'm gonna x-post this in the NPS forum.

 

[thebanker]

Definitely good stuff for the NPS crew, since nothing living under arctic ice is photosynthetic!

ritter - on occasion I'll bring home an oyster shell covered in live barnacles from a local sushi restaurant. The barnacles last about 1 day in my tank, because my fish & hermits will ravage them. I guess they taste really good to my fish.

 

[uhuru]

nassarius snails will eat them too if they are on the sandbed... I have hitchhikers on my gorgonians though that are still alive after a year

 

[Aquabacs]

Beautiful video!

Mike

 

[Canadian Reefer]

sweet video

 

[schatzi]

THAT, is amazing!

 

[WT_JayJay]

makes me wana make the new tank a non-photo coral tank only even more!