Zooxanthellae Transplant w/ Bleached Gigantea- Video
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CoralsAddiction
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That was interesting. I look forward to your next update.
I'm gonna feed him a Gig tent off your Gig Minh. I almost hate to do it because now I wonder if the mag tent is gonna work. Either way, I'd like to update in 1 month. I'll let you guys decide if I will feed the Gig tent or wait to see if the mag tent will do it.
Let me know.
Let me know.
I know there's different species, but do we have any good documentation as to why some species may not work where others would.?
For example:
Do corals, anemones, or Jelly fish all have different Zooxanthellae species? Is it known that every anemone has it's own species of Zooxanthellae? I need to read up on this. Now i'm getting very interested.
For example:
Do corals, anemones, or Jelly fish all have different Zooxanthellae species? Is it known that every anemone has it's own species of Zooxanthellae? I need to read up on this. Now i'm getting very interested.
Well, after doing some research of my own I became very intrigued with these symbiotic relationships. Some species can host a number of different symbiont types. In fact, I found that there's a classification of symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium) composed of 9 major clades. Within each clade, there's evidence that suggest at least 160 distinct Symbiodinium types exist. I also learned that a single symbiont type can be found within multiple hosts. Although this supports that a Magnifica tentacle may indeed work for the transplant, I feel it's best to stick with the same species of anemone due to external parameters in the ocean. At the time, I didn't want to mess with Minh's nem. Anyway, these external parameters such as light intensity, temperature, location, depth, and water clairity have all been found to play a role in these symbiotic relationships. We know that Magnifica are not "usually" found in the same depths, light intensity, or even in the same location as Gigantea. Diversity of relationships... from specificity to flexibility Symbiodinium types have been identified to establish non-random relationships with host species. So just how broad is the diversity of symbiosis with Symbiodinium? That's a great question which got me looking into genetic diversity, diversity of relationships, specificity of the relationship, and flexibility of the relationship. I wanted to know exactly what kind of interactions took place between the partners? This got me looking into metabolic interactions. Then I looked at carbon, nitrogen, and Phosphate uptake and fixation. Then I started to wonder just how close this relationship actually was.?? I wondered how much each partner benefited from the other in terms of survival. How did the hosts and symbionts communicate with each other? Long story short, it's very in-depth and I'd like to understand and study it more. For now, I will feed the bleached gig another tentacle from my other gig. Look for the video this Friday night.
OrionN
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Loosing a few tentacles isn't going to hurt my Gigantea. Please take a few off of him. You can just put a piece of shrimp to him and pull away. A few of the tentacle will come with it, then just feed it directly to the bleached anemone. Really easy when these extremely sticky anemones involved.
CoralsAddiction
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I too thought it was a little unorthodox to use magnifica tentacle for transplant instead of gig. However, given that the gig looked ok in the video other than being bleached I did not raise the issue. While I agree that it might help using gig tentacles I also see no harm in waiting to see how the original method works out. Best of luck.
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