thrillreefer
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There is a compelling and expanding body of research showing that specific microbes can dramatically improve coral health, and especially resistance to stress and related disease.
www.barrierreef.org
www.nature.com
This seems super salient to home reefkeeping, as our animals frequently experience temperature and chemical stresses due user error and equipment malfunctions. My strong suspicion is that some probiotic cocktail could eliminate a lot of coral deaths in home reefs. Anyone seen commercial products that try to address this? I don’t mean vibrant or nitrobacter, those are certainly probiotics but not thought to be directly symbiotic with corals.
There’s likely a rich dataset and resource hidden in our members’ healthy tanks right now! If only we could sequence, identify and culture the right microbes.
Breakthrough for the Reef: Probiotics proven to boost coral survival
We’re creating a future for the world’s coral reefs by protecting ocean habitats, restoring coral reefs and helping them adapt to the impacts of climate change.
www.barrierreef.org
Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation - The ISME Journal
Although the early coral reef-bleaching warning system (NOAA/USA) is established, there is no feasible treatment that can minimize temperature bleaching and/or disease impacts on corals in the field. Here, we present the first attempts to extrapolate the widespread and well-established use of...
www.nature.com
This seems super salient to home reefkeeping, as our animals frequently experience temperature and chemical stresses due user error and equipment malfunctions. My strong suspicion is that some probiotic cocktail could eliminate a lot of coral deaths in home reefs. Anyone seen commercial products that try to address this? I don’t mean vibrant or nitrobacter, those are certainly probiotics but not thought to be directly symbiotic with corals.
There’s likely a rich dataset and resource hidden in our members’ healthy tanks right now! If only we could sequence, identify and culture the right microbes.
