一目了然,珊瑚似乎是一个无礼的地段,通常拥护“活着的”哲学。毕竟,当您牢固地固定在基板上时,您真的会给邻居带来多少麻烦?
Plenty, as it turns out! Corals and other sessile invertebrates may seem harmless, but they actually take aggression to such a diabolical level that they make even the most pugnacious fish look like Ghandi with fins. They’re just much more sneaky and insidious about it.
Depending on the species and particular circumstances, corals may employ one or more of the following aggressive mechanisms:
- Rapidly overgrowing neighboring invertebrates—i.e., actually growing directly onto the neighboring colony or extending over it and preventing it from receiving life-sustaining light
- 用刺激性触角刺痛邻居
- Extruding digestive organs (called mesenterial filaments) and essentially digesting the tissues of adjacent corals
- 将有毒化学物质(例如,萜类化学物质)渗入水中以杀死邻近的珊瑚或阻碍其生长
Reefkeepers可以采取什么措施来抵消这些敌对战术?
#1之前的研究
我们一次又一次地在Saltwater Smarts建议了这次,但它重复了。对不同珊瑚特征的一些适度研究将揭示各种有关其相对侵略性/有害性的重要信息,例如这一事实是肌肉菌皮革珊瑚有毒是有毒的,Euphylliaspp。已知珊瑚会产生长长的刺痛“清扫”触角。选择要组合哪种物种以及如何将它们放在水箱中时,必须考虑这些细节。
#2将他们散开
放置标本时,允许它们之间的空间比您认为最终需要的更多。如果坦克最初看起来很稀疏,那没关系。最好拥有少量的标本,并有足够的空间来避开彼此的触角,而不是在彼此之间和持续的战争状态上生长更多的标本。
#3 Isolate rapid-spreading corals
形成垫子并迅速向外生长到相邻底物上的珊瑚/息肉,例如绿色星状息肉和某些zoanthids,可能需要隔离到一个单独的岩石(如果您愿意的话)上,以保持其在支票中的增长,并且防止他们刺激或过度生长的cnidarian邻居。
#4 Maximize water movement
无论如何,轻快的湍流水运动在许多珊瑚礁 - 阿喹啉环境中都是有益的,它将有助于防止有毒化合物在任何特定标本周围集中。但是请记住,并非所有无脊椎动物都喜欢高水平的当前。有些,例如Discosomaspp。蘑菇息肉,喜欢非常低水平的水流动。
#5采用蛋白质撇油器,化学滤液和大量的水变化
用活化的碳脱脂蛋白质脱脂和化学过滤将有助于清除/吸附珊瑚化学战的副产品。而且,当然,您可以将这些毒素的去除/稀释添加到常规部分水变化的许多优点中。
Do you recommend shorter periods of water movement or longer continuous periods in two alternate directions? I have 2 korallias in my 55gal reef?d
There are definitely varying opinions on this, but we advocate providing continuous random, turbulent water movement around corals (at a level of intensity appropriate to the species, of course). That typically requires some experimentation with the position of powerheads, filter return nozzles, etc. so their outputs intersect in the water column and/or deflect and scatter off the tank glass or objects in the aquarium. Hope that helps!
谢谢。我与他们玩耍,通常试一试ro intersect in the middle of the tank near the over flow box.
当锤子珊瑚成熟时,他们可能会对附近的珊瑚造成破坏
http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/2014-10-22121701_zpsf288044e.jpg
如果您认为锤子珊瑚不好,则应该看到桌子珊瑚可以对他们的邻居做什么!