If it weren’t for pests and diseases, keeping a saltwater fish aquarium or reef tank would be非常更轻松。鱼类寄生虫，珊瑚寄生虫甚至蛤虫都会给拥有繁荣的盐水水族馆环境带来真正的挫折，不幸的是，其中一些可能很难治疗或诊断，直到为时已晚。通常，直到您的鱼在水面上喘着粗气，或者您的珊瑚正在经历大量的组织损失，您才意识到确实有问题，这通常是无法治疗的。
There’s plenty of ‘diseases’ that aren’t parasites but for those that are, tank biology testing companyAquaBiomicshas a new service which can test your tank for the presence of many parasites that commonly attack our beloved fish, corals and other invertebrates. At first this kind of water test for common diseases might sound like alchemy but the science of collecting and analyzing environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, has been used in research of microbial ecology for many years.
使用这些相同的EDNA技术和遗传标记对于常见的害虫和寄生虫，Aquabiomics TankDNA测试可以确定某些Reefers最讨厌的鱼类和珊瑚害虫的存在。这项服务有可能彻底改变我们对珊瑚害虫的集体理解，并更好地，在珊瑚和鱼类开始患有可诊断症状之前，向礁石提前警告了礁石水族馆的害虫。
而环境的科学mental DNA is sound, we want to be convinced that the testing service can really do what it claims – like will it be able to determine the presence of just a fewPhestillaMonti eating nudibranch orAmakusaplana尖锐的食用扁虫in a large volume of water before the infestation really spreads? Or will it need to flare up to larger numbers in order to get a hit on the eDNA test?
If the test is truly as sensitive as we hope, which should only improve over time, it would be really informative to test the water of various livestock vendors and frag sellers who don’t offer a pest-free guarantee to find out which coral farmers and dealers have coral pests in their systems, whether they know it or not.AquaBiomics’ tankDNA teststarts at $99 for a single kit and goes down to $49 on a sliding scale for ten or more tests and while we are pretty confident that most reefers won’t really pay attention to this service, for a while at least, more progressive aquarists who want to know andunderstand现在正在发生的事情能够将窗帘拉回到我们水族馆的微生物学独立。
