Natural Reef Creation

[AndreT]

Thought some of you might find this interesting, I did.

It's about creating a natural reef by artificial means.

http://www.ecoreefs.com/home.php

 

[Mashrie]

Very interesting hey.
Pretty much cant curb the human mind!!!

 

[Copperband]

Guys there's a new proggie on Animal Planet called Great Ocean Adventures. They showed a piece on artificial reef building in the Philippines last night. Its on Wednesday nights at 8pm

 

[AndreT]

Copper, I saw that, hence the reason for my search into artificially created natural reefs.

It was a very interesting watch.

 

[Copperband]

yeah but whats your feelings on the use of metal frames as reef base?

 

[Ridwaan]

Excellent info there Galibore...

 

[AndreT]

yeah but whats your feelings on the use of metal frames as reef base?

At first I frowned a bit. But then, thinking about it, it is the ocean after all. I don't think it is much of a problem considering that it doesn't take long for the frames to be covered with calcium carbonate.

 

[Copperband]

yupp same here, imagine using steel in the home tank..ohh boy..

 

[AndreT]

That would probably be disasterous...hehe.

What was the most impressive to me was how quickly life moves into this new artificial reefs. If I recall correctly, the narrator said withing two days there are an abundance of fish and shrimps and stuff that found a new home.

What shrimp was those that he called cleaner shrimp? It didn't really look like the Lysmata amboinensis that I am used to.

 

[Mekaeel]

very interesting.wonder if we can make up small ones for our tank without metal

 

[Copperband]

It looked either like a sexy shrimp (Thor ambionensis) or a harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera picta)

 

[AndreT]

Yeah my first thought was Harlequin.

Mekaeel, the way it looked to me, is that there wasn't really much form or shape to it. They just welded a lot of metal rods together to form a structure. Before long the structures were teaming with life.