The Reef Builders Studio was created to be a place of reef aquarium learning, discovery and experimentation, especially when it comes to setting up different kinds of reef aquariums. Many of us have often wondered what it would be like to have a mangrove habitat, or an anemone lagoon, or a tank full of Banggais and long spine urchins.
The Xmas Tree Worm Rock aquarium is the first of these dedicated concept aquariums to be set up at the Studio, and also the first tank to get a nice lengthy update with notes and observations. Our four colonies consisting of threePorites和oneCyphastrea主机在一百多个蠕虫附近的某个地方,该数字maybe growing!
One interesting ‘issue’ has been the impressive growth and size of the worms which are so big and so dense that they had started to really shade their host corals from flow and light. The three foot 30 gallon Innovative Marine EXT aquarium is now flowed with a highly programmable Nero 5 pump, and illuminated with the MaxSpect Razor 2, giving thePorites和Cyphastrea尽管蠕虫的租户分段,光线和流动能量仍继续蓬勃发展。
剩下的最后一个大问题Spirobranchusworms is whether it’s possible for them to breed in captivity. The first step is acquiring and conditioning potential broodstock, which this tank is doing, so now we’ll be filling in this tank with compatible coral hosts for the Xmas worm larvae to settle on should they ever be successfully spawned in this aquarium.