Biodiversity on the reef and in your aquarium.

One interesting talk at MACNA was biodiversity.

For the last few years they have been studying various species on the reef. They now estimate there are over one million species of life in the ocean.

The part that really stunned me is on every square meter of reef, there are over 1,000 species of life. Anything from ciliates and plankton, to corals and fish.

This reinforces my belief of seeding your tanks with various kinds of plankton before adding anything else.

 

I like to get most of mine through algagen. I will be stocking and culturing some soon. Mainly focus on the harptecoid pods, those are the ones that live on surfaces. The free swimming pods will not survive in a home system.