Can we give Probiotics to our Acropora corals to increase their health and prevent bleaching?
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Slight correction: They sequenced the DNA of the bacteria they grew to try to screen out ones that were known pathogens. *
Wouldn't it be great if we could supplement all our existing care with probiotics that would help ensure long and healthy lives for our coral in our reef tanks? One team thinks we might be able to do that soon!
They found that Acropora treated with probiotcs of their own blend withstood stress and disease better than untreated coral. Not only did it do better, but it also looked better - the coral's coloration was darker. It'd be great to figure out how to get this into the aquarium hobby since we're always on the lookout for ways to make our SPS corals healthier so they grow faster and look better.
This was researched as a potential tool to use to fight against climate change induced coral bleaching - but as most things it has other applications even in our own home aquariums.
"Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation"
Published: 05 December 2018
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Authors:
Phillipe M. Rosado, Deborah C. A. Leite, Gustavo A. S. Duarte, Ricardo M. Chaloub, Guillaume Jospin, Ulisses Nunes da Rocha, João P. Saraiva, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Jonathan A. Eisen, David G. Bourne & Raquel S. Peixoto
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Oh, this is awesome! Thank you so much for your feedback, I am so happy to see this video and people's comments. Our ideal world is like that, where we can publish papers that the society will read and comment and think about. I am so so glad ;-) * BTW, we did identify the bacteria in our "soup"! Halomonas taeanensis, Pseudoalteromonas sp and Cobetia marina. They are all native and isolated from the reef ;-)
Oh wow! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! The paper and research is awesome! Aside from some of the genetics it was very approachable for me - but I know the genetics are a very important part of the paper for the intended audience and it did make sense to use it to screen bacteria. I blanked on the species names while I was recording, thanks for pointing that out! It would be really neat to see if similar types of bacteria could provide a benefit in captive corals as well.
@@ReefMan sure!!! One of the ideas is to have something that can be used for aquaria, the Rio de Janeiro Marine Aquarium is one of the players in the team and it is where our facilites are. So, we really want to have a probiotic to be used in our tanks there too! We have developed another "soup" for a different coral species that worked as good as the first, in a different way. Now we are also trying to improve it and also make corals grow! Hopefully we'll have cool things coming out soon! I'll keep you posted ;-)
@@raquelpeixoto2541 I'm looking forward to future papers!
Try PNS Probio on Agae Barn. It stopped my SPS from STN in its tracks.
Benepets claims to include probiotics in its coral food Benereef. They state "Benepets Proprietary Probiotic blend such as but not limited to Lactobacillus, Saccharomyces and Bacillus species." I have been using it for a couple of weeks. The corals do respond to it, but it is too soon to evaluate growth. Good video and information!
I've never heard of this brand. Thanks! It's interesting that they use Lactobacillus sp. - that's something I think of as a human probiotic like we'd get in yogurt. Saccharomyces sp. seems to be most likely yeast - something I've heard of people feeding their tanks. I'll do more research on yeast, that could be interesting!
Great video. Very informative :-)
Unique reef content!!! Keep it up
Interesting article. I have used probiotics before in my salt and never noticed a difference. However, that was in coloration not over health of the coral.
Yea, I've seen the probiotic salt as well. I always suspected that it was a carbon source for bacteria vs actual bacteria though.
Love this type of content!
I'm glad! I always worry that videos like this fringe on too technical but I thought the paper was really interesting.
I have started to use Prodibio , may assist keeping corals healthy keep you posted
What kind of Prodibio are you using? It seems like a lot of them are marketed as a way to improve water quality vs specifically coral health?
@@ReefMan Prodibio Biokit Reef, 30 Vials still testing to see if they make a difference they are from France ..
According to their site that contains "BioDigest (live bacteria), Bioptim (micronutrients), Reef_Booster, Iodi+ and Stronti+ (coral and live rock supplements)." So it looks like BioDigest is for water quality, then the others are nutrients and trace elements for coral. I suspect it will be like AcroPower - generally a little improvement. Let me know! I think my tank is too big to be able to use Prodibio products thought hah
@@ReefMan ..Thanks for that, i also use AcroPower which is on hold at the moment ... love this hobby but it is expensive ..
@@tasanastasi7799 it sure can be! If you're in the US the best price I've found for AcroPower is the gallon jugs from Premium Aquatics.
Interesting. 😎👍
Glad you thought so!
Which type of probiotics?
Is there any type of probiotics available in market to use in home reef aquaria?
Not really. Not like this research team created, at least. Most of the probiotics on the market are geared towards overall tank health, nitrates, that kind of thing.
What is the control treatment in this experiment.
Sorry for the slow response. They used saline without any added probiotic strains to run the control group for this experiment. The others had the trial probiotic mixed into the saline before it was dosed into the tanks.
The type of bacterias they used weren't even specified, and were created in a lab by experienced scientist according to you.
Unless you were talking specifically to scientist, how would any layman be able to replicate this experiment?