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Related FAQs: Sources of Reef Mortality, Marine Mortality 2, Stocking, More Stocking FAQs, FAQs III, IV, Five, VI Cyanide and Marine Livestock Collection, To Parts II, III, IV Related Articles: Use of Marine Life as Ornamentals, Cyanide Use, Cyanide Usage in the Aquarium and Live Food-Fish Industries:Causes, Impacts and Management of a Pervasive Practice by Ivan Steward /The Conscientious Aquarist Series: Sources of Mortality on the Worlds Reefs, An Aquarist's Perspective | |
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| |  | | Pardon me for being an old ex. H.S. science teacher. Here are the principal points I hope you will come away with consequent to this exposure. |  | | Mortality here will mean "death"... the differentiation of causal or intentional loss of life is not germinal to our discussion (Latin terms "to kill", "cease"), including |  | | A stylistic bar graph showing a typical pattern of rapid initial die-off of sex cells, larval forms in aquatic environments. Reasons, causal mechanisms for mortality are listed. |  |
| Examples of the abundance, dominance of filter feeding life on the world's reefs. Here are some of the many, usually hidden (cryptic) sponges, phylum Porifera. Dominant life forms in the tropical West Atlantic, live rock by weight. |  | | Gorgonians, aka Sea Fans, worldwide, tropical to temperate seas. |  | | Some anemones are facultatively photosynthetic, others detritovorous (a nice term meaning they eat "poop"... most get a great deal of energy from filter feeding. |  | | Mushrooms, corallimorpharians are mainly filter feeders. |  | | As are Soft Corals. |  | | And the tunicates. |  |
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