Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz

[@sg-kv6id]

Who would win: An entire thriving ecosystem with tons of extraordinary and powerful creatures. Or... Some leafy boys.

[@colonelcanada-9500]

4:20 "nut" Lol

[@silversnow4020]

ITS JUST LIKE CORONA VIRUS ᕙ[･۝･]ᕗ

[@kriswright8879]

Eric Munoz is a hero. I am a scientist and live near the lagoon where this incident happened in California. This genetically modified algae meant for aquariums cannot be released in the wild. Period. This video has shown that there is nothing that can stop this algae from spreading with the exception of Eric's treatment. What also helped is that this was caught very early after some moron dumped his/her aquarium into our lagoon. Also helpful is that the lagoon was relatively isolated from the ocean so treatment could not be affected by large waves. Since this algae can break off and sprout elsewhere, it can spread quickly and take over an area rapidly. It will wipe out the ecosystem! Public awareness is the best way to avoid something like this again.

[@prithusharma2559]

Yo dude

[@oliviaso9726]

I was actuaaly panicking it would reach my home city of Los angles. Gotta thank people for reacting quickly

[@komutsky1879]

It wasn’t genetically modified, it was selectively bred for cold tolerance. Wlth your logic every plant and animal we eat are GMO

[@farticlesofconflatulation]

That algae should be banned like DDT

[@infobig94]

meme man saved us from the weed of the ocean

[@Billchu13]

If one person dumping their aquarium into a storm drain can cause the entire coastline of Australia to become affected, how isn't this everywhere?

[@POOH_LY]

This is a special case because of the genetic modified seaweed, I think.

[@Rncko]

7 years reply. The seaweed are welcome to TEST my country's coastline where industrial pollutants THRIVE. --- from a developing country at South East Asia

[@hanoianboy9562]

@@Rncko And what is the point of doing so if everything in the ocean is gonna die anyway?

[@WilliamCharles]

Very well done Eric. Thanks for all your efforts at getting this important message publicized. Respectively, your former co-worker at the City of Carlsbad

[@PsoriasisChannel]

Well done video. We have to maintain the biodiversity of our oceans.

[@coffeefish]

We need storm water reform.

[@mhazg6621]

Overgrowing algae: *exist* Aquascaper: its free real estate!

[@couchgrouches7667]

Maybe we should engineer a fish or another kingdom of organisms that could withstand and consume the plant.

[@TheDocfri]

and then it will cause another problem, tho I thought the same

[@mollybutterfield1175]

There is only one natural enemy of the plant, and it is an snail. It's not a very fast snail either, and would be as Eric Munoz put it in a lecture "like burping in a hurricane". The animal would not help much. Now if we could genetically mutate it to be better... that would be cool.

[@saulgarza8511]

Couch Grouches glop pop

[@theodosiusanderson1383]

@@mollybutterfield1175 algae aren't plants there chromistas

[@theodosiusanderson1383]

The organism's population will explode and making the algae rarer and then the food web gets distrubted

[@danielr.]

I feel sad for the poor fish... hope he is doing well

[@abbieq11]

Let’s hope they don’t get to the GBR

[@j.c5078]

well done as usual

[@badoocee1967]

Interesting Ted-Ed. Thanks.

[@thetruthalwaysscary]

Some scientist says that this have much more positive effect on the environment than negative. It removes extreme amount of pollution and able to grow in areas where other plants already burned out completely. I dived in area where they have this and there were some small fish between them. Small fish attract and feed big ones so there is a circle. There is and were an evolution of plants just as much as animals and it is not controllable.

[@theodosiusanderson1383]

Algae are chromistas though

[@jadeuwu9860]

5 years ago?! guess I'm late lol

[@wincentivan2684]

Now we need to modify a meaty fish that feeds on it. Make sure it taste like salmon.

[@taighe6461]

6rd!

[@kwstaspap4707]

I spearfish in Greece and what has happened is unbelievable. From 2000 2002 I started to see some kind of algy and all the seaweed on the rocks started to die.

[@abhishek43195]

Very knowledgeable sir.. Thank you.. Please do something for Hindi viewers... Plz sir

[@TheBeastBananas]

came here just to listen how algae is pronounced

[@jonathanmharp]

Awesome animations!

[@kvd1]

To make matters worse? some non picky jellyfish farmers could farm non native algae, including this algae shown in this ted ed video! And one symbiotic jellyfish, M. Papua is going to be the main culprit for farming that killer algae.

[@lesot5907]

Lmao I had a question about this on my biology benchmark

[@z0mb3k1tty]

MR BEAST

[@yathienthai7003]

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[@julianhallo5840]

wow

[@kwstaspap4707]

In the island creeta It has been completely destroying the ecosystem.. There are no seaweed on the rocks no fish 90% less. The seaurchents are gon. Only in a few places will you see some.. This is not the same as the one you are talking about. But so ting is terribly wrong...

[@kvd1]

And I have another invasive protozoan culprit that’s already an invasive species that can do as much damage as the killer algae, And this protozoan is the same one that causes amoebic dysentery,I’m talking about entamoeba historlitica , or flesh eating amoeba to make it easier to understand and say, and this protozoan is a very small but very aggressive amoeba, and this little thing can reproduce really really fast, up to 35 million descendants in a day, and is faster reproduction than aphids or even bacteria, and that reproduction is what I like to a very good candidate for an invasive species, and there is almost no other organism that can match that reproduce as this amoeba, and this parasitic amoeba is also one of the oldest known invasive species in the world!

[@tessnapinas9979]

this is why we shouldn't mess with God's gift, and modifying species just to be more powerful.

[@noviceprepper5397]

great informative video, thank you

[@AppletartFunny]

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[@RKBCh-eg3vt]

waste plastic its dangerous waste seaweed its more more dangerous

[@masyola5280]

No need to be afraid. Nature will find its way. There will be a balance.

[@theplaguedoctor6271]

Its been 7nd years we won The battle You : but what it cost Me : *ever* *thing*

[@pokee9]

wouldn't the solution be developing a edible fish species that would have a disposition to consume the plants? two birds one stone.

[@pokee9]

no genetically engineered fish have never been use'd and the scientific community would easily solve this if they knew what direction to come at a problem like this perhaps using engineered native fish solves you objection..

[@mrspeciest7589]

pokee9 [engineered native fish] lol! and then you'd wiped out the native unmodified species. Have you even thought this through? Besides modifying fishes in the first place ain't no easy task. It needs funding, most likely from the government. and with the way economy is going now and citizen frustration. It won't see the light of day

[@pokee9]

who cares about the un altered natives it's the same animal just given an advantage over the introduced pest. also if the only thing holding progress back is funding then there is a problem with the system not the scientific method. I have thought this through more than most and not just this. bring forth progress I say.

[@mrspeciest7589]

pokee9 [same animal just given an advantage] ergo not the same animal.

[@pokee9]

well I disagree because it's the same animal just modified to survive in it's human altered environment or you could do nothing and let the species die.

[@ryansfavoritesvandyke8005]

Zooplankton eat that algae before it preys on it(as in zooplankton or the fish).

[@Solar_systemlover45]

Who would have thought that tiny algae could affect us this much!

[@aper6014]

That is why genetically modified organisms are very dangerous. Sometimes just a slight difference in DNA could have a huge impact. For example, a scientist once genetically modified a tomato so that it wouldn't rot. However, it was later found out that those tomatoes can cause cancer. Humans have been genetically modifying organisms for thousands of years and they still can't get it right. They should just leave the process of creating organisms to nature. We are not science experiments, we are people!

[@jayfawn8478]

but....but still it filter toxins in the water. I guest we need one in school's lagoon. I will throw some later from my aquarium

[@P7AYER_1]

Maybe we can teach them a lesson by putting them in a small glass box like their fishs. Let them move around in the glass box just for our amusement. And use their excuse on them. Like "they are probably get hit by a car anyway, its safer to say in the glass box."

[@AppletartFunny]

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[@arvo-noon]

It’s the truth because I’m magical

[@qiwi111]

I think that the fish will adapt to this new algae and will be able to eat it in the future.

[@gracehood2004]

I hope this will prove to be true!

[@SangoProductions213]

Evolution doesn't happen just like that. It is when those who can't survive die off, and those who can survive live on and breed. You can't just spontaneously be immune to toxins, unless you were born with it, or if you slowly, over many years, build an immunity to it. Fish don't live long enough, and likely don't know of the method to build immunity to it. So, if it manages to crowd out the local life too much, there will be a pretty massive die off with only a few if any surviving fish. But after that point, it will slowly get better, but will still be plagued by this incredibly invasive species. But, I wonder if we can introduce this seaweed to China's Yellow River to make it almost drinkable...or if it would just die from the pollution.

[@gracehood2004]

I agree with you. And qiwi never said it would be the near future. That would be an interesting application for it. Still a dangerous thing to mess with but it could be benificial

[@SangoProductions213]

Considering almost nothing could grow in the Yellow River because of how atrociously it was treated, I kinda doubt even this killer algae could put down roots there. But yeah, most people just blow off major issues by saying "aw, we don't need to worry, everything will just adapt and we will live happily ever after." His comment seemed equally dismissive so I was simply explaining evolution is not magic.

[@mrspeciest7589]

got a hundred years or two? i'm already being optimistic in the rate of evolution

[@motdot1619]

think about all that genetically modified food

[@Silverizael]

How does that have anything to do with this?

[@motdot1619]

Silverizael Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz

[@Silverizael]

mot dot Linking to the same video doesn't answer my question.

[@motdot1619]

Silverizael 2:43 same video

[@Silverizael]

mot dot Except that GM crops don't have any fitness advantages for the most part and, even if they did, not of the kind of fitness that would hurt other plants in the environment.

[@MaCs1313]

The strong will survive, and the weak shall perish, be it allege or humans.

[@shirleywheeler4473]

Joy your videos very much

[@alixxandrethegreat]

I really loved this channel's old art style than today's corporate art style...

[@ishkibable]

They are single-celled organisms that can grow 10ft!

[@AppletartFunny]

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[@darexinfinity]

RIP Austraila

[@blasterixx1]

This mean that we shouldn't throw all the craps in the oceans

[@pinkribbon1007]

the people that claimed that it was good are probably like trump claiming global warming is a hoax

[@user-sn6jv5dv9s]

The Atlas Pro Video on this is incredible

[@linkinrecker9410]

0:14 GODZILLA

[@rio121rahmansyah]

Hmmm attack on titan can learn from this

[@LemonsAndSadness]

0:14 omg godzilla

[@mlgodzilla4206]

0:14 my Boi godzilla!

[@vii2674]

So was it actually that bad?

[@XeroZVash]

The fish should go vegan

[@mbanana23456]

Well it's clear what's going to happen, fish are going to eat in and return to a relatively stable ecosystem

[@Hyumanity]

+mbanana23456 I think you missed this part 1:07.

[@monkeyorful]

+BaconOfTheSea fish will develope a tolerance to the toxine or die, its simply natural way of evolivng, killing something cause is changing the enviroment is anti natural, simply is better than other algs and all have to addapt to it or disappear. It has happen a lot of times through earth histoy.

[@monakuczenski914]

Excellent Video!

[@Ahenkel36]

All by design!

[@dizzyshmizzy2624]

77th

[@nas2692]

Hi guys.

[@hahalalatralala]

woah

[@lesorax123]

lkk lo

[@ordeloliveros5999]

How should aquarists dispose of it then?

[@ericcaulerpa9284]

MaJo Mouse If you have Caulerpa in your system, properly dispose of it by freezing it and any attached materials in a bag for 24 hours and placing the bag in the trash. Dispose of aquarium water into a sink, toilet, or shower, all of which lead to water treatment plants, not waterways

[@ordeloliveros5999]

eric caulerpa Good to know. I'll keep it in mind if the need arises. Thanks

[@tintedblue7827]

Is it safe for an aquarium

[@mollybutterfield1175]

It is illegal to own, and you could get fined. So no, probably not safe for an aquarium.

[@theodosiusanderson1383]

@@mollybutterfield1175 i think what he ment was for the aquarium ecosystem

[@jackiethegoldenjackal]

meanwhile dnews says gmo is harmless

[@aper6014]

dnews is wrong

[@rebelbeammasterx8472]

Gmos for what? Corn that resists drought and feeds millions? Rice with Vitamin A? Getting rid of diseases in babies? That all seems good. This Algae has its use, but in other ecosystems it's dangerous.

[@lautarofonseca3350]

You could make gmo's sterile and give them all the fitness changing genes you want, if the same was applied to this algae, this wouldn't have happened