Back From the Brink: Systems Engineering Approach to Coral Triage & Rehab. Nicole Bridges MACNA 2022

Miss out on MACNA 2022? BRStv has more speaker event content for you! Today, join Nicole Bridges as she discusses her systems engineering background and applies it to the triage and rehab of our saltwater aquarium's coral. Check it out here!
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[@jondahl9826]

Great presentation. Thank you, Macna and BRS for bringing Macna talks to the plebs. Lol

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you!

[@DrAqua-nz9we]

What you are. doing is great. Thank you for sharing your findings and acquired knowledge. I look forward to seeing more in the future.

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you so much! Your kind words are very encouraging.

[@amermeer3989]

Great Job Nikki! Applying a systematic engineering approach with great success. I am inspired.

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you so much!

[@davbenav]

High quality presentation!! Very interesting and helpful for the community. Thanks fot sharing your discoveries!

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you very much! It was an absolute honor, and so I'm glad you found it interesting and helpful!

[@aquariumengineer]

i hope to see a lot more of what you put out, this was great!

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you! If you'd like to know more, I hope you'll find my blog interesting: www.CoralEverAfter.org.

[@Rafiki5333]

Awesome topic, awesome speaker with a wealth of knowledge and real world results not just lab talks and theory. Love this.

[@ReefdUp]

I know this guy! 👆Thanks - and thanks for all the support over the years!

[@zenriyakaruvyin8273]

shoutout to Nicole Bridges for this amazing educational material i foudn her website but hadent seen her macna vid came back to brstv today and found this gem to conect the dots to a few days ago. hers is the firts central infosource of rehabilataion, now if it could be expanded on and givin more in depth detail, also if once could make a simaler site for all knowen animal toxinomy.

[@zenriyakaruvyin8273]

i had to track fdown for many sources short vids of disections of sevral primary marine species, being one example of the above mentioned.

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful; it's hard to fit so much into such a short time.

[@oryfoxer]

Awesome Presentation, just a shame this document isn't linked or publicly available and if so, why not listed in the description? All good and well, but if no one can apply because you didn't share, what's the point? I'll just snippit it from the video, but be nice to see something available for everyone to use.

[@sunnygoold9449]

Incredible - love all the work that is happening here to help corals. We also need to see some demonstration videos for how to use bandsaws and tools to remove unnecessary skeleton (Danger Coleman also talks about this) and then how to glue (and what glue to get).

[@ReefdUp]

Appreciate the support and feedback! While the dollar-store-type superglue gel (ethyl or methyl cyanoacrylate) is fine for most coral applications (in my opinion, at least), I use a veterinary-grade superglue gel (n-butyl cyanoacrylate) for my rehabilitations (but, it's not cheap). This type of glue has a lower toxicity, some antimicrobial properties, a lower exothermal reaction, and typically includes a special indicator dye to distinguish glue lines. It does seem to really make a difference in severe coral cases. Hope that helps!

[@sunnygoold9449]

@@ReefdUp thanks so much - I will have to see if I can find it over here. I recently started trying Chummingham's method of a bath of Fauna Marin RTN/STN for 6 hours (with mixed results) but my guess is the issue is too much flow in my tank for LPS (plus I have a couple of peppermints). It did stop a new A. speciosa from STNing but a month later I lost it (not unexpected with a wild speciosa). Anyhow I suspect we'd have better success fragging corals with issues would work a lot better with this veterinary glue.

[@ReefdUp]

@@sunnygoold9449, I'll have to look into that product, as I have not yet tried it. As for the flow, as long as it is not direct flow, LPS can handle a lot (I run a half SPS, half LPS tank that has a pretty high turnover). I'd suspect the peppermints more than the flow, but I'm a bit biased against peppermints. But yes, in sensitive cases, I highly recommend a vet-grade super glue gel. Thanks for sharing!

[@Ellery-USA]

Aah one of my fellow peeps who speak my Systems Engineering language! a great topic we don't hear much about.

[@ReefdUp]

Shout-out back to you! Thanks for watching!

[@seanaustin8516]

Yes the first one and the first comment ❤❤❤❤⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@ReefdUp]

Haha, thanks for coming here!

[@wowyummyyy]

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[@ReefdUp]

Thank you!

[@lmills2810]

like it very well done. You talked about your web site but what is it? can you post it?

[@ReefdUp]

Thank you! My blog is at www.CoralEverAfter.org.

[@lmills2810]

@@ReefdUp Thank for the reply. I would like to share some trick that i used if that's ok? thanks again LAM

[@lmills2810]

@@ReefdUp Parasites Years ago, I had a parasite invasion in my tank. This was in the 80’s and the fish stores back then had no solutions for tank parasites except copper which would kill all the invertebrates. Besides the fish, all the other tank livestock showed signs of parasites as well. I read an article from the Oceanography Institute in California that stated, “The higher the water salinity the greater the number of parasites”. So, I tried to slowly lower the water salinity for over a week until I could see the fish were stressing out too much. After a month, I slowly returned the tank to a salinity of 1.019 and kept it there. (The article also listed many other locations in the ocean and seas where some salinity levels were lower than 1.019 and some higher.) This did a great job of completely ridding the tank of parasites! I also acclimated the guppies and mollies to the salinity of the tank. The adults were fine, and the fry wound up being a good food source. This non-chemical treatment worked well, and the tank became very healthy. In fact, I had an explosion of new, tank animals! thanks LAM

[@ReefdUp]

@@lmills2810, thanks for sharing! It is always fascinating to hear the tales of aquarium keeping back in the day! There are so many parasites that have such narrow survivable parameters (e.g., temperature, salinity), so thankfully our fish and corals can survive a bit more of a range. I remember getting red bugs on my corals (thankfully only in my quarantine tank) many years ago, and we had a power outage during winter. My tank dropped down to 65*F. All of the red bugs died, but the rest of the inhabitants (fish, coral, other inverts) were fine!