Richard Ross: How can reef aquarium hobbyists help to spawn coral in their tanks? | MACNA 2019

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Richard Ross is known for his“Skeptical Reefkeeping” article series, his groundbreaking work with cephalopod husbandry, his entertaining and informative talks, and for managing the ambitious 212,000 gallon reef tank in the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences. “It’s so great. I get to work on what interests me in a variety of ways; I write and speak about the practical philosophy of aquarium keeping and animal welfare in the hobby press, and I get to publish in academic journals. I get to practice the fascinating craft of aquarium keeping on a daily basis, as well as participate in various kinds of field work like coral sexual reproduction. Through it all, I have the ongoing challenge and honor of working with incredible species like pygmy seahorses, unique cephalopods, ghost pipefish and more”.
Richard was presented with the MASNA Aquarist of the Year award in 2015, and his work has been covered by Scientific American, National Geographic, Penn’s Sunday School, NPR’s Science Friday, Discovery News and Fox News.
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[@Mike__B]

I love listening to Richard, he is such an awesome dude that I'm happy to have known since the moment I started this hobby some 20 years ago. He does hit on something that I noticed after visiting a coral show, and that's the whole "if they can't make money from it...." lots of "OG" corals I just want to populate my tank with, but man you can't find them anymore because they aren't grown out by someone with a website and forced into insane color combinations. That said I do have Green Slimer and I still think it's super awesome :)

[@UnorthodoxReef]

loved this video!! Thank you for the effort and enthusiasm you put into this hobby Rich.

[@taryndeclyn1474]

Rich is always a great listen! Thanks BRS!

[@thepodunkreef2189]

BRS Coral spawning!!?? A control tank, light cycle tank, heat cycle tank, moon cycle tank, Then a tank with all variables. Not unlike other tests you've conducted.

[@ztous]

This would be a true advancement in the hobby. Making this information available and repeatable could change the course of many reef tanks.

[@Manniejr310]

Whoever gave this video a thumbs down we cannot be friends like ever ✌🏼

[@mwpfishbreeder]

Yeah really, who downvotes this stuff?!

[@cephhead]

@@mwpfishbreeder I think a lot of the downvotes on my talks are about feeding clownfish culls to marine predators.

[@Penofhell]

@@mwpfishbreeder surprisingly when you look at the BRS MACNA 2019 talks Playlist the thumbs up/down ratio is atrocious, I wonder what people dislike so much about these talks and why they don't take the time to explain it in the comments...

[@reefermadness4891]

I was one of those people freaking out he likes to giggle at 😔

[@Andreas-gh6is]

I think as a hobbyist I would construct my own spawning-box. It would be a nano cube, mayhaps connected to a bigger tank for stability. It would be in a light-tight container, with lighting controlled by my own controller, probably a raspberry pi 4, which would conveniently also have an HD camera trained on the corals for recording. That way I'd only rarely have to darken off the whole room. Temperature control is a bit tricky, because I haven't found a cheap and reliable solution to set the temperature programmatically yet. Unfortunately, readily packaged thermostat heaters often aren't programmable (or affordable), and making your own is dicy because both under- and over-temperature will kill things.

[@Brad.Hobbies]

This was awesome, I would love to see you all seek out more people like Richard and have them educate us on coral spawning.

[@anomyouslastname4904]

So glad to see that I’m not the only crazy SOB that wants to do this

[@simonbouchard8427]

We need a bulkreef video " how to spanw coral at home " whit a tank test.

[@KayentaRojo]

yes the talks begin!! i think this is so fascinating and beneficial! I really plan on doing this in the future and i hope more people follow! I love the scientific part of the hobby.

[@bradleyrhodes2820]

Peaked my interest for sure. I think I will be trying this myself in the future.

[@geraudk]

Thanks for sharing this talk! Richard Ross is always a fun and interesting speaker.

[@Super21123]

So far this is the most awesome video on the channel! Thank you BRS

[@firsttimereefertv1588]

Loving these live videos guys!!

[@12GallonNano]

MACNA TALKS!!! Thanks BRS!

[@firsttimereefertv1588]

Learning and understanding to spawn coral will be key in the future of sustainability imo

[@TheG760]

This guy had me cracking up! Great info.

[@jluusaltwateraquarium8320]

Super fantastic video talking about corals inside tank.. Thanks you sir so much for this hobby I'm news on this hobby just for 1 years...😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

This research is amazing! I've learned so much from this. Thanks brs. Macna and everyone in the hobby!

[@PazLeBon]

Seems like sunlight is the way to go

[@kensellick4892]

This is tremendous

[@simonbouchard8427]

Thats really interesting but i dont know if it how he explain but seem so hard to do. You should do a video about this, but more home aplicable. He say it ez to do but he do it in a lab whit crazy control place. But look very nice.

[@NerdistAquarist]

Been waiting for these! Please tell me more Macna speakers will be posted.

[@BRStv]

Right now we're looking at new talks posted every Monday and Wednesday. ;)

[@dangappa]

You can't change the light like this through Echotec, you need to get the Apex module to control the lights, correct?

[@bradleyrhodes2820]

Yes correct.

[@BRStv]

If you want to run your Radions throughout he Apex, you're correct. You'll need the WXM module in that case.

[@lynnreefnerd]

Poor little nemos. :'(

[@DC-xg6gt]

Not sure the message of go do it it's easy, go collect or encourage wild collection which is proven to be very low mortality rate is the right thing here...what you doing is not easily done by hobbyist.. These kind of rationales are part of the problem in my openion..

[@frankcolumbo4559]

Great presentation, very interesting and entertaining! But on one of the slides, "tempature". really? Come on!

[@cephhead]

I do that sometimes to see if anyone notices.

[@frankcolumbo4559]

@@cephhead --- should have realized that someone with your level of attention to detail combined with a rapier wit would have done this on purpose - well played sir