Olasana Lagoon: Road to Recovery?

The Swamp Thing visiting my nano on February 20th.

On February 20th, my odd little high energy nano tank project was ravaged by a mysterious green water bloom. You can read all about it HERE. A mere ten days later, I made this video. You can see the toll the green water bloom took. I lost one colony of Acropora, 3 or four small fragments, and had to drastically cut back other colonies to save them. You can see what looks like the dreaded rapid tissue necrosis that has stopped dead in its path without superglueing or fragging. This morning, a scant 11 days after the crash, I noticed while sipping my coffee… regrowth! Corals had begun to form that swollen margin that means only one thing. Encrusting growth. Needless to say, I’m beside myself with excitement and relief.

About Chris Maupin

Chris Maupin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Climate System Science program at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Chris was born and raised in south Florida, and during high school, interned for Mote Marine Laboratory. While receiving his B.S. in marine science and chemistry from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, he worked as the coral aquarist at Mote Marine Aquarium, maintaining a collection of rescue corals from the Florida Keys, including Acropora cervicornis. He received an M.S. in oceanography from the University of South Florida. Chris’ primary research interests involve using coral skeletons and cave deposits from the tropical west Pacific to reconstruct patterns of climate variability over the last 10,000 years.

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Olasana Lagoon: Road to Recovery?

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