Orange Montastrea cavernosa recruits?
EricHugo at aol.com
EricHugo at aol.com
Tue Jul 25 21:57:42 EDT 2000
Just a quick offer to those interested parties.
Aquarists use actinic bulbs on reef aquaria, and a large portion of these
bulbs spectra is in the near-UV spectrum, and thus fluorescence is very
obvious in many hundreds of species.
Orange is a fairly common fluorescent color in Faviids, in general, and also
fairly common in Zoanthus sociatus. I am sure other aquarists on this list
could offer the same, but I'd be happy to relate on the fluorescence of any
of hundreds of scleractinians, octocorals, corallimorpharians, zoantharians,
actinarians. It is very limiting to seek out fluorescence underwater, but a
quick trip to a coral facility or any well stocked aquarium at "simulated
dusk and dawn" will quickly reveal the patterns, colors, and variations of
these pigments in a slew of taxa. No, it does not appear to stress related
at all, at least in captive species. For at least GFP, and seemingly for
other colors, increasing irradiance will cause its production in almost all
cases, and increase the fluorescence of those which already have it - even in
corals one might not expect to see fluoresce at all, such as Sarcophyton spp.
Eric Borneman
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