Pico Reef Science Fair Project

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

I saw a show a few weeks ago where a guy actually had a frag section in the ocean to grow corals and was then actually gluing the frags to the rocks. I can't remember the name of the show, but basically the group doing this was on their own and the project was going to come to an end due to funding. It would tie in with your option 2 to show what we've learned in the hobby, is actually being used to repopulate the reefs or vise versa. I'll try to look it up when I get home. (hope this makes sense...long day...)

I guess you might be talking about this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjGUoR-CLK0

[Coralgurl]

Not the same video but same idea!

[duncangweller]

I'm in the wrong job!

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[lockrookie]

As far as it goes you can e corporate both into the project easy enough


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[Ian]

I will chime in from the perspective of a science teacher

The best science fair projects ask a question and then seek to find an answer to this question by doing an experiment.
Your 1st option would seem to be more of a research project ( write a report) than an actual experiment.
Your 2nd option would have a bunch of great directions you could go as far as performing an experiment. For this reason I would follow that line of thought.

Whichever way you choose be sure to nail down your Question first and then go after ananswer. But both of you have fun with it !

[jgoldsney]

Ian,

You have pointed out the one thing that is got me a little stumped. The concept of doing a project around his tank is exciting but what question should we be trying to answer. The one I am thinking of is "can a reef be created from only aquacultured corals". Since we are restarting from scratch it won't be hard to do a proof of concept with his pico. If we proved the concept in the pico we could extrapolate this to the real world.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

My Nano Reef Contest entry will be populated completely with aquacultured corals and fish, so it will be a similar idea.

[jgoldsney]

Well we have talked it over and we think that our question will be

"Can aquacultured corals restore a reef"

My son's astute hypothysis thanks to years of watching my tanks and his is that yes they can but we will be proving this conceptually with his pico reef.

I wan't to get it set up this weekend and take some base line pictures and then stock it as much as I can over the next 2 weeks. Then we can chart the progress over the next few months and observe the coral growth.

I know that really SPS corals would be really what rebuilds a reef but the principle will be the same.

Anyone in edmonton care to donate a frag or 2