Dude you should be getting some serious sponsors with the guest lineup you've had the past few months. Even if that's not your thing, you're doing a great job! Thanks!

We want more from Eli. Greate show

Great cold water question Deven. Where I get my live sand the water ranges from about 53 degrees in January to 85 degrees in August. That's a huge temp swing. I think some colder water bacteria are able to tolerate warmer temps depending on how warm their native water gets in the summer months. Another thing I find interesting is the salinity swings. I've seen HUGE salinity swings when there's a lot of rain. This may only be near shore, because I've never measured offshore. I suspect it is less the father offshore you go.

Thank you!

I'm knocked by someone high profile for admitting that I cycle with frags. Just something I always did because I figured we seed bacteria and Coraline etc and there is likely some beneficial seeding done by the corals to a degree. I mean new sps only tanks with an ultra-low bioload and half a dozen small cheap frags,. Sure, I have to brush diatoms from them but that's about it, they are used for this purpose as opposed to them being the final corals in the display or a nice acro but these frags usually do well.. tho that's probably a secondary thing. Id love o hear this guys thoughts on it

Great interview Deven!

Great topic. I’ve been using AquaBiomics on a monthly subscription since January. Very informative and Eli’s personal comments on the sample are excellent.

Thats was really awsome, really like this kind of discussion, and the carbon dosing aspect blow my mind, that we actualy grow a different kind of bacteria that overtake the place of the nutrigene one 🤯.

Great topic, thank you. What test would you do to identify coral bacteria issues?

Aquaforest Life Source (naturally collected mud from pristine reefs of Fiji )

Have a background in marine biology and environmental sciences. I think it's about "the right" diversity as you touched on. Technically, pathogens would contribute to diversity if they didn't detract from the rest of the microbial community. Clearly it's too early for us to really tell exactly what the 'right' community looks like, but the prospects are exciting. Even further down the line, I wonder if we'll get to the point where we can strive to achieve the 'right' bacterial communities that are optimal for certain kinds of habitats/tanks e.g. this community doesn't look anything like the one we see in the ocean, but has been demonstrated to result in higher growth and greater robustness in LPS. We're at that point in our collective knowledge where we rely on mimicry (of the ocean) because we don't know enough about or have enough control that we can generally move microbial levers with any real intent. Exciting times ahead!

I doubt Pods will kill off all the Uronema only because they are so often found in the gut, anal canal, etc of the fish. Pods might reduce the overall numbers though. It would be interesting to see the impact they make if any at all. Uronema are the most annoying ciliated protozoan on the planet.

Love this video but thought I'd give some feedback. Please dear God for the love of my ears, turn your volume down and the guest up lol

Are off the shelf products like AF life source and miracle mud appropriate substitutes for introducing diversity?

This was a good one. The question I have now is how bad is it for reef tank to run uv since it kills the free floating. Does it matter if the surface bacteria is ok

Sunlight makes cyano in my experience.

Technology causes problems that further technology fixes and the beat goes on. Time to back to old school basics and quit over stripping and let your tank find itself.

Huge Live Sand fan here. Definitely works. See my last KZfaq video of my 9 month cured dry rock. The clarity of the water is amazing for not doing a water change in months. :-)

Information should inform action. People paying for testing, but no proven direction is provided.