And the 2009 Nobel prize in Captive Coral Reefs goes to…
Anyone who can come up with an easy and fast product to glue larger corals underwater. Or smaller for that matter!
A major importer who can drag their feet from the 80s to this century. We have had pretty much the same fish and invertebrates available for more than 20 years now, maybe it’s time you start to expand the selection? We do not want the largest members of the genus, we want the smallest! And please, pick up any Indo-Pacific field guide so that you can see the huge selection you could offer.
Anyone who can design and execute a well accepted test for skimmer performance.
Anyone who will popularize PAR meters among aquarists.
Author who writes a book about reef aquariums that really provides new information, ideas and experimental results. If you think about it, very few such books exist.
Randy Holmes-Farley
I agree with all of the above. A skimmer test would be great.
Are you kidding me? Nearly all of your listed points are already well represented and executed, let me dispell them for you.
-”an easy and fast product to glue larger corals underwater”
Mix plater and concrete in ratios which either sets quickly (more plaster) or is harder when it is set (more concrete), I have done this diving underwater with 20# diploria colonies.
-”We have had pretty much the same fish and invertebrates available for more than 20 years now”
Are you kidding me? Have you even looked around at the livestock these days? We’ve had more availability of livestock in the last 5 yrs than we ever had. Bali Acros, Aussie Mussids, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia like Dendros, Balanos and Rhizos, and rare fish galore. African fish, gem tangs, miniature blennies and more nano gobies than you can shake a stick at. You’d be hard pressed to name a field guide fish that I haven’t seen show up just in the last few years.
-”Anyone who can design and execute a well accepted test for skimmer performance.”
Ken Feldman just proposed such a process which he elaborated in Advanced Aquarist, guess what it’s called? The Development of a Method for the Quantitative Evaluation of Protein Skimmer Performance. http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2009/1/aafeature2
-”Anyone who will popularize PAR meters among aquarists”
This is one of your valid points however, it is on reefers to pick up the call to arms. Dana and Sanjay have done their fare share to encourage and educate reefers about PAR meters and many reef clubs have a community PAR meter which gets past around to members.
-”Author who writes a book about reef aquariums that really provides new information, ideas and experimental results. If you think about it, very few such books exist”
I got your back on this one. Unfortunately the people who are doing the real experiments are too busy to write books.
Much Respect for you, RHF.
Jake,
Thank you for your comment, unfortunately you didn’t convince me…