From: PLai@cup.portal.com (Patrick L Faith)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Reef & Breeders News Journal - call for papers
Date: Thu,  9 Apr 92 20:42:48 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

I was thinking about putting together a quasi-monthly newsjournal for reef
breeders on the net.  I'd put together the basic newsjournal, and
I need a list of people that could review/edit/write articles. I'd also
like another person to write the tropical editors column, I'd do the
temperate editor column.        
         
This is what I've been thinking of for the format of the newsjournal:

  Tropical Editors Notes - thoughts from the tropical editor

  Temperate Editors Notes - thoughts from the temperate editor

  The Basics - an entry level article that will tend to be a bit
               redundant over the issues, but would slowly go over
               basic reef breeding concepts.

  Advanced Briefs - possibly 3 brief articles per issue that would explain a
                    technique in full, scientific 
                    data needed to breed reef organisms, or a problem
                    that has general interest.

  Breeder Setup - a highlight of someones reef tank/breeder setup that
                  is having good reproductive rates.

  Batches - a monthly blow by blow about how some batch is doing - i.e. someone
            has a trunicate "spawning" and we see for a couple of months how
            things progress.

The articles would be written in a informal scientific format - i.e. 
don't worry about footnoting or having reems of experimental data ...
but writings should rest on real experiences/experiments.

The newsjournal would be distributed once a month using a general post
across alt.aquaria,sci.aquaria,rec.aquaria and also on compuserve, and
any other net that someone wants to just put it on, and/or paper 
reprint, and/or archive.  I think mailing list get to be a hassle.

I'd like the tropical editor to set the agenda of what he/she would
like to see as a focus for the tropical stuff.

As the temperate editor (north american reefs mainly),  reef breeding
is perty much available to any one that wants to try, so I'd like
to focus on home aquarist with small operations.  Breeding temperate
reef species is a lot like breeding guppies instead of breeding tropical
corals: there are fewer species to breed, but each species has a lot
of variations and is realitively easy to propogate.  Breeding temperate
invertabrates relies more on "tricks" and basic operations, then having
computer controlled setups and sophisticated water quality approaches.

For example, one collector was telling me a month ago how to breed
orange cup corals - mine have been slowly dieing off ( I had a small
spawing but the babies never did develop to a decent size).  He was having
the same broblem till he decided to just crack the polyps off at the
base, and super-glue them onto rocks randomly ( no idea why he thought
this would work - just random experimenting ? ).  Anyway he found
that by doing this the little wormy coral babies would crawl out of the
polyp at a much higher rate, and do very well !  This is what I mean by
a "trick" - something you wouldn't normally think of, and has little to
do with water quality.  I'm sure tropical breeders have some of the
same type of tricks, though I don't know how much of an overlap in tricks
there will be between tropical and temperate breeding.

Any way  ... Comments, Questions, Contributors  Please :)

                                         PLai
      
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