Today, I will begin accepting data to construct a multi-faceted coral disease database. This database aims to draw correlations from multiple data points in relation to coral disease. We would like both quantitative and qualitative data. If you have ever had an outbreak of coral disease and sent in ICP, N-DOC, or Aquabiomics during that time, please contact me at [email protected] and fill out the Google form linked below.
The advent of new testing and existing correlations between different trace elements, carbon concentrations, and coral disease in academic literature has laid the pathway for the industry to begin amassing data to substantiate these hypotheses and test if they apply to our systems.
For the first time, we can peek at our tank from a multi-omics perspective and analyze the microbiome, metabolome, and choice environmental metabolites simultaneously. Hopefully, as the database continues to be built, some conserved correlations can be drawn between organic carbon, trace concentrations, and the microbiome to elute more about coral pathology in closed environments.
Each person with a reef tank in the world represents a sample size of one; thus, if we all band together to test and share the data from when things go wrong (or right) in our tanks, we can begin to glean a much better understanding of how to care for the animals we all love.
