harlequin shrimp

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  1. Bruce

    Bruce Giant Squid

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    Man...I never thought about the harlequin eating the crown of thorn sea star...man...i will never get one!
     
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  2. My2heartboys

    My2heartboys Fire Worm

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    Thanks, Bruce---pass the lesson along!!!!! :) I know Discovery Channel has lots of documentaries done on our reefs (I wish I could afford to get them all) for anybody who is interested in getting the highlights of the problems facing our reefs. Like I said highlights---not the whole set of problems.

    Reefbuzz--if you know of other resources--please clue us all in.

    Anne
     
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  3. reefbuzz

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  4. amcarrig

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    I must be an ogre because I'm not.
     
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  5. Bruce

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    Lol...its ok...i have a feeling that the ammount of those little angel shrimpies are being harvested...its not making that much of a diff...besides the majority of coral are not being killed by the stars. :(
     
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  6. amcarrig

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    Well, the documentary that I saw that I think everybody else is talking about said that harlequins do little to nothing to help keep down the population of the crown of thorns. One reason being because they usually only eat a leg or two from a passing star and not the entire animal which can wander off and continue to live and propogate. Another reason being that the population of crown of thorns is far too high due to human influence in the environment for the shimp to make any kind of impact on their populations.
     
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  7. Bruce

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    yup. Man...i wish there way somthing we could do besides the obvious donating of money...can you save 3reef save the reef field trip?
     
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  8. amcarrig

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    You could protest the tons of fertilizer that's being dumped into the ocean which causes an algae bloom which feeds the planktonic starfish allowing more of their numbers to live to maturity, etc. etc. :)
     
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  10. My2heartboys

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    Hey, might as well toss a "save our wetlands" field trip in on that too!!!!! :) A big contributor to the current problem is the destruction of our wetlands as well. Our wetlands are the ones that take up all of the extra nutrients before the water gets to the ocean.

    Anne
     
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