Are corals really strictly carnivorous?

"Pszemol" wrote in message
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"Croosh" wrote in message
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I stand corrected I'm by far no marine biologist, so I guess I'll
have to do some more reading.
I'm just affraid that some "dude" will read this post and try to keep
acroporas or such under 18W compact fluorescent flood light, since they
look pretty, even when bleached, and feeding well will keep them
growing.

This is a risk with Jaime posts here... they are not really aquarium
related.

Yah. Even still, he comes off as a bit of a crackpot (no offense intended
with that, I know some _genius_ crackpots... ;-).

But I don't know of another researcher who make as extensive an (ab)use of
Usenet with titillating, yet ultimately content-free, posts (OK, there _is_
one "tinfoil hat whack-o" in the sci.chem.* hierarchy, but he's freely
looney enough to be discounted after reading any one of his posts). It
ultimately only hurts his cause, if he has one. Research Ethics 101 teaches
that behavior like that is typically the purview of the classic snake-oil
vendor, and is to be avoided. It doesn't do anything to help Jaime's cause,
even if all his work itself is accurate, reputable and worthwhile.
Reputable researchers would tend more towards keeping their work "under
wraps" until it is ready for disclosure, or at least until they obtain
patent protection (from Jaime's hints, his fundamental groundwork sounds
ready enough to submit for such... What's the delay?) Hints and allusions
to a "perfect, and perfectly cheap" captive reef setup from Jaime are
abundant enough now to chafe a mostly-lurking reader reader like myself,
given their lack of actual, substantive content.

In laymans terms; it's time to s*&t, or get off the pot.

Regards,
R. David Zopf
Atom Weaver