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MSilvia
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Highly recommended reading!localdivah:
News flash: Lobsters like rocks
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The author, Trevor Corson, keeps an amusing (and pretty personal!) blog: http://www.secretlifeoflobsters.com/
LobstaMan
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I did read the book over a year ago. I don't remember the urine-greeting section. I was reading it in the hopes of finding some inside info on how to find 'em, catch 'em and eat 'em. Obviously, it didn't work last year.
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Kennedydive
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I've swam past 5 of these concrete structures. There is some marine life attaching themselves to the concrete and eventually they will be an artificial reef. As far as chemicals are concerned in making the structure, could be possible but I've seen many a lobster on oil tankers, inside subs, and in very polluted water and they don't seem to care about chemicals. My guess is that either it does not have the proper attractive entrances or that it hasn't been down long enough yet to become apart of the bottom.
As far as my understanding goes the reason for the reef balls being placed in the water was because a land developer had to fork over money for this project in order to be permitted to increase his land out into the water.
JK
As far as my understanding goes the reason for the reef balls being placed in the water was because a land developer had to fork over money for this project in order to be permitted to increase his land out into the water.
JK
gt3073b
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I wonder how sensitive Lobsters are to tiny changes in pH?
When I used to keep aquariums, mixing coral bits with concrete was suggested as an eco-friendly alternativet to importing live-rock. Every variation of the technique said you must first cure the artificial concrete reefs in fresh water for at least 1 year, with monthly fresh water changes before adding to an aquarium. Concrete takes a very long time to fully cure and it really plays havoc with the water pH. Now granted the ocean is huge and would dilute this, but maybe in the crevices where there is less water turnover the pH goes nuts?
When I used to keep aquariums, mixing coral bits with concrete was suggested as an eco-friendly alternativet to importing live-rock. Every variation of the technique said you must first cure the artificial concrete reefs in fresh water for at least 1 year, with monthly fresh water changes before adding to an aquarium. Concrete takes a very long time to fully cure and it really plays havoc with the water pH. Now granted the ocean is huge and would dilute this, but maybe in the crevices where there is less water turnover the pH goes nuts?
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