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Originally posted by fijiblue
Here is a theory on the browning during shipping. The coral gets bagged in oxygen rich water (hopefully) . During shippment, it is dark which means the cellular respiration is taking place. Since the coral is in a small bag of water, the oxygen is depleated rather quickly and CO2 levels begin to rise. Since there is no light then to convert the CO2 into sugars through photosynthesis, the coral has to directly absorb these carbon sources. Since this would affect the zoox department, the reproduction increases to utilize the energy...aside from any die off that would increase waste levels and further increase zoox population.
Just one of many I can come up with.
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I don't want to come off as a jerk, but that is nowhere close to physically possible.
The corals cannot do anything with CO2. The zoox. can fix CO2 in the presense of light (or shortly after having been exposed to light), but without the chemical potential energy produced in the cell that is gained by initially capturing light, the zoox. can't do anything with CO2.
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Seems odd that zoox can reproduce faster without photosynthesis though.
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Only because it's not possible
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