call for help, photographs of disease in tanks anyone?

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We have been asked to conduct a review on coral diseases in the wild and those within aquarium, we do however need some photographs of these specific diseases' and those predicted to be the casual agents of said disease/syndrome.
Therefore this is a call to anyone who has high quality photographs from the list below to aid in the review;

A list of the photographs we require are below;

1. White syndrome in aquarium
2. Vibrio harveyi
3. Brown Band Disease in the field
4. Helicostoma ciliate sp.
5. Brown Jelly Syndrome
6. Cyanobacterium responsible for black band
7. red slime algae in aquarium
8. Cyanobacetrium responsible for red slime algae
9. red bugs Tegastes acroporanus in the wild
10. close up of T. acroporanus
11. red bugs in aquarium
12. Acropora Eating Flatworm (AEF) in aquaria
13. flat worm infested coral, Wamineo sp.

Obviously all photographs will be acknowledged in full, please attach the reference you would like us to use and if you would like to aid substantially in the review this would also be welcome as co-authorship.

Please email any figures and attached refs to m.j.sweet@ncl.ac.uk As high res photographs as possible would be desirable

Yours faithfully

Michael Sweet

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hope some of you guys can help with this, i appreciate its an unusal call but it will help hobbiests and biologists alike and so is an important issue in coral circles
cheers
Mike

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I like this ideal.

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yeah its an important issue yet no one seems to be coming forward with the photos lol, i hope someone will see this soon, it doesn't matter what quality they are i will hopefully sift through those i get and produce a good figure

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Well this is a New to the Hobby forum. This sounds fairly commercial and I'm not sure it's allowed here at all.

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Dear Debi, its a non for profit making add, all we are trying to do is try and help conserve coral reefs in general, this sort of attitute is miss placed and uneducated;

Many reef coral diseases have been described affecting corals in the wild, several of which have been associated with causal agents based on experimental inoculation and testing of Koch’s postulates. In the aquarium industry, many coral diseases and pathologies are known from the grey literature but these have not been systematically described and the relationship to known diseases in the wild is difficult to determine. There is therefore scope to aid the maintenance and husbandry of corals in aquaria by informing the field of the scientifically described wild diseases, if these can be reliably related. Conversely, since the main driver to identifying coral diseases in aquaria is to select an effective treatment, the lessons learnt by aquarists in which treatments work with particular syndromes provides invaluable evidence for determining the causal agents. Such treatments are generally not sought by scientists working in the natural environment due the cost and potential environmental impacts of the treatments. Here we review both wild and aquarium diseases and attempt to relate the two. In general, many important aquarium diseases could not be reconciled to those in the wild. In one case, however, namely that of the ciliate Helicostoma sp. as a causal agent of Brown Jelly Syndrome in aquarium corals, we show strong similarities with known agents of wild coral diseases White Syndrome and Brown Band Disease. We propose that Helicostoma is actually a misnomer, but improved understanding of this pathogen and others could benefit both fields. Improved practices in aquarium maintenance and husbandry would also benefit natural environments by reducing the scale of wild harvest and improving the potential for coral culture, both for the aquarium industry and for rehabilitation programmes.


the paper is for no other reason other than I and the journal editors belive it to be an important issue, no one makes any money from this sort of thing