Articles tagged: skeleton
- Deep dive
Iodine and Bromine in the Reef Aquarium — the halogens that rarely get measured
Iodine speciation (iodate, iodide, organic), bromine's role in skeletal construction and chromoprotein synthesis, deficiency and overdose symptoms, supplementation, and measurement.
- Basics
Calcium — the skeleton's building block
What corals are built from, why calcium depletes, magnesium's role in the calcium system and what happens when calcium drops too low.
- Deep dive
Phosphate deep dive — biochemistry, the skeleton and open questions
Phosphate forms in water, phosphate as the cell's fundamental molecule, the one-way path into the skeleton, calcification inhibition biochemistry, particulate phosphate and Liebig vs. Redfield.