The week we have a quick listener question from Mark, then we move on to an interview. In this Interview Jake Adams interviews Alina Szmant. During this interview they dive into the details behind coral reproductions and current research efforts.

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sweeet, i am like a kid a christmas on this podcast !! it is going onto the ipod tonight so i can give it a listen tomarrow (all day) at work !!! thanx a million buddy !!

This is so cool. I was thinking it would be fun to breed corals in captivity.

This is so cool. I was thinking it would be fun to breed corals in captivity.

I agree. You are welcome to join our 2007 Project DIBS Breeder challenges, we will be attempting to breed two species of coral and one species of snail/shrimp.

The snail/shrimp doesn't start until June, but the coral attempts will start in February:

2007 Breeder Challenge #1: Manicina areolata (Linnaeus, 1758) (http://www.projectdibs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=300)

2007 Breeder Challenge #2: Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758) (http://www.projectdibs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=301)

Eric Borneman and I will be participating in both challenges and several other Project DIBS members as well. It should be an interesting experience. Maybe we can get Jake Adams to pop in :)

Brian