6d4aa2f0-09c7-47ae-924c-5a9560e41eaa urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-06-23T10:55:17 creation ISO 19115 2016 Coral-fish tank-based nutrient interactions 6d4aa2f0-09c7-47ae-924c-5a9560e41eaa To investigate the potential nutrient enrichment of corals by fish wastes, Acropora kenti, Pocillopora verrucosa, Poritesa lutea and Platygyra daedalea colonies were collected from the GBR in Feb 2022, then returned to AIMS's National Sea Simulator. Coral were sampled for protein/symbiont density, then fragmented into smaller (~10g) pieces and aloowed to recover and acclimate to the captive conditions for 1.5 months. Corals were then randomally allocated to treatments where they were either 1) kept with a school of 10 juvenile Chromis viridis fed a pelleted diet, 2) supplied filtered water from a tank housing C. viridis, 3) fed live feeds (enriched Artemia/rotifers and microalgae mix) whilst maintained with C. viridis, 4) supplied only with the live feeds, 5) supplied with a pelleted fish diet without C. viridis, and 6) not supplied feeds and without C. viridis, with four replicate tanks per treatment. During the experiment survival of corals was monitored, growth was measured using bouyant weight and photosynthetic efficiency tracked using dark adapated maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm). At the end of the experiment, a subset of the samples were frozen and tissue stripped using high-pressure air and filtered seawater. The resulting tissue slurry was homogenised, then used to measure protein contect via a BCA assay and symbiont density using a BD Acurri C6 Flow Cytometer. Water quailty samples were taken weekly throughout the experiment, and analysed for NH4, NO2, NO3, PO4, DOC, PN and PC. Fish were anaethatised using Aqui-S at the end of the experiment and weighed. {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [147.05573558807376, -19.26759922009766]} 147.05573558807376 147.05573558807376 -19.26759922009766 -19.26759922009766 Coral survival data documentDigital Coral survival data CSV Coral photosynthetic efficiency measurements documentDigital Coral photosynthetic efficiency measurements CSV Coral symbiont counts and protein measurements documentDigital Coral symbiont counts and protein measurements CSV Coral growth measured as buoyant weight documentDigital Coral growth measured as buoyant weight CSV Water quality measurements - particulate documentDigital Water quality measurements - particulate CSV Water quality measurements - dissolved documentDigital Water quality measurements - dissolved CSV Data dictionary documentDigital Data dictionary DOCX Fish weights documentDigital Fish weights CSV Link to code repository: https://github.com/blue-bio/coral_fish_nutrition_public documentDigital Link to code repository: https://github.com/blue-bio/coral_fish_nutrition_public HTML Neil, Rachel C., Barton, Jonathan A., Heyward, Andrew, Francis, David S., Nankervis, Leo, Mock, Thomas S., Bourne, David G., Humphrey, Craig, Improving Coral Grow-Out Through an Integrated Aquaculture Approach, Aquaculture Nutrition, 2025, 1446195, 13 pages, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1155/anu/1446195 documentDigital Neil, Rachel C., Barton, Jonathan A., Heyward, Andrew, Francis, David S., Nankervis, Leo, Mock, Thomas S., Bourne, David G., Humphrey, Craig, Improving Coral Grow-Out Through an Integrated Aquaculture Approach, Aquaculture Nutrition, 2025, 1446195, 13 pages, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1155/anu/1446195 HTML AIMS Web Site documentDigital audio/basic AIMS Web Site documentDigital audio/basic AIMS Web Site documentDigital audio/basic AIMS Web Site documentDigital audio/basic Unnamed resource documentDigital License Graphic PNG Unnamed resource documentDigital HTML