Do you think any of this coral will survive?

[Bill S]

A little off topic, but bstreep, you said you were a molecular biologist and I was just curious if you were still working as one and where you went to school at? I am also a molecular biologist so its always good to meet others with the same interests.

And just to throw in my 2 cents about test kits. IMO the only way to go to get truly accurate results is to use a a spectrophotometer instrument like the ones made by Hanna that read the "color" for you and use powdered reagents as well. These are very expensive but will give you the most accurate results short of using an even more expensive nutrient analyzer.

No, I'm now a Real Estate Appraiser. I was in a PhD Program in Molecular Genetics at Rice University, in Houston. I left and got a real job at the end of my first year - there were folks getting their PhDs from Rice and not finding jobs!

Yes, one of the other problems with test kits that use color charts, is that depending upon lighting and individual eyes, we see them differently! That might make a good MAAST topic for a meeting - and do some tests, pass them around and see how much variation we get between observers!

[Squiers007]

No, I'm now a Real Estate Appraiser. I was in a PhD Program in Molecular Genetics at Rice University, in Houston. I left and got a real job at the end of my first year - there were folks getting their PhDs from Rice and not finding jobs!

Yes, one of the other problems with test kits that use color charts, is that depending upon lighting and individual eyes, we see them differently! That might make a good MAAST topic for a meeting - and do some tests, pass them around and see how much variation we get between observers!

Oh ok, I just got my MS in Biology from A&M here in Corpus and will be starting the PhD program in Sept. I plan on going into academics so I'm hoping finding a job wont be terrible. My main focus is on coral genetics and more specifically Hydrozoans. For my Thesis I did DNA sequencing of two species of Fire Coral from the Bahamas to look at relatedness.

I do think that your idea of testing for differences in the colors people see would be a fun experiment and I'm sure that there would be plenty variation in everyones results.