I almost posted about it being a big mansplain post but then I felt uncomfortable using the phrase since I'm a dude and I didn't want to annoy people.The whole thing reads like a professor giving a lecture, during which he posits the condition and treatment of the live rock with the purpose of eliciting argument.
It honestly got very tl;dr for me — a lot of hot air. I also suspect that with English as a second language, the questioning may be phrased a completely different way in his head.