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Coral Kingdom
Pacific Reefs
An Artificial Reef
Coral Kingdom
A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Oysters could not survive long once the other fouling organisms covered them over.
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A typical school of the surgeon fish, Acanthurus olivaceus, grazing on algae during the time when filamentous algae were abundant.This period occurred soon after placement of the pipes and the redand green filamentous algae were replace with blue-gre
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A mixed school of surgeon fish grazing on algae during the time when filamentous algae were abundant. This period occurred soon after placement of the pipes and the red and green filamentous algae were replaced with blue-green algae at a later stag
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Surgeon fish, Naso unicornis, Acanthurus olivaceus, Acanthurus dussumieri, on reef during a low slightly greater turbidity episode.
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A mixed school of surgeon fish grazing on algae during the time when filamentous algae were abundant. This period occurred soon after placement of the pipes and the red and green filamentous algae were replaced with blue-green algae at a later stag
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A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Oysters could not survive long once the other fouling organisms covered them over. You can
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A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells. Oysters could not survive long once the other fouling organisms covered them over. You can
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A typical invertebrate grouping found on the interior roof of the pipes consisting primarily of bryozoa, tunicates and sponges over the top of oyster shells.
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Night time photo of nudibranch egg mass placed on the pipe surfaces within days of placement.
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A permanent grid station showing outline of sample grid, stainlesssteel screw used to attach the nylon line, and the invertebrate community typical of the inside roof of pipe.
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A permanent grid station showing outline of sample grid, stainlesssteel screw used to attach the nylon line, and the invertebrate community typical of the inside roof of pipe.
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Holocentrus sp., squirrel fish, in typical habitat between pipes. Red areas on pipe are coralline algae.
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Broyozoa, oysters, sponges on interior roof of concrete pipe.Community is characteristic of mature interior reef surface. You can see scrape marks from grazing fish on dark and light green colonies of bryozoa.
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Bryozoa, oysters, corraline algae, sponges on interior roof of concrete pipe. Community is characteristic of mature interior reef surface.
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Corraline algae and a colony of ahermatypic(no zooxanthellae algae in tissues and non-reefbuilding) coral , pink, Tubastraea sp.
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Corralline algae, erect byrozoa(tan) Reteporellina sp. and ahermatypic(no zooxanthellae algae in tissues and non-reefbuilding) coral, on interior roof of pipe.
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Newly colonized interior roof pipe surface with oysters and small white colonies of colonial tunicates (Didemnid sp.)
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Mixed school of goatfish, Parupeneus multifasciatus, Parapeneus pleurostigma, and Chaetodon miliaris.
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Surgeon fish, Acanthurus sp, in inside of pipe on artificial reef.
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Intermediate age community of upright bryozoa, reteporellina sp., oysters( mostly covered), and tunicates. The large, tan, upright bryozoa usuallybreakaway from the surface once they become too big.
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