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Coral are animals not plants, so they aren't herbivores

@@miguelmartins5968 i was referring to them grazes algae

​@@miguelmartins5968herbivore means that it only eats plants, not that it is a plant

@@rootbeerncy all over the place. They are small but doing well. Recovery takes time but that spot has lots of different species getting started. It’ worth complementing the work that got that reef where it is.

@@Cgraseck UNTIL you clean up that ocean of the gulf oil spill, tires, pollution, sargassum, oil pipelines, shipwreck debris, etc., its not going anywhere soon. Florida used to be the great barrier reef of the united states. Its all dead down there. All tropical fish are GONE and over fished. Instead of complimenting something that is completely dead, you should be pontificating how much we still need to clean up. We had TONS of colorful plant life in the 60s everywhere in south florida......ITS DEAD. There was no such thing as a red tide either. The ocean is sick EVERYWHERE and even more dead in the pacific thanks to Fukushima. The great barrier reef is close to death and the last place to have a pre-pollution reef. Even the everglades have shrunk and close to gone for real estate. Miami politicians emptying vast amounts of sewerage in the bay. I watched an entire beautiful pristine eco system go to shit in my lifetime. To get that again would take a miracle or at least a million years in the future when hopefully man dies off. EVERY major body of water on the earth at this moment in history is horrifically polluted. Even the Hopi Indians predicted this....and still people like you dont get it. The only corals that are going to survive and thrive right now are in aquariums. Everything else doesn't stand a chance. There is so much oil silt on the bottom of the gulf from 2010 corexit sinking all that oil back into the ocean. Get that cleaned up and you might stand a chance. Right now, any boat that pulls out of a miami harbor kicks up tons of this crap that just sits there and kicks up oil sheen if moved. This is what happens.....it grows a little and dies ua-cam.com/video/FIkGGtg-r4s/v-deo.html&ab_channel=CoralMorphologic

Good question! The overall shape (morphology) of the colony is determined by how the individual polyps create a crystalline calcium carbonate structure that collectively produces the structure. As the polyps clone and divide they accumlate into 'coral head'. The shape of the coral head is also influenced by how much sunlight and water flow it is receiving.

Cool, thanks!