I thought Coral planting was a slow process, well for hard corals it is BUT for soft corals it is amazingly rapid. We have just learnt a technique for splitting coralimorphs ( mushroom corals) that is simple and non invasive. We went for a pleasure dive on a reef near another island. Cruised along the [...]
Snorkelling is no fun in the UK! I know it is a personal opinion but this is my blog post and I just died and arrived in heaven. We went snorkelling for 2h and nobody wanted to get out of the water. Floating over the blue looking down as massive schools of fish go about [...]
Coralimorphs are very aggressive soft corals, they spread quickly over the available substrate. They frequently out compete other reef organisms by simply growing over the top of them. On the reef, it is common to find corralimorph colonies that are completely dome shaped, they grew over and killed the original brain coral. This post [...]
TRACC was host to 2 French students who worked for their university research project on soft coral planting techniques. During the course of their studies the students replanted a large area of rubble with corralimporphs of many species as well as sea fans and sponges. Plastic straws were used as [...]