Thought provoking image

[Troy Valentine]

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/8561/016szk1.jpg

Amazing!

[Scream311]

Speechless...

[SoLiD]

Though I've seen something similar to that picture before.

IT'S STILL AN INSANE PICTURE TO LOOK AT!!!!

[FireWater]

That is pretty wicked. Makes me not feel bad during water changes anymore.
One of those survivor bug eating dudes on tv was on a deserted island and talked about using the coral slime as sunscreen.

[FireWater]

Look in the water around the exposed coral. There are colonies every where.

[ismvel]

Where is this and when is the next MAAST collection trip????? LOL

[Bill S]

I've said for ever: Corals don't have the ability to "move" when things get ugly. They are WAY more resilient than we think - and way more than fish are. I've been on a reef where the water was in the 90s. No, they aren't "happy", but the do just fine.

[cbianco]

A couple more for you Troy...

Per our conversation earlier and in support of a few comments here, corals are definately not as finiky as many reefkeepers make them out to be. Corals that are spoiled turn out to be...well...spoiled. Let's toughen those corals up and protect them against Al Gore global warming cbianco, FireWater, Troy Valentine, etc...!

Christopher :)

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_3/cav3i1/Change_is_good/tonga_pics/acres_of_exposed_corals.JPG

http://www.habadive.com.au/uploads/pics/low-tide.jpg

[CoryDude]

There was a good article about how corals on the mesoamerican reef are adapting to higher water temps. Where are those pics from? Indonesia?

[Troy Valentine]

I've seen similar reefs in Tahiti and the Cook Islands. Interesting how all the colonies grow to a similar size/mass. There isn't any one colony that dwarf all the others.

[ZeroHour]

I have a blue wave that dried for a day due to parasites. 24+ hours I dried it as it was on the brink of death and it came back in force. I fragged 40% of it to a friend in Colorado and its come back 100%