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Rapid Growth
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Talima
The corals have expanded. The juveniles have grown in schools. The reef is abuzz with marine organisms you can expect to find in fully established coral reefs. There are full-size parrots, surgeons and triggers, longfin banners, bats, morays and groupers. The macros are here too: colorful slugs, camouflaged ghost pipefish and banded shrimps with its usual tiny white-and-pink crab companions on anemones. Table corals have sprung up almost overnight. I maneuvered inside an opening adorned with overhanging gorgonians. As I exited, I looked up to a school of jacks slowly circling and turning themselves tight into a ball.
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