Good morning friends, I have some cool example of “Natural Coral Letters” for your viewing pleasure today that were recently photographed just outside on our Substation reef with a 105 macro lens. What your looking at is a type (no pun intended) of stony corals called Brain Coral which can include, Symmetrical Brain coral, Knobby Brain Coral and Grooved Brain Corals and they all have these fun letters. I am still searching for some of the hard to find letters like an “A”, “O”, “P” and a “Z” but have most of the others. I also have photographed some that look like animals and fun shapes or faces and patterns so divers next time your out stop and really look at a giant colony of brain coral and see if you can spot something cool!! Brain coral is a common name given to corals in the family Faviidae so called due to their generally spheroid shape and grooved surface which resembles a brain. Each head of coral is formed by a colony of genetically identical polyps which secrete a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate; this makes them important coral reef builders like other stony corals in the order Scleractinia MORE… More:
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