There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish. |
It is nonetheless a beautiful shallow reef with huge areas of elk and staghorn coral sheltering shoals of grunt, snapper and goatfish. |
Fields of staghorn coral are parted only for bushels of anemone and host clownfish. |
You see here the elk or staghorn fern, which grows as a parasite on the palm or the petosperum of New Zealand. |
Beautiful table and staghorn corals cover the topside structures offering divers spectacular vistas. |
But remarkably, the new coral takes only a few years to establish itself on the heaps of ruined staghorn coral. |