New Coral Reef Discovery (cold water reef)

[Erica-Renee]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ff-atlantic-coast_us_5b81c298e4b0cd327dfd415e


Thoughts, Opinions .... ???

 

[Sallstrom]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...ff-atlantic-coast_us_5b81c298e4b0cd327dfd415e


Thoughts, Opinions .... ???

That's great news! Lophelia pertusa is a stony coral, an aquarist would call it a LPS. Grows a bit like Euphyllia, but much thinner branches and all white.
We got small deep water reefs with Lophelia corals in Sweden and Norway as well. From 85 meter deep and deeper. Unfortunately trawl fishing has destroyed most of these reefs, but at least some areas are nowadays protected.

We hope to exhibit this type of ecosystem at my work, a public aquarium, in the future. But it's not a species you buy at your LFS :) So we are trying to find a way to get them with all the proper CITES papers.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[norfolkgarden]

There is always more to learn.

 

[User1]

Ocean covers what, 70% or more of Earth? No surprise for discovery.