amir basis
Community Member
hey all,
i stumbled upon this article at the BBC website and thought to share it with you. i think its needless to say that as people passionate about corals and all marine life we all worry about the coral reefs around the world in-light of the global changes.
a few months ago i was on a holiday in the city of Eilat that's located at the shores of gulf of Aqaba after about 8 years i haven't been there. i was absolutely astonished to wetness the total growth and improvement of the corals there. massive beautiful colonies of Acropora, millepora Tridacna, pocilloporas and what not with vibrant healthy colors. i could see at depth of less than 50 c"m on rocks huge purple green brain corals and many small new frags even in the murky water of the yacht marina. it was truly an uplifting experience.
here are some pictures i took with my phone(from above the surface). you can't really see to the polyps level of the corals but you do get a general pic of what i mean:
View attachment VID_20190318_162254.mp4
these next picture i took from the water observatory park from their outdoor open shallow ponds. i've talked to one of the main marine biologist of the park and he said that they don't do anything to the corals (no feeding, no supplementing, no micron filtering or even cooling/heating all year round) aside from pumping water from the near shore to the pools and back, and sometimes trimming overgrown ones.
apparently, in the world's community of marine biologist there is an increasing interest in the red sea's coral reefs due to their continuing growth and resilience to the global changes in the marine ecosystems. hopefully , the salvation of the world's reefs would come from there.
here is the article, and a video of the new international research system built at the marine faculty of ben-gurion negev university in israel:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/...y4DFYs0lXyTDg7IHvPRHLKWA7cC-dO680UnjqNdI5ynD0
just wanted to share it with you all, hope it will be of your interest .
stay safe and happy reefing
i stumbled upon this article at the BBC website and thought to share it with you. i think its needless to say that as people passionate about corals and all marine life we all worry about the coral reefs around the world in-light of the global changes.
a few months ago i was on a holiday in the city of Eilat that's located at the shores of gulf of Aqaba after about 8 years i haven't been there. i was absolutely astonished to wetness the total growth and improvement of the corals there. massive beautiful colonies of Acropora, millepora Tridacna, pocilloporas and what not with vibrant healthy colors. i could see at depth of less than 50 c"m on rocks huge purple green brain corals and many small new frags even in the murky water of the yacht marina. it was truly an uplifting experience.
here are some pictures i took with my phone(from above the surface). you can't really see to the polyps level of the corals but you do get a general pic of what i mean:
View attachment VID_20190318_162254.mp4
these next picture i took from the water observatory park from their outdoor open shallow ponds. i've talked to one of the main marine biologist of the park and he said that they don't do anything to the corals (no feeding, no supplementing, no micron filtering or even cooling/heating all year round) aside from pumping water from the near shore to the pools and back, and sometimes trimming overgrown ones.
apparently, in the world's community of marine biologist there is an increasing interest in the red sea's coral reefs due to their continuing growth and resilience to the global changes in the marine ecosystems. hopefully , the salvation of the world's reefs would come from there.
here is the article, and a video of the new international research system built at the marine faculty of ben-gurion negev university in israel:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/...y4DFYs0lXyTDg7IHvPRHLKWA7cC-dO680UnjqNdI5ynD0
just wanted to share it with you all, hope it will be of your interest .
stay safe and happy reefing
