The Unicorn Coral, Acropora multiacuta spotted in Manado, Sulawesi

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Acropora multiacuta is one of those unicorn corals, one you see in a book, but never truly believe you can find it in the wild. And then in the most unexpected place, it appears. We stumbled across this rare coral specimens while scuba diving in Northern Sulawesi at the Batas Kota dive site. It wasn’t a coral […]

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Looks like it has AEFW bites from the pics, unless those are just polyps
 

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AEFW is common in the wild but there are so many predators of them they coexist with the corals.:)
 

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