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Coral:
Coral is an animal. Corals are normally divided into hard corals or soft corals. It is their skeletons which make the reef. A single coral is called a polyp of a few millimetres and each produces its own external skeleton. They usually group together and form the coral we see. As they grow their old skeletons build the reef.
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There's a small Gorgonian extending its tentacles just below the
butterfly fish
Picture by Caver Colin, Dogsbreath Diver
Gorgonian extended.
Picture by
http://photos.yahoo.com/magicpudding in the Philippines
We don't know which type these are:
Picture by www.subwayscuba.com
Picture by
www.oceanquestdivecenter.com
in Florida, USA
The soft coral is growing out of the wall
