Overview of Sponges

Although commonly regarded as the most primitive multicellular animal group, sponges – members of the phylum: Porifera, are both diverse and interesting. Currently, this phylum is described as consisting almost completely of 3 distinct classes: Demospongea, Calcarea,...

CORAL Featured Video: Bali Underwater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUk9K9TQhg Nick Hope’s Bali Diving Scuba diving in Bali, Indonesia, in September 2007 with AquaMarine Diving. We travel to the USAT Liberty shipwreck at Tulamben, see Mola Mola at Crystal Bay, a Whitetip Reef Shark at Nusa Penida, and lots of underwater macro critters such as nudibranchs and shrimps from Coral Garden, Seraya Secrets and Puri Jati. Shot in September 2007 with http://www.AquaMarineDiving.com, an excellent scuba diving operator in Bali. Editor:  To see ID Captions of the species shown, click the small [CC] Icon at the bottom right of the screen. Recommended.

Montipora Invasion!

For someone that loves acropora as much as I do, I sit here tonight staring at my beautiful 250 gallon mother colony system wondering how it ended up seventy five percent full of montipora colonies.…