Everyone likes to swim in pristine waters and be surrounded by coloured fish and amazing coral formations, but to maintain this beautiful reef, we need to monitor its health regularly! The monitoring and the assessment of the reefs are essential tools for management and can provide information to detect changes in condition that might [...]
The crown-of-thorns (Acanthaster planci) is a starfish native to coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific region. The starfish A. planci eating a coral Generally, on healthy coral reefs, this coral-eating starfish plays a special role, as it tends to feed on the fastest growing corals such as stag-horns and plate corals, allowing slower [...]
On the 15th of October 2014, we deployed our 4th coral frame. We started out with a steel frame and after weeks of prepping we finally have a frame that is suitable for coral growth. We have many more frames to put down around our house reef in an attempt to restore our coral reef [...]
