samnaz Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Awesome!!! I want to see more! Quote Link to comment
mitten_reef Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 This is very interesting!! Is that Zooxanthellae being "ejected"? Or individual tissue cells "peeling off"? Do you have the non-microscope image of what part of the acropora we're looking at, i.e. the branch, the corallite, the base, etc? Quote Link to comment
microworld Posted May 20, 2017 Author Share Posted May 20, 2017 15 hours ago, micoastreefing said: This is very interesting!! Is that Zooxanthellae being "ejected"? Or individual tissue cells "peeling off"? Do you have the non-microscope image of what part of the acropora we're looking at, i.e. the branch, the corallite, the base, etc? Yes, that is the zooxanthellae being expelled. Due to my own observation, the coral tissue seems to liquefy, expelling coral pieces, as well as the zooxanthellae. The sample was taken from a branch, not a the tip. I do not have a picture unfortunately, and the coral is no longer 1 Quote Link to comment
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