What is Blue Coral?
Blue Coral is a type of camera coral commonly occurring in tropical cliffs or slopes in the southern hemisphere of the Pacific Ocean. This coral acquires its name from the blue color of its skeleton, which is also very desirable in the tourist store. The scientific name for Blue Coral is Heliopor Coerulea .
Although coral often looks more plants, it is actually an animal. Hard bony structures that people commonly associate with coral are actually a skeleton that is excreted polyps, moving parts of the coral. The skeleton of each polyp is associated with others and creates a colony. Like most stone corals, polyps are small in blue coral. Each polyp has a truck at one end that is attached to the colony, and eight tentacles around his mouth at the other end. It is also rarely found around Fiji. He usually lives in Shallow's water, less than 6.6 feet (2 m) deep. The colonies vary in size, but some can reach over 6 miles (10 km) across. Looking with the surrounding environment with the wheelNie usually calls a coral reef that provides a wide range of animals and plants.
Like most corals, the blue coral is a hermatypical coral. Hermatypic corals live in symbiosis with algae called zooxanthellae, which inhabit coral tissue and enjoy the protection of the colony. Although coral is not capable of photosynthesis, algae are and nutrients produced are shared between algae and corals.
Blue coral reproduces sexually. The polyp called Booding will grow one or two larvae inside the eggs in its body. As soon as they hatch and outside the polyp, the larvae connect to the colony. The larvae cannot swim, so any movement from the superior polyp is caused by ocean currents.
Although Blue Coral is often considered common in the areas of which it is located, like most corals, is endangered by pollution and excessive fishing that often cause the destruction of fine cliff environments. In addition, this coral is also harvested for trade. Blue Coral was made of jewelry or used in aquariums and was at the end of the 80s for most of the 90s. Now the colonies can be in protected areas of the ocean, which limits the destruction of their environment, but many of them are still harvested for trade.