Scientific name: Porites lobata
Size: From 2.5 to 10 foot
Color: Beige, brown, yellow
Distinguishing feature: Very massive block, looks like a lava flow very porous when you touch it
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt
Scientific name: Porites lobata
Size: From 2.5 to 10 foot
Color: Beige, brown, yellow
Distinguishing feature: Very massive block, looks like a lava flow very porous when you touch it
Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt
It's one of the most important corals, especially in the Indian Ocean, Pacific and Red Sea.
It's also a coral that grows very slowly, about 0.4 inch / year, but its body is very solid.
Thanks to the hardness of this body, when it dies, it becomes a substrate on which many organisms come to live.
This makes it one of the bioconstructive corals, which actively participates in the construction of coral reefs.
It's the most common species of Porite genus coral.
The tiger shark has slender marks similars to the lines of tigers, hence its name.
When it is juvenile, these marks are round and not vertical. They change when it grows.
We can hear the bull shark is very dangerous because of attacks near La Réunion island.
However, tens of them are living at 600 feet from the famous beach of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico. And there are no attacks.
Parrotfish create a protective envelope around them when they are sleeping.
So, don't put the light on them during night dive to don't to wake them up and break this envelope.
