18 years ago, a friend asked us to hold onto a clownfish for "just a few months."

You're looking down at one of our coral propagation troughs. At the top, frag racks hold WYSIWYG corals lined up for their photo shoots. Below them, larger colonies are growing out. And right in the center, swimming through that Aussie Gold Torch? Our permanent guest through three moves—the black and white clownfish who never left.

#TerraReef #Aquaculture #TorchCoral #MotherColonyMonday #Euphyllia #Coral

Australian Gold Torch is a very large polyp slow growing coral. They are extremely bright. Pics are some of our mother colonies. Happy Mother Colony Monday!

#TerraReef #Aquaculture #TorchCoral #MotherColonyMonday #Euphyllia #Aquarium #Coral #CoralCollector #Reefer

#Corals' biological clocks can function even without the #algae that nourish them
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-corals-biological-clocks-function-algae.html

Temporal gene expression patterns in the #coral #Euphyllia paradivisa reveal the complexity of biological clocks in the #cnidarian-algal #symbiosis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6467

E. paradivisa exhibits tolerance to #CoralBleaching and survives without algae during prolonged darkness... Its #BiologicalClock functions even at a depth of 65 meters underwater and in almost complete darkness.