Bleaching Affects Aquarium Corals, Too (IMAGE)

ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies

Bleaching Affects Aquarium Corals, Too

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The Australian saucer coral (Homophyllia australis), lives just off the coast of Mackay. With the worldwide demand for Australian aquarium corals increasing, a single aquarium specimen of Homophyllia australis fetched more than $8,000 AUD in Japan in 2017. However, bleaching events kill this particular species.

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Ciemon Caballes.

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