Corals habitat and design. Corals Soft corals Group of the spices called (Alcyonacea) soft bodies made up of a large number of polyps connected by fleshy.

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Corals habitat and design

Corals Soft corals Group of the spices called (Alcyonacea) soft bodies made up of a large number of polyps connected by fleshy tissue lack the limestone skeleton found on hard corals Hard corals Group of spices called (Alcyonacea) Made up of polyps connected by a limestone skeleton. The lime stone skeleton is built on the coral that has died before it. Dose not have a soft bodied. Vary unstable and easy to destroy.

Zoos coral exhibit This exhibit is one from the Henry doorly zoos Scotts aquarium.

Natural/unnatural habitat of coral A biotic factor that aid coral would be the small animals (zooplankton) that lives microscopically in the water over 85% of there diet comes from zooplankton. The rest from floating organisms captured at nigh by the coral A Abiotic factor would be the giant oil spills that damage not only coral but the fish that live in side the coral reefs. Oil spills kill coral by blocking there polyps and preventing them from feeding. Oil also kills the micoganisims that help the coral survive and last it blocks the sunlight which without the sun the coral will wither and die.

Corals niche Corals niche is that they serve as a natural barrier for coastlines. They stop waves from eroding shorelines and from an excess of built up sand. They serve as a habitat for rare and endangered species of fish that could not live anywhere else in the ocean.

Interactions that shape coral Fish spices that live inside the coral giving them a place to stay hidden from the larger fish. Oil spills cause mass areas of ocean to be uninhabitable by coral due to the content of the water and the oil still covering the ground. Zooplankton shapes the coral decide what color it will be. The sun can help the coral thrive, or it can be the reason that it bleaches and dies. Hurricanes and typhoons can cause the coral to brake or destroyed (especially hard coral) Pouching of corals to sell to pet shops take coral way from reefs and don’t give them the chance they need to be abundant.

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