Monthly Archives: March 2024
Brain corals at Bath on Barbados east coast appear free of disease 31Mar2024
With the collaboration of Dr. Elon Cadogan of CORALL Barbados, on Mar 28, 2024, I made a brief visit to Bath around the Low Tide when wave action is minimal and underwater visibility highest. One objective I had was to … Continue reading
Healthy Pillar Coral colony on Vauxhall Reef 23Mar2024
It’s a rare day when I spend time at Vauxhall Reef and don’t find “something new” or get an especially good photo of a species I have been chasing for a while. Today’s (Mar 22, 2024) find was an entirely … Continue reading
First diseased P.clivosa on Reef Flat at Vauxhall observed 10Mar2024
Large mounds of Pseudodiploria clivosa are common on the Reef Flat and Diploria-Palytoa zones at Vauxhall and can assume some quite striking, even majestic, forms. I had not seen diseased Pseudodiploria clivosa amongst these big specimens at Vauxhall until I … Continue reading
On Vauxhall Reef (Barbados) Millepora complanata but not M. alcicornis succumb to 2023 coral bleaching
Tom Goreau cited the Acropora and Millepora species as tho reef-building species most affected by extreme warming in the fall of 2023. Both the “true” coral A prolifera and the coral-like hydrozoan M. complanata occur, with the colonial zoanthid Palythoa caribeana, in the “A. … Continue reading