Monthly Archives: March 2024

Brain corals at Bath on Barbados east coast appear free of disease 31Mar2024

Posted on March 31, 2024 by David Patriquin

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 →

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Healthy Pillar Coral colony on Vauxhall Reef 23Mar2024

Posted on March 23, 2024 by David Patriquin

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 →

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First diseased P.clivosa  on Reef Flat at Vauxhall observed 10Mar2024

Posted on March 11, 2024 by David Patriquin

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 →

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On Vauxhall Reef (Barbados) Millepora complanata but not M. alcicornis succumb to 2023 coral bleaching

Posted on March 8, 2024 by David Patriquin

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 →

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