在热带海洋，珊瑚礁，五颜六色的鱼类和许多特有物种的世界中，红海一直被视为地球上最独特的地方之一。这条半封闭的海已经养育了一种“超级礁石”，其中水是温暖的，但盐水也稍微少一些，使其与我们的珊瑚需要繁殖和生长的所有矿物质和元素略微丰富。
从来没有证明这种增强的化学反应是世界范围内发生的下一个珊瑚增长的原因，但肯定并没有受到伤害，因为大量的珊瑚生长和产生的豪华珊瑚礁证明了这一点。在世界上大多数地方layers石质珊瑚彼此之间的生长。
The coral reefs of the Red Sea are lush withAcropora,Pocillopora,Poritesand it’s one of the more unique regions of the world for having beautiful exuberant colonies ofMilleporafire corals. You’ve likely come across many photographs of the Red Sea, often being used to promote diving all over the world but there’s no confusing the crystal clear water, assemblages of this specific group of corals and many unmistakable reef fish for anywhere else in the world.
Like virtually all coral reefs around the world those of the Red Sea are facing increasing pressures from coastal development and challenges from a rapidly changing environment – and it doesn’t help that the Red Sea is one of the busiest shipping channels due to the connection provided by the Suez Canal. Despite all of the cards being stacked against the Red Sea it seems corals in this region are still thriving with most areas and dive sites showing very little signs or evidence of environmental degradation.
最近由珊瑚礁生态学家约瑟夫·帕维克（Joseph Pawlik）分享的美丽的高清视频清楚地表明了红海中珊瑚礁的“悖论”，这些珊瑚礁蓬勃发展，反对赔率和难以形容的石质珊瑚珊瑚生长，这在这个非常独特的环境中可以看到。If you ever wanted a measure of how large and amazing stony corals can become you’ll definitely want to take a gander at this impressive documentation of stony corals in the peak of health and it should set the bar for what many of us aspire to recreate in our home aquariums.
