Here is an article about how the algae on the coral reefs is winning the fight. The Caribbean corals are doing much worse than the corals in the Indo-pacific and in the article it says that it might be because there are less fish that eat coral. Here is the article:
Caribbean reefs less resilient News in Science (ABC Science)
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I agree with this because when people try to maintain coral in an aquarium algae is one of the biggest problems and almost all of the fish that are good at eating algae are from the Indo-pacific. The Foxface rabbitfish is a machine at eating algae and the Kole Tang has special teeth for scraping algae while the yellow and sailfin tangs are excellent algae eaters as well. The Naso tang is the only fish that will eat Lobophora algae. The blue tang from the Caribbean/Atlantic is not too useful for this however.
Here is a video about what fish help to keep coral growing in an aquarium all of which live in the Indo-pacific region.
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The Indo-pacific is very lucky to have so many different species...
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Caribbean reefs less resilient News in Science (ABC Science)
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I agree with this because when people try to maintain coral in an aquarium algae is one of the biggest problems and almost all of the fish that are good at eating algae are from the Indo-pacific. The Foxface rabbitfish is a machine at eating algae and the Kole Tang has special teeth for scraping algae while the yellow and sailfin tangs are excellent algae eaters as well. The Naso tang is the only fish that will eat Lobophora algae. The blue tang from the Caribbean/Atlantic is not too useful for this however.
Here is a video about what fish help to keep coral growing in an aquarium all of which live in the Indo-pacific region.
[/FONT]Reef Fish Selection - YouTube
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The Indo-pacific is very lucky to have so many different species...
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