Newly Discovered Galapagos Reef

[hoffmeyerz]

I found this interesting, 400M deep reef system that has coral thousands of years old. Hope we can keep our grubby human hands off of it!!!

New coral reef discovered in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands

A scientific expedition has discovered a previously unknown coral reef with abundant marine life off Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, the country's environment ministry said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[lopez052308]

Absolutely beautiful.

 

[hoffmeyerz]

There's an urchin in one of the images....I'm not very educated on those but I wouldn't call that a pencil urchin.....more like dagger, those spines are HUGE

 

[lopez052308]

Yea definitely don’t want to accidentally hit that guy.

 

[nuxx]

How much for a frag?