Post your acro and monti tables!!!
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LobsterOfJustice
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Deepsea2005
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Nice tables everyone.
Please post more.
Thanks,
Please post more.
Thanks,
Buddy Pine
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Here's one of mine.
Deepsea2005
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Here is my green efflo table
thereefgeek
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Quickly becoming two of my favs in the tank:
Milli & Clathrata-
Milli & Clathrata-
trueblackpercula
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very nice table tops
Cody Ray
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Here is an interesting absract by John Stimpson:
Abstract.Field surveys at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, show that coral density and diversity is much lower beneath Acropora table corals than in adjacent unshaded areas. Additionally, the understory community is predominantly composed of massive and encrusting species, while branching Acropora and Pocillopora predominate in unshaded areas. Results of experiments in which coral fragments were transferred to the shade of table Acropora and to adjacent unshaded areas show that shading slows the growth and leads to higher mortality of branching species, while massive and encrusting species are unaffected. Light measurements made beneath table Acropora show that illumination and irradiance values fall to levels at which most hermatypic corals do not occur. The fastâ€"growing but fragile table Acropora are abundant in a wide variety of atoll habitats and grow rapidly to form a canopy °50 cm above the substrate. However, table Acropora also have high mortality rates, so that there is continuous production of unshaded areas. The growth and death of tables thus create local disturbances, and the resulting patchwork of recently shaded and unshaded areas may enhance coral diversity in areas of high coral cover.
Abstract.Field surveys at Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, show that coral density and diversity is much lower beneath Acropora table corals than in adjacent unshaded areas. Additionally, the understory community is predominantly composed of massive and encrusting species, while branching Acropora and Pocillopora predominate in unshaded areas. Results of experiments in which coral fragments were transferred to the shade of table Acropora and to adjacent unshaded areas show that shading slows the growth and leads to higher mortality of branching species, while massive and encrusting species are unaffected. Light measurements made beneath table Acropora show that illumination and irradiance values fall to levels at which most hermatypic corals do not occur. The fastâ€"growing but fragile table Acropora are abundant in a wide variety of atoll habitats and grow rapidly to form a canopy °50 cm above the substrate. However, table Acropora also have high mortality rates, so that there is continuous production of unshaded areas. The growth and death of tables thus create local disturbances, and the resulting patchwork of recently shaded and unshaded areas may enhance coral diversity in areas of high coral cover.
