The GBR

[spooda420]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060320/sc_afp/australiaweather_060320193918

Most of our corals dont come from this reef, rather other smaller ones near by, do you think that this will have an impact on coral prices in the near future?

What kind of damage to the eco system do you think this may have caused?

 

[StupidsReef]

Spooda, this is nothing new to the GBR. Not the first time nor will it be the last. Its a part of life in the Ocean. In some way I think this is how new breeds of corals are born as well as what has made the GBR become so large. It will recover ten-folds just as it has in the past. I'm not sure if it will affect our prices as most of the coral we get is from other parts of the world, but I'm sure there will be some hard to get corals due to it. Almost every Reef get's hammered by a storm at some point and is affected in diffrent ways. They bounce right back though most of the time better or bigger than before. Unless that is they are hammered by humans who poisin them or tear them apart while collecting from them. It's kind of like the wild fire's of texas and cail, they burn all the trees and grasses, but everthing grows back stronger than before. This is JMO from watching and reading about the reef's. I'm not basing this on facts, just stuff I've seen and read.