We've been out collecting debris, Crown of Thorns starfish & Drupella Snails. The Crown of Thorns starfish & Drupella Snails are corallivores, basically eat the live coral polyps within the coral and kill it ..so on occasions when numbers are high, we go out and collect them, trying to do our bit for the coral.
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| Collecting Crown of Thorns Starfish |
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| Drupella Snail collection |
We've added some toilets to our artificial reef Junkyard. These were donated by the Crystal restaurant. They've been stripped of all plastic/rubber components and the hard ceramic shell will provide and excellent substrate for coral to settle on once it's been given a rub down and scored as they're very shiny & smooth at the moment.
Another favourite job of the DMC's is to measure our Giant Clams in our nursery. We've had the clams since they were 10-14 cm in length and now they're all around the 22 cm mark, so growing very well. Out of the 25 we were given, we've only 1 fatality.
Simon's been busy with the bar, diving most days and taking some awesome macro shots with his camera. He's also been offered a role to do 'Social Media' for Crystal ..that's all the FB, Twitter & Instagram ads, blogs etc (I think ) He's doing a trial run till the end of the month, so we'll see how that pans out :-D
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