Monday 16th April 2011, one of the most exciting dives of my life. I knew most of the branching Acropora corals had mature eggs that I expected would be released some time after sunset, around the full moon period. I did not know exactly which night that would be, so I started night diving two days before the full moon. And that is when most of them spawned (I counted 43 colonies from 10 Acropora species). I was surrounded by pink bundles of egg and sperm that were slowly floating up to the surface. It looked like it was snowing, but upside down, and pink. reference: Bouwmeester J, Khalil MT, De La Torre P, Berumen ML (2011) Synchronous spawning of Acropora in the Red Sea. Coral Reefs 30:1011-1011 doi.org/10.1007/s00338-011-0796-5
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