Witness the Nighttime Magic of Spawning Coral | Deep Look
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When the moon, sun and ocean temperatures all align, an underwater "snowstorm" occurs. Corals put on a massive spawning spectacle by sending tiny white spheres floating up the water column all at once.
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About 10 days after a full moon, an upside-down underwater blizzard occurs. Tiny spheres float up the water column. But they're not sand particles or algae, they're packets of egg and sperm from coral. This snowlike spectacle is known as coral spawning.
Corals are not plants or rocks, but colonies of hundreds of thousands of tiny animals called polyps. These polyps look like underwater flowers, with a soft body, a mouth and tentacles.
Polyps obtain nutrients from single-celled algae called zooxanthellae, which live in their tissue. The coral provides protection and compounds for photosynthesis. In return, zooxanthellae supply elements to build calcium carbonate skeletons that give them their stony structure.
Corals can’t move to find a partner and mix up their gene pool, so they’ve adapted a unique reproductive strategy that allows their eggs and sperm to fertilize with other colonies. The polyps release their gamete bundles together, at a time determined by environmental factors determined by the lunar cycle, setting sun, and temperature. Scientists believe this ensures high levels of fertilization across the ocean.
--- What are corals known for?
Coral reefs provide habitat for a quarter of marine life, including fish, crustaceans, mollusks and sea turtles. Corals can be found throughout the world’s oceans, in both shallow and deep water.
- How long can a coral live?
Studies have shown that some corals can live up to 5,000 years, making them the longest- living animals on Earth.
--- Do all corals live in warm water?
No. In fact, over half of all known coral species are found in cold, deep and dark waters. These corals feed by waiting for small food particles to swim by, and they lack the symbiotic algae that live in the tissue of warm water corals.
- Do corals have other forms of reproduction?
There are many species of coral, but only two main types of reproduction. Corals reproduce either asexually, by budding, fragmentation and fission, or sexually, through broadcast spawning and brooding.
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Do the free-swimming planula make swimming in the seas itchy after a fulllmoon? These are stinging cnidarians.
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I have also heard that scientists are trying to breed heat tolerant corals that can withstand the heating oceans.
These can make incremental gains, but if we don't drastically slow down warming, it won't be enough. Evolution probably would've given us the solution if that's feasible
my guess is the interspecific relationship is more complicated than people realise and that this process will take too long to save what we have. It's not just the coral that has a problem it is also the algae.
@@smurfyday Unfortunately evolution can't act in advance and traits like that usually don't evolve on such a short timescale in nature, but that doesn't preclude such a trait from existing. Reef building corals have been around since the Late Triassic and have endured plenty of catastrophic climate change and extinction events, but wouldn't necessarily keep a resistance to higher temperatures even if it was present in their ancestors at times when the Earth was generally warmer, since they've now adapted to cooler temperatures.
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9 years ago during a dive at Cairns Australia, I was dismayed at just how bleached the coral patch looked despite being in an area picked by the tour operator. I can't imagine what less favourable areas would look like and things in terms of ocean temperature have just gotten worse since. 😢
:(
This is the perfect answer to "Where do babies come from?" 🌝
I remember a few years ago, I went to an aquarium hobby convention. One of the talks was a scientist basically making a plea on discovering the trigger for coral spawning so as to be replicated. Generally speaking, all corals in the aquarium hobby are clones. They break off a piece to sell and then repeat. And those pieces grow back to the full size with the new owner able to just do the same thing.
I never heard anyone was able to replicate breeding reliably in the lab yet though. Nor had I heard of someone doing it at home.
Helps a ton to get involved with a local aquarist club. When I was into reef keeping, all of us in the club (hundreds at least) had prolific corals that would multiply like crazy. Had a few guys who made and shared tons of aragrocrete plugs for us to make frags and share with each other. I pretty much spent like no money on corals! Haha. We all had more than we knew what to do with. 😄
That is fascinating
So fascinating that these tiny planula adventure around and eventually settle in what will, hopefully given enough time and a healthy environment, become a coral reef. I studied biology for five years and watching these videos illustrate these little marvels of life is such a treat to the inner nerd. Thanks for putting out consistently bumper content!
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They look a little bit like a baby jellyfish, so cute! And sad that they are in danger :/
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There is a very good movie/documentary that explains this in more details “chasing coral”
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A planula! Sounds so cute 🥰. I feel like being cheesy and saying I have a "planula" next time I am working on an idea or dream in it's "embryonic" stages. Lol
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A planula with a plan 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏
well played!
That’s wild how this footage is captured.
Life is so fragile and beautiful...
I know I'm late, but what can I say... was too cloudy here to see the moon.
It all looks so fascinating, Blessed Be.
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The grouch, and spawning of Cnidaria, rarrly fail to amaze me.
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It's fascinating how they have adapted to light levels, and variations of them due to even variations as small as the phases of the moon. I wonder how that interplays with the tides and the effects on ocean currents that might make it easier or harder for the eggs and sperm from different coral colonies to encounter and produce offspring. A wonderful video as always, and shout out to the researchers who discovered this phenomenon!
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So much beauty in the world, I'm scared thinking that one day not too far into the future I'll only get to see it as historical films rather than with my own eyes.
Catfishing coral for science.
Jellyfish and coral are essentially the same things just slightly different and ide guess neotony plays a big roll
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Sometimes the very act of spawning can kill the whole reef! Several years ago , at a place called Coral Bay ( not on the east coast like the Great barrier Reef but on the west coast, Ningaloo reef) abnormal weather conditions forced a lot of coral spawn back into the reefs where it came from. The spawn and gametes died and caused a major pollution event and killed nearly 100 hectares of coral. Thousands of fish died and caused even more toxic conditions. It was horrible!
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Didn't see this in finding Nemo
When I was a baby my family had a documentary about marine life and coral reproduction was my favorite 😢
It’s so freaking insane how we all start exactly the same with the egg and the sperm and we just diverge into different species after. 😅
Thanks for this although have concerns about vagueness with actual issues affecting coral & else. Coral more resilient with temperature than espoused, but not pollutants among other issues & threats that are anthro-origin. Prolly depends upon various environmental factors & speciation, but polyp lifespan usually about two or three years although unsure how use chronological time for this when seasonal & else matter? Coral process had always fascinated me, required conditions & how allude more about place. Even with requirements & probability for spawn & fertilize then zygote must survive for develop over 73 hours into Planula larva that must find place for settle on colony, while particular Zooxanthellae have to be available from else alive amid vast water resource yet exclusively attracted for amazing examples of symbiosis in action & establish an oblgate mutualistic relationship. Many factors for coral to happen, so need specificity that aid awareness & action that address the specific inhibiting issue so colonies may perpetuate & provide the functions they serve.
0:33 notice them twitch together. Interesting!
"Only one of these guys will get in"
*war flashbacks*
I've always found it bizarre that coral is considered an "animal" just like a mammal, bird, reptile, etc.. I fully expect that one day some scientists in a position of influence will finally find enough sense to classify it under its own separate kingdom instead, much like how fungi eventually was after centuries of being classified as a plant.
Just like we need rainforests on land, the Ocean needs the great barrier reef.
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Can you please make a video about the basket star, which is a real animal, it's basically a fancy brittle star
I love to night dive, forget the big pelagic fish and sharks, the coral itself are the rock stars of the ocean.
Will we get a deep look at the giant burrowing cockroach from Australia?
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Wow 🙌
Its crazy how we have to build an ecosytem and not restore one
I helped the Toronga Zoo cryobank with collecting the gametes at a spawning event with AIMS. One vile contained over 9 million sperm that was successfully stored for the next 70yrs
It looks like a reverse snow globe
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its amazing how close the corals are to jellyfishes !
So true! Power to the planulae!
Coral farming is only going to go so far while the temperature keeps increasing.
A reasonable concern.
Nature's undersea fractals.
Wow
is the footage from the sea or the awesome lab the researchers set up from the video?
Hi! Most of the footage is from the California Academy of Sciences Coral Lab!
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So the light of a waning moon is a factor? I generally thought it was a full moon. You learn something new every day. And hopefully we can protect coral reefs from dying off.
Thanks Deep Look! Can’t wait to see more.
Hi! Corals are synched to the lunar cycle. The full moon is a trigger, but they don't spawn during a full moon. They spawn during a waning moon.
And that is how the coral, do
wow
WAWA!
So they're also "holobionts" ? :) lessons from Deep Look
they remind me of the white thingies in the boy and the heron
It's interesting that they're soft and are animals but when they die they become like bone.
" it just sea snow"
the one who dont know 🌝
the one who know 🌚😈
Wow they are animals and when they are young, its a wormy 😮
Yep!
How does it stuck itself to the seafloor?
Hi! The planula secretes calcium carbonate, the chalky substance that forms its skeleton.