* Smargon Courtyard, also overlooking coastal bluffs, features a 13, 000-gallon shark reef tank and Wonders of Water play stations.

Its one-million-litre ocean tank houses giant green sea turtles, blacktip reef sharks and tropical reef fish, with a fully transparent underwater tunnel.

* Pacific Coral Reef is a man made coral reef in a tank that showcases fish that live in and around the reefs.

* Pulling water from one area of a reef aquarium and pumping it immediately elsewhere in the tank to create higher flow and minimize dead spots

* Metal halide aquarium lighting and reef tank community site

The Aquarium Reptile Complex is a building with a tank for Pacific coral reef species, as well as exhibits for Galapagos tortoises, false gharials, and other reptiles.

A reef aquarium or reef tank is a marine aquarium that prominently displays live corals and other marine invertebrates as well as fish that play a role in maintaining the tropical coral reef environment.

A " reef ready " or simply " drilled " tank is often used.

Although they were once widely used, many reef tank aquarists have abandoned T12 and T8 fluorescent lamps due to their poor intensity, and mercury vapor due to its production of a limited light spectrum.

Species considered reef safe and able to coexist in larger tanks may not do well in a nano tank due to their close physical proximity.

Many larger predatory fish, for instance eels and pufferfish, will adapt very well to a reef tank and will be problem-free as long as they have sizable tankmates and no crustaceans.

LED lighting can be considered one of the most energy efficient and low impact options to lighting a reef tank as well, with a projected life expectancy of seven years.

* Rainbow Reef is a 1700-gallon coral reef tank.

The lagoon has small fish and eels, while the 250, 000-gallon ( 950, 000-l ) Outer Reef tank has nurse sharks, blacktip reef sharks, and four other shark species.

Live rock prior to installation into a reef tank

Located in the central open atrium of the main building, the principal feature of the Aquarium is the Giant Ocean Tank, a cylindrical tank simulating a Caribbean coral reef.

Open at the top, the concrete tank is surrounded by a walkway that spirals down, allowing visitors access to 52 windows that offer views of the reef from every angle and level.

The 200, 000 gallon tank will receive enlarged viewing windows, a new reef inside it, enhanced lighting, and a reflective domed ceiling overhead.

As a colorful component of live rock sold in the marine aquarium trade, and an important part of reef health, coralline algae are desired in home aquariums for their aesthetic qualities, and ostensible benefit to the tank ecosystem.

This zone houses life-size models of whales and dolphins found around Britain and the large Eddystone tank displays creatures found on the Eddystone reef, 12 miles offshore from Plymouth.

Discovery Cove contains a coral reef, where guests can use their park-provided snorkeling equipment to observe and interact with thousands of tropical fish, Sting Rays up to 4 feet across and an underwater shark and tigerfish tank located behind protective glass.

* Slab reefing, which involves lowering the sail by about one-quarter to one-third of its full length and tightening the lower part of the sail using an outhaul or a pre-loaded reef line through a cringle at the new clew, and hook through a cringle at the new tack.

They differ from freshwater crayfish in lacking the joint between the last two segments of the thorax, and they differ from the reef lobsters of the family Enoplometopidae in having full claws on the first three pairs of legs, rather than just one.

The full reef covers about 100 hectares and varies in depth between sixty and ninety centimeters, forming a natural break.

Once placed in the family Triakidae, the whitetip reef shark is now recognized by most authors as belonging to the family Carcharhinidae on the basis of morphological characters such as a full nictitating membrane, well-developed precaudal pit, strong lower caudal fin lobe, and scroll-like intestinal valves.

It is highly recommended that you hike to the top of the island, where you can clearly see the coast line ( on a clear day ) as well as getting the full perspective of the entire island and surrounding reef.

On February 1, 2008, a young female white tip reef shark was attacked by a larger sandtiger shark named Jesse, in full view of the public.

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a depressed central area devoid of a lagoon with its highest point being above sea level.

A coral reef lies close to shore ; the island's capital of Mutsamudu is also its main port.

A well-developed coral reef that encircles much of the island ensures protection for ships and a habitat for fish.

A collection of crocheted hyperbolic planes, in imitation of a coral reef.

A hyperbolic model of a coral reef has also been constructed for environmental purposes

The coral reef surrounding the seaward side of the atoll is generally broad, flat, and shallow at about below mean sea level in most locations and varying from 300 to 650 feet ( 100 to 200 m ) in width.

However, a mulatto who escaped the destruction of Syn's previous ship stowed away in Clegg's ship and accused him before the crew ; Clegg quelled the potential mutiny by having the mulatto's tongue cut out, marooning him on a coral reef and violently killing Yellow Pete, the ship's Chinese cook, who represented the crew in their wish to rescue the mulatto.

It is surrounded by coral beaches and a fringing reef and encloses a mangrove lagoon of around 9 km².

Biodiversity of a coral reef.

Thus the distribution of Symbiodinium on coral reefs and its role in coral bleaching presents one of the most complex and interesting current problems in reef ecology.

* 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.

They form part of a coral reef and lagoon.

In 2005 the Rainbow Warrior II ran aground on and damaged the Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines while inspecting the reef for coral bleaching.

Foreign tourists are attracted to Honduras by the Mayan ruins in Copán and coral reef skindiving off the Islas de la Bahía ( Bay Islands ).

The terrain is low-lying and sandy: a coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef with a slightly raised central area.

An atoll is an island formed from a coral reef that has grown on an eroded and submerged volcanic island.

Behind the beaches is a flat raised plain of uplifted coral reef.

The low-lying coral island has long been noted as hard to sight from small ships and is surrounded by a narrow fringing reef.

The atoll, which is located on the coral reef platform, comprises four islands.

Map of the islands of Johnston Atoll, showing rim of coral reef.

The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.

In December 2000, most of Palmyra Atoll was bought by The Nature Conservancy for coral reef conservation and research.

* Natural resources: fishery, coral reef, possible oil and gas nearby

Of these 700 species, more than 80 % are coral reef associated, and directly or indirectly depend on the coral reef for their survival.