"Schooling Bigeyes" Frame:No Frame Philippines is covered with encrusting

Philippines is covered with encrusting sponges in stunning colors

The purple color on the shell's mantle is the zooxanthellae algae which converts the sunlight into nutrients to feed the clam – in short

recording only the glowing green coral polyps and the red biofluorescence emitted by chlorophyll in the algae covering the reef substrate

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Oceanic Whitetip Shark

"Schooling Bigeyes" Frame:No Frame Philippines is covered with encrustingI never saw such a colorful school of fish before. These schooling Bigeyes (Priacanthus hamrur) swam in 120 ft deep water on a reef in Indonesia. Reinhard Dirscherl is an award winning underwater photographer based in Munich, Germany. Widely published in international diving, nature and travel magazines, his marine wildlife images have won numerous international photo competitions including the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award. Acrylic