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Coral Spawning 2023 (Jan-Jun)

Coral Spawning 2023 (Jan-Jun)

Join our Reefscapers coral biologists on their scientifically fascinating and colourful journey! 🧡
Our teams have experienced a busy few months researching coral spawning here in the Maldives. Take a closer look at our unique macro photographs, and read how we collected coral eggs from our frames, to successfully grow coral polyps in our laboratory aquarium.

Coral Spawning 2022 (Jul-Dec)

Coral Spawning 2022 (Jul-Dec)

Join our Reefscapers coral biologists on their scientifically fascinating and colourful journey! 🧡
Our teams have experienced a busy few months researching coral spawning here in the Maldives. Take a closer look at our unique macro photographs, and read how we collected coral eggs from our frames, to successfully grow coral polyps in our laboratory aquarium.

Coral Spawning 2022 (Jul-Dec)

Coral Spawning 2022 (Jan-Jun)

Join our Reefscapers coral biologists on their scientifically fascinating and colourful journey! 🧡
Our teams have experienced a busy few months researching coral spawning here in the Maldives. Take a closer look at our unique macro photographs, and read how we collected coral eggs from our frames, to successfully grow coral polyps in our laboratory aquarium.

Coral Spawning 2021 November

Coral Spawning 2021 November

Join our Reefscapers coral biologists on their scientifically fascinating and colourful journey! 🧡
Our teams have experienced a busy few months researching coral spawning here in the Maldives. Take a closer look at our unique macro photographs, and read how we collected coral eggs from our frames, to successfully grow coral polyps in our laboratory aquarium.

Coral Spawning 2021 November

Coral Spawning 2021 October

Read all about this year’s mass coral spawning event! Enjoy our detailed report, complete with unique photos and video, coming to you directly from our coral experts at Kuda Huraa and Landaa Giraavaru.
After careful experimentation and several sleepless nights, we have successfully grown tiny polyps of Acropora species in our Fish Lab! 🧡

Coral Spawning in April 2014

Coral Spawning in April 2014

Did you see the coral spawning this month ? Did you wonder what the strange red substance was, floating in the lagoon a few days ago ? Smell anything fishy, recently ?
Learn all about this unique annual event, and see our photos from this month and previous years.

Coral Bleaching 2013 & 2015

Coral Bleaching 2013 & 2015

Read about Coral Bleaching – what causes it, and how it affects our corals. We bring you our first-hand experiences and latest news at the start of the new monsoon season.

Coral Spawning 2013-2020

Coral Spawning 2013-2020

We’re approaching that time of year again here in the Maldives for the annual coral mass spawning event – an incredible natural phenomena that will see millions of corals simultaneously release their sperm and eggs into the water.
UPDATES for April – the spawning event proved to be somewhat different to last year.

Coral & Barnacle Experiments at Kuda Huraa

Coral & Barnacle Experiments at Kuda Huraa

In 2013 we started an interesting experiment to study the barnacles that we find living on the coral.
UPDATED regularly with all the latest progress on our barnacle experiments.