Bleaching acros - Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

06-15-2005, 01:06 AM

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In bleaching, the coral loses it zoanthelle, in RTN, the tissue actually comes off of the skeleton. Bleaching can be fatal but isn't always, but RTN is fatal 100% of the time (assuming the whole colony RTN's). Also, it seems that RTN can spread to other corals as well.

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