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Do coral reefs have soil

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Coral Reefs do not have soil at all. Coral grows on the skeletons, or dead coral, and keep growing. So, they live on their own burial ground! They eat by waiting until nightfall, and extend their arm like tubes and feed on algae or plankton or other small organisms. Cool huh!

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