With out the reef a lot of needy animals will die of starvation.
Corals cannot flourish with opaque water. With this, they need clear water for them to get sunlight to do well. They also need warm temperature specially the reef-building corals.
dose Worms need air
sunlight
soft corals live deeper water than hard corals because soft corals do not create a hard outer skeleton as the hard corals do.
Because they need a certain balance between water and salt in order to survive.
Corals are not decomposers. They are consumers.
Corals are plants.
Hermatypic corals contain zooxanthellae (a symbiotic algae), whereas ahermatypic corals do not. It is like saying that hermatypic corals are photosynthetic, where ahermatypic corals are non photosynthetic.
No, corals are not edible.
Yes, corals are composed of an exoskeleton
dynamite fishing and muro ami can destroy corals so if there are less corals, less corals will be produced.
Actually, the corals are helpless. There is NO way that the coral can protect itself. It can't move so how would it hit or run?? Common sense.