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two brittle stars in a tank

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Brittle Star Splits

January 2020

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dead coral from disease

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Sickness in the Sea: A Coral Plague Hits Florida

August 2019

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Relatively slow moving, juvenile plane-head filefish Monacanthus hispidus (Monacanthidae) travel along with the algae. They pick off and eat small animals as they move around in the rotating sargassum ball. Adult filefish only grow to be about 11

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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

May 2012

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