Reef scene - corals and unicornfishes

Raja Empat, Papua, Indonesia

Fuji F2 12-24 mm @ 12, 1/125 @ f/6.7

This very large table coral seemed quite unusual. First, their is a second tier table starting to grow out of the center, threatening to overshadow (and kill) its base.

Equally interesting is the interaction between the table coral and the branching coral (both appear to be Acropora sp.) on the far right side. The table coral has overgrown (and killed) much of the branching coral beneath it, but an accomodation of sorts has been reached on the far edge, in what appears to have been a race between the table coral growing out and the branching coral reaching upwards.