Crown of Thorns expeditions
The Crown of Thorns (COT) is a coral eating starfish which can destroy vast areas of hard coral reefs within just a couple of month. Worldwide coral reefs are facing the danger of COT outbreaks. As famous places as the Great Barrier Reef of Australia or the coastline of Sharm-el-Sheikh in the Red Sea have not yet recovered from outbreaks in the late 1990s. It is believed that the main reasons for the regular explosions in population is the nutrition rich water due to pollution and also the collection of their main predators, the Triton snail with its beautiful shell, which you find nowadays almost only in souvenirshops.
A Crown of Thorns starfish feeding on hard coral
Once the COT moves on it leaves only a white skeleton behind
The Triton Snail is the main predator of the COT
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COT Collection - page 2

 

 

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