Corals summon gardening gobies to clean up toxic seaweed | Not Exactly Rocket ScienceFor corals, gardening?s a matter of life and death. Corals compete with algal seaweeds for space, and many types of seaweed release chemicals that are toxic to corals , act as carriers for coral diseases and boost the growth of dangerous microbes . These dangers require close contact?the seaweed poisons won?t diffuse through the water, so they need to be applied to the corals directly. And that ...
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