几个月前，法国波利尼西亚的深礁使这一消息成为全新的消息，因为我们不知道这些更深的礁石的存在。然而，珊瑚在新闻中是一件好事，人们开始对它们表现出更多的兴趣。
Last month during a North Sulawesi Reef Survey we were fortunate enough to survey such a reef and the extent of these underwater world wonder is truly mind blowing. Even if few shapes dominate these habitats, the diversity of species right in the middle of the coral triangle is really amazing.
A very unique habitat
我们发现的潜水站点确实令人着迷。它位于一个遮蔽，浑浊的大海湾，是一个无限的起伏丘陵，以薄叶珊瑚为主，并斑点有真正独特的“樱桃”物种nemenzophyllia turbida在中间。我们在这个特定地点享受的75分钟潜水幸福太短了，迫不及待地想回到那里。
The shallow part:
当我们下降到那个礁Acropora teres,Acropora Abrolhosensis,Acropora Horrida,Acropora exquisita,Acropora halmaherae… We already know, it’s going to be a good dive!
更深的叶子部分：
Once we pass the 15 m (45 ft) mark, the dense Acropora forest is replaced by deep water corals, dominated by foliate species such asPachyseris speciosa据我们所知。
Pachyseris speciosais the dominant species, growing depending on the depth in slightly different rose size and shape. Getting wider, flatter and spaced out as we go down.
ButPachyseris speciosa不是唯一的叶面物种。其他物种的全谱会产生相互竞争的巨大层流菌落。mycedium robokakiis one of them.
其他种类的物种，包括Oxypora lacera,eChinopora lamellosa和Echinopora Pacificus但是与法国波利尼西亚深礁不同，Porites rus无处可去，因为它无法与更适合这种环境的许多其他物种竞争。但是一些较小的层状菌落Montiporaare present.
Still some interesting Acropora:
As usual, Acropora are always the center of our attention, especially in the deeper area. We were surprised to be gratified with some large fields ofAcropora carduus,Acropora echinata， 和Acropora navini。它们非常离散，位于这朵大玫瑰旁边，花了时间和近距离观察，注意到它不是瓦砾田，而是完全健康的Acropora床。它们通常位于厚厚的分支Acropora森林和层状珊瑚田之间的过渡区。
Speckled Coral Cherries:
在层状珊瑚中，我们受到了一些真正令人惊叹和稀有的珊瑚的欢迎，例如nemenzophyllia turbida在更深的部分，30 m（90英尺）。
This quite rare and really underrated corals is a beautiful sight under water. The flattened bubble are really a unique feature to this species. The colonies were quite big, easily over 2 m wide. We didn’t have time to really spend some time and try to observe the associated fauna, we have another reason to get back there!
我们发现的另一个非常有趣的发现是一个巨大的殖民地Euphyllia glabrescens。Not a very common coral, but really hard to find in descent size. It looks like in shallow water the branching structure becomes weak, and they never reach large size. While in deeper water, even if the colony is not really homogenous, it’s still of an impressive size. With different polyps belonging to the same colony sticking out of the substrate.
相对是非常接近so present at 30m (90ft):Fimbriaphyllia ancora。
Large colonies of another common LPS coral was also present: Goniopora sp
Even some large fields of soft corals: Sarcophyton sp, were present, few Sinularia… the full set of the coral family was striving in this reef.
Plenty of food for a striving reef!
从这个白日梦开始醒来后，我们想到的唯一问题是怎么可能？唯一的答案是食物！北苏拉威西（North Sulawesi）躺在印尼“流过”的入口处，太平洋在那里空入印度洋，穿过印度尼西亚群岛，这个海湾就在其入口处。在海湾内的礁石是后背涡流的地方，食物被直接在这些饥饿的珊瑚嘴里的礁石上掉落在礁石上！
