{"id":322203,"date":"2025-11-27T22:12:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/aquarium\/coral-city-camera-world-record-underwater-coral-growth-timelapse-926-days\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:12:23","slug":"coral-city-camera-world-record-underwater-coral-growth-timelapse-926-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/som2nynetwork.com\/?p=322203","title":{"rendered":"Coral City Camera \u2013 World Record Underwater Coral Growth Timelapse *926 Days*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We are proud to unveil the world\u2019s longest running underwater timelapse, starting May 1st 2023 and running 926 days through November 12, 2025. This period covers summer 2023\u2019s unprecedented coral bleaching event, and indeed multiple corals can be seen bleaching, but then recovering and growing through 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Bleaching occurs when the metabolism of the golden-brown symbiotic algae that live in the coral tissue known as zooxanthellae goes into thermal overdrive. The algae\u2019s production of photosynthetically-produced oxygen exceeds the limit the coral can safely handle inside its tissues, resulting in expulsion of the zooxanthellae (and its brown color) from its host. Because zooxanthellae normally provide a coral with photosynthetically-produced sugars, it begins to starve without these symbionts. Fast-growing corals like the endangered staghorn (<em>Acropora cervicornis<\/em>) and elkhorn (<em>Acropora palmata<\/em>) lack the energy stores that fleshier corals like brain corals have, and die from bleaching stress much more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Of greatest interest to us is the success and proliferation of the urban strain of staghorn coral (<em>Acropora cervicornis<\/em>\u00a0aka ACER \u2018ventura\u2019) that not only did not bleach, but has grown swiftly. We look forward to continuing our scientific investigation into the mechanisms of their resilience, and hope to amplify this strain for the purpose of restoring Miami\u2019s nearshore reefs.<\/p>\n<p>Our ability to timelapse the growth of PortMiami\u2019s urban corals highlights the scientific value of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coralcitycamera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coral City Camera<\/a>\u00a0and its ability to document what was previously undocumented. 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