How Do You Start a Fringing Reef?

The process of building a fringing reef starts with animals that harness the sunlight. They start forming this fringing reef and then they do their thing in terms of secreting exo skeleton, limestoneb,. Then they start branching around. And eventually the thing drops or moves or whatever, in you're left with the reef as it continues to grow. I've seen that in oman, actuallyw where the corals start to coalesce into a rudimentary reefand then the process is off.

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