Coral bottom in the fog Painting

The Red Sea is able to impress with the diversity of its forms. Round and in the form of columns, flat and branched, in the form of huge flat tables and even in the form of Christmas trees, as well as many, many others. At the same time, they are different in their structure. Representatives of the same species may have a harder or softer structure. In addition, they differ in colors - here u are yellow, u pink, u green, u purple, u brown, u blue shades, in general any, even black ones exist. All the variety of colors create three pigments: blue, red, yellow. The first two produce polyps themselves, and yellow - the microalgae zooxanthella living in their soft tissues, only organisms that have not died out have color. After death from polyps, only a white calcium skeleton remains, dense as a stone, from which soft integumentary tissues peel off.