This school of bumphead parrotfish were spotted by our monitoring team on Mantis Reef on the far north of the Great Barrier Reef. Bumphead parrotfish are the world’s largest species of parrotfish, and graze on both living coral and algal covered surfaces on the reef. While grazing, they scrape off some of the limestone structure of the reef, crunching it down and eventually excreting it as sand. You can see this ‘deposit’ as a sandy cloud. Each fish can eat over five tons of reef material each y
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Nom nom nom! 〰️ It's lunchtime for this Bumphead parrotfish. Parrotfish provide a top quality Reef cleaning service, by grazing on the algae that grows on top of coral and giving the reef a chance to grow. 〰️ You can learn more Reef facts here: http://bit.ly/3dM729d #LoveTheReef 〰️ 📷 https://www.instagram.com/grumpyturtlecreative/ 〰️ 📌 Ribbon Reefs 〰️ | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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