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Home Education Corals Coral Diseases

Yellow-Band Disease

coral with yellow band disease

Yellow-band disease can rapidly spread over a coral destroying the delicate underlying tissues. On the left is a massive coral in the early stages of attack by yellow-band disease. On the right is the same coral several weeks later. Note how rapidly the area of destroyed tissue has expanded.

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