The gaudiest in all of Coral City comes in for a close up: the supermale clown wrasse 🤡🐟 #clownwrasse #wrasse #gaudy #hypercolor #coralcitycamera
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The CCC is an underwater camera streaming live from an urban coral reef in Miami, FL. A public art & scientific research project by Coral Morphologic (https://bsky.app/profile/coralmorphologic.bsky.social) ◦ coralcitycamera.com
The gaudiest in all of Coral City comes in for a close up: the supermale clown wrasse 🤡🐟 #clownwrasse #wrasse #gaudy #hypercolor #coralcitycamera
Murky days make for good fishing if you’re a predator like this double crested cormorant #doublecrestedcormorant #cormorant #murky #seabirdsofcoralcity #coralcitycamera
They are unlikely to cause much disruption to our native ecosystem as they spend most of their time in open water picking plankton and small bits of food out of the water column alongside sergeant majors.
Meet the Regal Damoiselle, the newest saltwater fish species to call Miami home. Native to the Indian Ocean, it is believed to have followed their nests on oil rigs that were towed across the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico where they’ve become established 🌎✌️👽🐟🌍 #regaldamoiselle #coralcitycamera
305 Day - our slogan is ‘Civic Pride Through Biodiversity’ and today we celebrate Miami, an incomparable city harboring manatees and other marine megafauna in its midst. Don’t take it for granted! Today we were graced by this absolute unit of a manatee!! 🤩〰️🐮〰️🌇 #305day #coralcitycamera
Hello! Hello!! Anybody home?? #stoplightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera
Cutiepie floating by!! 👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #coralcitycamera
Manatee, uh, pruning the coral garden, while, uh, fertilizing it 🫣〰️💩🐮✂️🪸〰️🥲 #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera
Coral City after dark stays beefin with these two French grunts mouthing off 😮😮 #frenchgrunts #grunt #mouthfight #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera
Houndfish gang dropped down from their usual haunt near the surface where they are known to reign terror down from above on the little fishies below #houndfish #needlefish #coralcitycamera
Round two of the striped parrotfish kiss off #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #coralcitycamera #kissoff
Spend 6 minutes with a Great Barracuda @ the CCC
The water was near immaculate at high tides this week. Who’s been tuning in? Let’s stay blue in 2026 #barracuda #ooobarracuda #teeth #chomp #coralcitycamera
Spotfin butterflyfish born looksmaxxed 🦋🐟💁♂️ #spotfinbutterflyfish #butterflyfish #coralcitycamera
Sharp eyes noticed this dark mantis shrimp creeping along the LBC (lower brain coral) this morning 👀🐛🧠🪸 #mantisshrimp #darkmantis #braincoral #coralcitycamera #stomatopod
WEIRD MIAMI moments on the water 🌊
Colin Foord of Coral Morphologic leads a boat tour through Miami’s luminous, vulnerable, marine landscapes 🪸🌇🪸
100k followers! Thank You, Coral Heads!
Miami dolphins ftw! Whole pod squad, baby and all, came thru last night!! 🙌🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🌃 #bottlenosedolphin #dolphinsofcoralcity #dolphin #podsquad #coralcitycamera
CamDam allows the Spanish Hogfish to give it a once over, but no cleaning services are rendered #spanishhogfish #damselfish #camdam #coralcitycamera #cleaningstation
Here come the manatee!! 🥹〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #seapotato
Nothing freaks out the fish of Coral City more than the birds! Death from above! Look out grunts! Beware!! 🐦⬛😱🐟🐟🐟🐟 #cormorant #doublecrestedcormorant #tomtate #coralcity #dfa
They really said ‘one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish’ #stoplightparrotfish #blueparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #coralcitycamera
Lizardfish decided today was a day time for a dirt nap 🦎🐟🫨😑🏝️ #lizardfish #sanddiver #dirtnap #coralcitycamera
The sassy Spanish hogfish swims at sunset 🔮🇪🇸🐷🐟🪸🌇 #spanishhogfish #sassy #sunset #coralcitycamera
My what a beautifully long tail you have!! #spottedeagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #eagleray #remora
A bioluminescent dinoflagelate (a single-celled organism) got accidentally smeared by the Camera’s midnight wiper to extraordinary effect 💫 (Don’t worry, it survived, it continued glowing in place for several minutes under the wiper itself) #bioluminescence #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera
💗 Happy Valentine’s Day 💗
Love is in the water in Coral City! This pair of hamlets rose up in a heart-shaped embrace to fertilize the next generation of baby hamlets 🥹💙🐟🐟 #barredhamlet #lovers #love #embrace #coralcitycamera
A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive. Some survived. Thousands of others did not.