Friday, 18 October 2019

Sea Cucumber Help to Protect the Coral Reefs

Image courtesy of Leonard Low, CC BY 2.0.



Joel Kontinen

A sea cucumber looks a bit like a cucumber.it is an invertebrate, living on the seafloor. there are 1,250 of them. they measure some 1.9 centimetres or three-quarters of an inch to 1.8 metres or 6 feet long.

They have “ five rows of tiny feet that run lengthwise down their bodies, from mouth to anus.” and can live on “pieces of algae and marine creatures”.

They can digest sand and , “sea cucumbers excrete byproducts that benefit ocean ecosystems, particularly coral reefs,” and as their products a relatively high (or basic) pH, which means the water surrounding sea cucumber habitats is somewhat protected from ocean acidification. Sea cucumbers also excrete calcium carbonate, which is a primary ingredient in coral formation, and ammonia, which acts as a fertilizer and promotes coral growth
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So, we see that God has created the animals to care for nature.

Source:

Ross, Rachel. 2019. What Is a Sea Cucumber? Live Science. (16 October).