Look for them on your dive but don't touch. If you do not only will the polyp die, but the coral may sting or scratch and not heal for a over a week. Your next night dive is the ideal time to see coral feeding-most corals rest during the day. Corals without the hard, reef building skeleton are soft coral, gorgonians and black corals. The first two spieces can be seen on the lush, shallow terraces swaying gracefully in the current.
Black corals prefer deeper water.
Sponges are primitive animals lacking organs-instead they have specific efficient, pumping thousands of liters of water a day through their filters to trap food. Even the most experienced diver will find the fish life of Curacao entertaining. Instead of exploring the whole reef in one dive, choose one coral-covered spot and just float above the coral heads and watch life go on. You will discover two type of fish when exploring-herbivores and carnivores. Herbivores, such as parrotfish and damselfish, live on the algae they scrap from rocks and corals.