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Those fish are really cool! I remember back in the 00s (when our reefs were still doing okay!) when we went to Maui and saw the insanely colorful reefs with fish just like the Mahi Mahi swarming all over it. Massive sea turtles and other creatures, too. It looked almost fake, it was so colorful. I hope we continue to preserve places like that.
The only place I've seen colors like that are in the (indie) fish stores where they have insanely good saltwater tanks. I hope that 1) we preserve them in nature. 2) we keep samples of as many species of corals, microfauna, and fish from areas like Florida, which are getting too hot to support reefs. To reseed in the centuries ahead when we have stabilized the climate.