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 * __ A Day in the Rainforest of the Ocean __**

Once upon a Coral Reef, there was a classroom of fish. All the students were very excited to go on a field trip to learn about symbiotic relationships! They left the classroom and Ms. Triggerfish led them to explore. At first they just saw lots and lots of tiny fish. Then all of the sudden they saw Rex, the baby White Tip Reef Shark.

“Hello Ms. Triggerfish, wow your class looks yummy today,” exclaimed Rex.



“Ha-ha, class, Rex would love to have me for lunch. He is a big predator and I’m a little prey,” explained Ms. Triggerfish.

“Bye Ms. Triggerfish, I will be looking for you when I get hungry,” said Rex.

They went on and passed a coral that was turned a different color.

“Stop, I know what is wrong with this coral. Its called Black Band Disease,” said Bobby happily.

“Yes you are right, Black Band Disease is benefiting from the coral and the coral is being harmed. Eventually the diease will end up killing the coral,” Ms. Triggerfish explained to the class.

Ms. Triggerfish then pointed to a sea anemone with a clown fish in it.

“ Class, the clownfish cleans the sea anemone and lures the predator which becomes prey for the sea anemone. The sea anemone protects the clownfish from predators. In the end the clownfish and the sea anemone benefit each other,” Ms. Triggerfish swam happily in a circle.



All of the sudden the class heard a squeal and it turned out that it was one of the students named Jenna.

“Jenna what are you doing?” asked Ms. Triggerfish swimming over to her.

“Well, I forgot to eat my breakfast and I’m really hungry but I can’t get this Frilled Dog Winkle out because it’s stuck in the Pore Coral,” exclaimed Jenna.

“The reason you can’t get it out is because the Pore Coral is actually protecting the Frilled Dog Winkle but the Pore Coral doesn’t care!” exclaimed Ms. Triggerfish

“Oh, now I know why coral reefs are called the rainforest of the ocean because of all the different types of organisms and how they interact with each other.” Jenna said.



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