After diving, how to post elegantly on WeChat Moments

When I wake up in the morning, I check my Moments and have already traveled around nine countries. Now I have long been out of posting selfies while traveling. How to stand out in the Moments Photography Contest? How to get 999 likes on a photo? How to elegantly post a high profile WeChat Moments? These are all questions worth thinking about. First of all, a photo of high beauty is essential, and secondly, a high-level accompanying text is the icing on the cake.

For example, go diving. Nowadays, diving is becoming more and more popular. Every now and then, you will see someone showing off their OW and AOW diving certificates in their circle of friends. Just showing off your diving certificate is too strong and is not recommended. I saw the bizarre corals and fish and took some beautiful photos. If I could only say wow this is beautiful and wow that is cool. So this post on Moments is not interesting, and the quality is slightly low.

The guy next door, Xiao Wang, is a diving enthusiast. From time to time, he posts diving photos in his circle of friends. He shows various corals and fishes with stunning colors, but they are just accompanied by text, which is really not interesting.

A few days ago, he posted a diving photo with the text: "Wow, this red seaweed is so beautiful."

A bunch of unsuspecting melon-eaters clicked below Like it, until an expert commented: "This is a soft coral, not a plant." Have you ever felt the contempt from top students?

When posting to Moments, the correct cool posture should be like this.

Text: "I went diving today and encountered a giant gorgonian. This gorgonian is also commonly known as a sea fan. It is estimated that hundreds of millions of coral polyp bones must have accumulated to grow this big." "Then pull the location in Tahiti.

I give this pretense 9 points. First of all, this positioning of Tahiti is hundreds of miles away from islands such as Sanya, Pattaya, and Bali. Secondly, it is a small science popularization without leaving any trace, which seems You are not a melon-eating diver who has casual experience, but a romantic and talented person who has a little knowledge, can read a book quietly, and go to the sea when moving.

Well, first of all, you still have to brush up on coral knowledge. As a diving enthusiast, it would be a better pleasure to identify various marine fish and corals while diving. There are so many types of corals on the seabed that it is difficult to cover them all. The following is a simplified list of some common coral types used during diving.

Misunderstandings about corals

Because corals are often used to be processed into handicrafts and jewelry, many people mistakenly think that corals are plants or rocks. In fact, corals are made of small marine invertebrates. Made of (the carcasses of) animals, these tiny invertebrates are called polyps. Coral polyps feed on plankton. When night falls, coral polyps will extend some tiny tentacles from their calcareous shells to grab plankton in the seawater and bring them to their mouths. After coral polyps digest food, they secrete lime (the main component is calcium carbonate) to form skeletons and shells. When coral polyps die, their shells accumulate, and new coral polyps continue to reproduce and grow on the skeletal remains of these ancestors. After long-term accumulation, they form various coral reefs on the seabed.

There are two main types of corals - hard corals and soft corals. Many people mistake soft corals for undersea plants, and some mistake sea anemones for soft corals. So, what is the difference between hard corals and soft corals?

Hard coral

Common coral crafts and coral jewelry on the market are made of hard coral. Red coral, in particular, is one of the three major organic gemstones along with pearls and amber.

Hard corals are composed of hard lime (calcium carbonate). They look like rocks and are mostly gray or yellow. They are mainly formed from the calcium carbonate shell and endoskeleton of coral polyps. After the coral polyps die, their skeletons and shells remain in place. As the polyps continue to die and reproduce, the shells of the polyps gradually accumulate, and the coral slowly grows. Because coral polyps are so tiny, hard corals grow very slowly.

Several common hard corals include rough staghorn coral, pillar coral, table staghorn coral, brain coral, star coral, pale coral, elkhorn coral, orange cup coral, etc.

Rough Staghorn Coral

This kind of coral looks very much like antlers. It is a branched coral. Its cylindrical branches vary in length, some are only a few centimeters. Some are up to 2 meters long. Staghorn corals are the fastest growing of all known western Atlantic corals, with their branches increasing 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) per year. They are one of the three most important Caribbean corals and contribute significantly to the growth of coral reefs and the habitat of fish.

Pillar coral

As the name suggests, pillar coral looks like a pillar without branches. It can grow up to 2.5 meters high. It is a relatively easy-to-identify coral on the seabed. They are mainly found on flat or sloping seabeds at depths of 1 to 20 meters. It is one of several common hard corals. During the day, you can often see the tentacles of coral polyps extending from the coral body to feed.

Moss table staghorn coral

Moss table staghorn coral is called table coral in English. It looks like a table and is very easy to identify. It is a branched type like rough staghorn coral. corals, but they grow horizontally, creating a larger surface layer to receive more sunlight.

It is usually brown or green in color, and the flat tabletop provides shelter for many coral fishes. These colorful reef fish swimming around the moss staghorn coral add a lot of life and color to it.

Brain coral

Brain coral is so named because the coral’s spherical shape and grooves on its surface resemble animal brains. Brain corals are somewhat aggressive. At night, they will extend their tentacles to sting nearby corals or release toxins to inhibit the growth of other types of corals around them. This type of coral comes in a variety of colors, including red, green, orange or gray, and is widely distributed. The largest brain coral has a lifespan of 900 years. Coral bodies can grow up to 1.8 meters tall. Shown here is the splayed brain coral.

Blue coral

Blue coral, also called blue coral, is the only coral in the subclass Octoporaphyllum that can grow large skeletons. The skeleton of pale coral is composed of calcium carbonate and metal salts, which is a unique blue color. The outside of the skeleton is usually covered by green-gray or blue polyps. Pale coral mainly grows in tropical waters, located on intertidal reef platforms and shallow reef slopes, forming shallow water coral reefs.

Star Coral

Star Coral is a type of stony coral found in the Caribbean Sea. It can form huge rocks, sometimes in the form of plates. The star coral's polyps are about the size of a person's thumb and are fully extended at night.

Orange Cup Coral

Orange Cup Coral is a stony coral formed by a relatively large coral polyp. Depending on the type of polyp, the color of the coral body formed will vary. There are many forms. Shown here is an orange cup coral.

Elkhorn Coral

Elkhorn Coral is considered one of the most important reef-building corals in the Caribbean. This coral has a complex structure with many large branches. The coral structure is very similar to that of elkhorn, and lobsters, parrot fish, snappers, and other reef fish all like to call elkhorn coral home. Elkhorn coral colonies grow very fast, averaging 5 to 10 centimeters per year, and can eventually reach 3.7 meters.

Soft corals

Soft corals are more colorful and have more varied shapes than hard corals. Although it has some hard skeleton, its skeleton is composed of calcium carbonate mixed with protein, so it is not as hard as hard coral. These corals have "roots", but because they don't have a hard calcareous shell, they sway back and forth with the current in the sea, looking more like plants swaying in the breeze.

Several common soft corals

Gorgonian

Gorgonian is a type of soft coral, also known as sea whip or sea fan. A community formed by a single tiny polyp, which develops branches in a vertical plane direction, resembling a fan. Some gorgonians are whip-like or shell-shaped. Typically a coral colony can be several feet tall and wide, but may be only a few inches thick. They are brightly colored, usually purple or yellow. Gorgonians primarily grow in shallow waters, but have also been found in waters thousands of feet deep. The size, shape and appearance of gorgonians are related to their location. Gorgonian corals with more obvious fan shapes and more complex structures mainly grow in shallow water areas or areas with rapid currents. Taller, thinner, harder gorgonians are more common in deep sea areas.

Acanthus soft coral

Looks very much like a flowering tree because the "flowers" at the end resemble carnations, and is also called carnation acanthus coral. They are one of the most beautiful soft corals in the ocean, very rich in color, and thrive both underwater and in caves. Mainly found on Indo-Pacific islands, including Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. Unfortunately, this soft coral is very sensitive to changes in water quality, and as the ocean becomes more polluted, its population is declining.

Leather coral

Leather coral is also called mushroom leather coral. Leather coral has various shapes, mostly gray, with white or golden polyp tentacles on the surface. It is very difficult to tell the specific type of leather coral because they all look like mushrooms and are very similar in appearance. Each leather coral has a distinct stem and mushroom head. As corals age, wrinkles form on the surface.

Sea pens

Sea pens, like sea whips and gorgonians, belong to the subclass Octoporaphylla. They are named for their feathery appearance, which is reminiscent of ancient quills. Some types of sea pens can grow up to 2 meters, such as tall sea pen corals, and some species are brightly colored. In order to avoid being uprooted by eddies (perhaps because they grow too big and attract wind), they mainly live in deeper seas, and are rarely seen in seas with a depth of less than 10 meters.

Bubble Coral

Bubble coral mainly grows in the Pacific Ocean and parts of the Red Sea. It looks like a bunch of blisters or a bunch of grapes, with many large water-filled vesicles covering the surface and a hard skeleton underneath. Bubble corals come in different species, colors and forms. These vesicles swell and expand when exposed to sunlight, forming white or yellow bubbles that look like bubbles, eggs, or grapes. At night, the vesicles shrink into finger-like tentacles that capture plankton for food. This coral is sometimes called grape or pearl coral and is also known as bladder coral.

With these skills, next time you post on Moments, you can include a text like this.

“When we were closest, the distance between me and it was only 0.01 centimeters. 26.01 seconds later, I fell in love with this coral reef because of this white catkin soft coral.

"Perfect!