Coral City Camera

305 Day - our slogan is ‘Civic Pride Through Biodiversity’ and today we celebrate Miami, an incomparable city harboring manatees and other marine megafauna in its midst. Don’t take it for granted! Today we were graced by this absolute unit of a manatee!! 🤩〰️🐮〰️🌇 #305day #coralcitycamera

Hello! Hello!! Anybody home?? #stoplightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera

Cutiepie floating by!! 👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #boxfish #swimminghandbag #coralcitycamera

Manatee, uh, pruning the coral garden, while, uh, fertilizing it 🫣〰️💩🐮✂️🪸〰️🥲 #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera

Coral City after dark stays beefin with these two French grunts mouthing off 😮😮 #frenchgrunts #grunt #mouthfight #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera

Houndfish gang dropped down from their usual haunt near the surface where they are known to reign terror down from above on the little fishies below #houndfish #needlefish #coralcitycamera

Round two of the striped parrotfish kiss off #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #coralcitycamera #kissoff

Coral City Camera | Great Barracuda 6 Minute Hover (Site 2) | 2.25.26 YouTube video by Coral Morphologic

Spend 6 minutes with a Great Barracuda @ the CCC

The water was near immaculate at high tides this week. Who’s been tuning in? Let’s stay blue in 2026 #barracuda #ooobarracuda #teeth #chomp #coralcitycamera

Spotfin butterflyfish born looksmaxxed 🦋🐟💁‍♂️ #spotfinbutterflyfish #butterflyfish #coralcitycamera

Sharp eyes noticed this dark mantis shrimp creeping along the LBC (lower brain coral) this morning 👀🐛🧠🪸 #mantisshrimp #darkmantis #braincoral #coralcitycamera #stomatopod

WEIRD MIAMI moments on the water 🌊

Colin Foord of Coral Morphologic leads a boat tour through Miami’s luminous, vulnerable, marine landscapes 🪸🌇🪸

100k followers! Thank You, Coral Heads!

Miami dolphins ftw! Whole pod squad, baby and all, came thru last night!! 🙌🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🌃 #bottlenosedolphin #dolphinsofcoralcity #dolphin #podsquad #coralcitycamera

CamDam allows the Spanish Hogfish to give it a once over, but no cleaning services are rendered #spanishhogfish #damselfish #camdam #coralcitycamera #cleaningstation

Here come the manatee!! 🥹〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #seapotato

Nothing freaks out the fish of Coral City more than the birds! Death from above! Look out grunts! Beware!! 🐦‍⬛😱🐟🐟🐟🐟 #cormorant #doublecrestedcormorant #tomtate #coralcity #dfa

They really said ‘one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish’ #stoplightparrotfish #blueparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #coralcitycamera

Lizardfish decided today was a day time for a dirt nap 🦎🐟🫨😑🏝️ #lizardfish #sanddiver #dirtnap #coralcitycamera

The sassy Spanish hogfish swims at sunset 🔮🇪🇸🐷🐟🪸🌇 #spanishhogfish #sassy #sunset #coralcitycamera

My what a beautifully long tail you have!! #spottedeagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #eagleray #remora

A bioluminescent dinoflagelate (a single-celled organism) got accidentally smeared by the Camera’s midnight wiper to extraordinary effect 💫 (Don’t worry, it survived, it continued glowing in place for several minutes under the wiper itself) #bioluminescence #coralcityafterdark #coralcitycamera

💗 Happy Valentine’s Day 💗

Love is in the water in Coral City! This pair of hamlets rose up in a heart-shaped embrace to fertilize the next generation of baby hamlets 🥹💙🐟🐟 #barredhamlet #lovers #love #embrace #coralcitycamera

‘We got lucky’: How Florida wildlife died — or survived — in the brutal February freeze A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive. Some survived. Thousands of others did not.

A record-breaking freeze this month sent Florida wildlife into shock. Some of those animals were native, some were invasive. Some survived. Thousands of others did not.

Lil grunts, big mad!! #frenchgrunt #lilgrunt #mouthoff #bigmad #coralcitycamera

Peaceful manatee timeline cleanse 〰️🐮〰️ #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #coralcitycamera #timelinecleanse #peaceful

A stoplight parrotfish heralds the arrival of the squid squad while a striped parrotfish sees them out 🚦🦜🐟🦑🦑🦑🏳️‍⚧️🦜🐟 #squidsquad #cephalopodsofcoralcity #stoplightparrotfish #stripedparrotfish #coralcitycamera

No shade at all but please do not suggest this as a place for him to hunt at. It’s a federal scientific site and not an acceptable place to dive unless they like getting hauled away by the cops.