In the south Glover' is; S Reef, surrounded by water so clear that the visibility, even the night is rather good: The long stem of the torch d' a plunger can transpierce l' water at a distance of 15 feet. Parce qu' it is with several miles of the continent, this reef n' is not affected by the silt and the streaming of the sediments. With Glover, l' arrival d' a plunger makes start cardinal bright red of swimming out of interstitial water, they s' on bodies called side lines along the two sides of their body press. A combination of sonar and radar, a direction of the side line vibrations and movements in l' water, allowing fish to detect the predatory ones and to request. C' is also a device d' early alarm. Like a fish, it creates a kind of wake arc which rebounds on solid objects.
When another fish feels the tread, it moves to avoid a collision. Glover' S Reef is the hearth of the Forest d' emerald, a site named for the horn d' dash splendid trees " corail" trunks d' a diameter foot and covers more than ten feet top. Several exotic fish species live also here, and the night, an apparatus photo-diver bearing cannot catch them deadened, returned against the reef, but always outside in l' opened. Chaetodon as coloured as the garden of the butterflies plane in l' water. Then hogfish with the pig, like the face mask, trumpets which resemble two feet of long musical instruments, and parrots, their mouths beaklike closed for the night.

Not all of the creatures of the reef are lost in the sleep, however. Manta lines and the sharks grind in darkness, seeking the meals. Lobsters, crabs, shrimps and nudibranches (slugs splendid on the sea) research the reef for food and the seconds. A mérou Nassau obtains its mouth " nettoyés" by a tiny shrimp, which s' hurl from left to right and from top to bottom to remove the parasites of small and dead fish flesh of the co-operative, its mouth solidified in a yawn broad. The shrimps receives a free meal, so to speak. Dr. Mary Wicksten, a marine biologist in Texas has & Mr. University and a specialist in these so-called stations of washing, known as that the fish to seek the stations established on the reef because l' activity is important for their health.
Like several fish of reef, the mérou of Nassau is remarkable for its capacity to change sex into growing old, which increases its chances of success of the reproduction when another mérou is filled. At the time d' a natural cut in Glover' S Reef, where l' water of the waves during l' evolution of the tide, a plunger can in freefall with l' horizontal, whipped by the high tension current. But hover to fish without obvious effort, their rationalized bodies designed by nature to maintain them in place under these conditions. Making covered on the walls of the cut, like the fingers d' an enormous hand, are sponges tubes lavender which eat by filtering the tiny plants and the animals of the sea. Software fans sea of coral, also filterers, to fold under the breeze as underwater in progress which brings a constant contribution of food to them. The dominate-form lifespan here, c' is the hard coral, which is able to resist the force d' action very strong wave.

When the current fate of this canyon, it stirs up the sand of the bottom d' a lagoon, which reduces the visibility. Some share close to the bottom, of the tortoises and manatees to nourish quietly on the marine herbaria, while small heads of coral forms alive mini-reefs with tiny fish. Another side of the lagoon is the marine reserve of Hol Chan, a small zone in broad Ambergris Cay where tangled up roots d' a forest mangrove to join in l' water.
Even here, dart small fish among the roots, with research for the meals or protection against the predatory ones. Hol Chan, which is Maya for " the coupe" , was created in 1987. It includes all the three habitats of l' ecosystem of the reef barrier: reef, lagoon, and mangroves. Although distinct, each sector depends on the others.
Marine Scientist Jacque Carter, which studied fish of the Belize a long time, writing: “The mangroves are a food and of nesting for fish of the reefs, they also silt traps and the streaming of sediments before d' to reach the reef. The lagoon is… a place of nourrissage for many fish of reefs, and marine grasses… reef-trap choking particles [by keeping them] d' to reach the lagoon, the mangroves and the areas extracôtières of l' destructive action of the waves. if a zone is damaged, the others are also touched - and c' is why it is important to protect l' together system, and not only the beautiful coral barrier.