Shayle Matsuda

So right now, if you go out to Kaneohe Bay, you can smell their gametes.

Oh, really?

Yeah, after a big spawning event, you can definitely smell them.

Nice.

Coral mucus.

I feel like the longer you work with anything, the more you gain a nose for it.

Underwater, we're not really smelling anything.

But once you're covered in it, you definitely get a little earthy.

A little earthy.

A little musky.

But that's actually a great question because a lot of...

While we might not smell the corals, a lot of marine organisms use chemical senses to interact with their surrounding environments and things like that.

So there's a lot of smells, in that sense, going on in the water.

Concrete's composition, and we'll look this up, is it has a lot of the same attributes as like calcium carbonate coral skeletons.

It's a really great substrate because it's also kind of porous.

So a lot of times you'll see, like I think it is in Mexico where they have that underwater sculpture installation made out of concrete that, you know, different corals and

sponges and whatnot are all recruiting to.

So it can actually act as a pretty good substrate.

It's a really great substrate for artificial reefs.

That's a great question.