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Title: Nest Building Basslet, Cuba
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A male fairy basslet (royal gramma: Gramma loreto) carries algae back to his nest in a hole in a coral reef. Once the nest is filled with pieces of algae females will visit the nest to lay eggs on it. Jardines de la Reina, Gardens of the Queen National Park, Cuba. Caribbean Sea.
- Basslets: Grammatidae
- behaviour
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Caribbean Sea
- Cuba
- fairy basslet: royal gramma: purple gramma: Gramma loreto
- Fishes
- Gardens of the Queen
- Jardines de la Reina National Park
- male
- Marine Life
- nest
- nesting
- reproduction
- tropical
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