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Many species of corals, stone and soft alike, share another trait, the dinoflagellates, though in this symbiotic context they are known by another name: zooxanthellae. You can see their brown bodies inside the soft coral Xenia. In some corals the presence of these zooxanthellae might not be immediately obvious. Like this Zoanthus, which is under white light. Those brown dots that were so immediately obvious when we zoomed on the Zenia are not so obvious now. So where are teh zooxanthellae? To find them, we take advantage of the photosynthetic pigment inside of zooxanthellae: chlorophyll, which glows red when its excited with red light. When we illuminate the coral with this red light, we see the algae then as a bright red version of themselves tucked into different parts of the coral.