Coral Reef and Volcanic Islands I have two questions regarding coral reef and volcanic islands.

When a new volcanic island is formed, how much time generaly passes before a coral reef starts to form around the island?

Another question: Are there any volcanic islands in warm pacific waters which do not show fringing or a barrier reef? If so, is this because the island was formed recently and is still too hot for a coral reef to flourish?
I just came upon this paper by Tomascik et al. (1996). It does not answer directly your question, but I found it sufficiently relevant to post it here anyway. It's a study of coral colonization after emplacement of a lava flow. They found that only five years after emplacement of an andesitic lava flow from Gunung Api in 1988, large parts of this new coastline was already covered by coral. They mention a previous study (Grigg and Maragos 1974) on Hawaii where it took 20-50 years for coral to colonize a submerged lava flow.

Of course, in those cases the coral could come from nearby reefs, while in the case of a new island it has to come from further away. So those fast colonization timescales are not directly applicable to your question.