Osprey
Jul 10th 2007, 02:01 PM
Kind of cool:
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w7/ospreypatronus/100_1130.jpg
When I first saw this, the tank lights weren't on yet, and I almost screamed; I thought it was the whole shrimp. The antennae and legs were waving in the current and made it look like a gruesome struggle for survival. Good thing it's just a moult. It took five hours from the time of this picture for the coral to engulf the entire piece.
AFAIK, they (t. geoffroyi, the open brain coral) don't normally eat anything this large, and I don't think shrimp exoskeleton is particularly nutritious, so I expect to see it regurgitated later.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w7/ospreypatronus/100_1130.jpg
When I first saw this, the tank lights weren't on yet, and I almost screamed; I thought it was the whole shrimp. The antennae and legs were waving in the current and made it look like a gruesome struggle for survival. Good thing it's just a moult. It took five hours from the time of this picture for the coral to engulf the entire piece.
AFAIK, they (t. geoffroyi, the open brain coral) don't normally eat anything this large, and I don't think shrimp exoskeleton is particularly nutritious, so I expect to see it regurgitated later.