Tube Anemone eating video
 

Shows the Tube Anemone catching food particles floating in the water column. Click on Image to start AVI. Apple Quicktime required. 9.6 Mbytes large.




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Cool stuff! :cool:

:cool: That's very amazing! It's very quick to put the food particles in it's mouth and get it's tentilcle back out again! I was waiting for the "crocadile hunter" narration though! :lol:

I don't know if anyone likes them, but I saw one at Gold Aquarium the other day. I have read they like to eat fish too. :eek:

Fortunately, I am happy to report that all fish in the tank are accounted for and none has gone missing since the anemone's introduction 5 months ago.

What's interesting about this anemone is that they have 2 sets of tentacles. The long orange tentacles catch the food that floats by and then passes the food off to the shorter black tentacles which frees up the long tentacles to catch more food. Meanwhile, the short tentacles pass the food to the anemone's mouth.