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Astrophyton muricatum
During the day, it curls up into a tight ball shape to protect itself from predators. At night, it climbs to an elevated point to feed by extending its intricately branched feeding arms in a bowl-like shape in order to snare passing plankton and other organisms from the current.
Night dive in Bari Reef, Bonaire.
Spotted on Sep 13, 2017
Submitted on Dec 30, 2017
3 Comments
It's perfect that you got both shots and interesting to see the night and daytime behaviors! Great spottings :)
Hi Christine, I thought it was quite interesting because at first during the day we were wondering what these fuzzy balls in the corals were and then at night the mistery was solved :-)
So cool that you got day and night shots!