Sorry (about above) had to make room on my account so I had to delete "less then useful" pictures like designs etc, making room for photos of animals =).
Here is The Kraken, I thought I would have a go at photographing a live predation etc. happening for once rather then filming it...
He can smell the intruder in the tank and so begins to remove the barricade of coral around the entrance to his dwelling...
Intruder spotted further investigation required...upon contact the unknown inhabitant brought forth its long thin claws ready to attack but The Kraken would have none of it...
With the intruder now prey, subdued and The Kraken holding it my the head whilst munching on the preys eyeball...victory to The Kraken, as he stands in acknowledgement.
Killing the prey proved an easier task then getting it back into The Krakens own den...in a designer flaw/eyes to big for stomach or in this case home...the prey was to big for the dens entrance, so The Kraken began to enforce his will upon the entrance itself treating it like an intruder and throwing things out in order to get this phat tasty prawn into his lair to feast.
Alas for all his might there was something amiss...the dens entrance was free enough for his victim to fit...but the "victim" was still not moving as if 'stuck'...his victim was alive! Clinging for dear life to the side of the rock but all for naught, The Kraken realized swiftly that his "victim" had not yet succumbed and so, darted out, cracked the head twice, leaving the now truly victim, in a light spasm...
At last, The Kraken can feast upon his now true victim, sure enough that it is not only dead...but capable of fitting into his den...one last look from The Kraken rite at the camera as you can see so clearly...the evil eye, to the victor go the spoils.
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All this commotion stirred up another inhabitant of not necessarily the same stand...
Rocky wanted to know what all the commotion was about feeling somewhat left out in the bottom of STAND A...
I fed him after I took the pics and am lucky I did so, not only was he hungry but...there was nothing to capture! He shot out of his Acan encrusted live rock, like out of some sort of slow motion movie scene where the baddy and good guy are locked in combat whilst falling, except Rocky just pounded that shrimp like a mother and then took it to his burrow, all so fast and out of the camera that there was nothing to show in the end ='[
Either way his "upset" nature before hand made it very easy to get pictures of him up close since he was rite up at the front of the glass as if trying to see whats going on, he likes to "Charge" where by he will throw up a threatening display, crawl back a bit slowly, then move forward rapidly and trying to make himself even wider or more openly displayed, all in all really cute =D
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This seedy bastard gave me a fright last night, first time its happened in a long time, I noticed at lights out that he had breached his entrance and was now "on guard", in a "jokingly" manner I decided that whilst the lights were off I would run my finger like a worm on the outside above him...he struck the glass as if to take a fish really fast and it set me back a step, startled me as usually when I do it they just follow my finger with there eye stalks, first time Morgoth has really reached up and come out to try and grab it...
More to come!
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