When Corals ATTACK!!!

[jc-reef]

I woke up the other morning and did my usual 'lookabout' in the tank when the lights were still off and I was in instant shock and awe!!!! :eek1:

I immediately grabbed my Macro camera and shot these pics... ENJOY






When corals ATTACK!!!!!






My Acan spun a tenticle web 4" away on a frag colony of zoos and started to reel it in like it was fishing!!! Crazy!

And my favorite pic of them all.....

All but 4 polyps were devoured.


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[Aznreefer]

That happened to me a couple weeks back, my acan ate one of my ric. I since gave them all some space!

 

[Friday Night]

Holy web batman. Thats awsome and sucks at the same time.

Acan 1
Zoas 0

Acans on food search at night and thought zoas were food?

 

[RokleM]

It's an echinata. It's going to nuke anything around it regardless They are extremely aggressive and efficient.

 

[SIR PATRICK]

Those acan enchinatas can be brutal......did the polyps survive?

 

[XSharkboyX]

Great post, thanks for sharing!

 

[jc-reef]

Those acan enchinatas can be brutal......did the polyps survive?

yes..the 4 or so you see on the right side of the macro close up that were still opened were not affected...the remaining 'closed up' ones.....done.


Thanks, glad everyone likes the pics.

 

[dcortes19]

Those are amazing pics! I wonder what some battles between coral look like in the great barrier reef. That would be cool to see!

 

[BeanMachine]

Awesome thanks for posting!

 

[Zoalander]

Wow! What kind of Camera do you have?

 

[jc-reef]

Nikon D3100 with a 105mm Micro (macro) lens.

hmmm...for some reason photobucket is offline now for some maintenance :hmm4:

 

[mike810]

am I the only one that cannot see the pics?

 

[jc-reef]

am I the only one that cannot see the pics?

Photobucket is back up now!!!! Dunno what happened...guess some kind of maintenance.

 

[mike810]

wow that is freaking crazy!!! The only other time i saw something like this was on that special "Life" crazy. thanks for sharing

 

[gweston]

Freaky! Great catch with the camera!

 

[Noewho]

sorry to see but, cool pic.

 

[carloschali]

Echinatas will be aggressive with most lps we place right next to them. I had a mycedium, chalice looking coral that would do the same thing, it would swing 4 inches tentacles until it reached something and then it would not let go... lost a few palys that way.