Hydnophora sending out sweeper

[Gatortailale]

Hydnophora sending out sweeper of some sort to try to sting my gorgonian.  It did the same thing about 2 months ago and nuked the base of my orange montipora.

 

Picture near bottom of my thread in Gallery:

 

http://www.wamas.org/cgi-bin....=3;t=18

 

Anyone ever see anything like this?

 

In one of the pictures after the hydro. pic. you can see the full colony in a tank shot.

 

Craig

[michaelg]

That looks exactly like what I have seen from mine- fortunately, he tried to do it to the heliopora (blue ridge coral), and it had zero affect on it.  When I have seen it on several occassions, it has looked like it puts them out from the underside of the coral.  Your photo is a great example of how deliberate those sweepers are- they wrap up the victim in a web of toxin.  

 

Michael