Oct 24, 2018
With friends like these, who needs anemones?
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With friends like these, who needs anemones?
Watch this barber slug fulfill its anemoneeds!
🎥Joe Platko in Monterey!
UPDATE! Hey everyone! Sorry for the confusion! Here’s more info to explain what’s going on: The anemone retreats once it feels the pinch of the barber slug’s bite. Latching on, the slug is pulled in with the anemone, not wanting to let go of its meal. Once the slug snips off a tentacle or two, it pulls itself back out of the tube and moves on to the next anemone spaghetti dish, while the anemone waits for the coast to clear before coming back out from its tube.
Rainbow nudibranchs—aka "barber slugs"—patrol the sea floor in search of tube anemone tentacles to trim. Growing to nearly a foot, they're one of the most imposing sea slugs you'll find on a dive in Monterey Bay!