The anemones in my aquarium cause me no end of trouble, with their semi-transparent tentacles always in motion, and their habit of picking the most awkward spots to settle in. I've taken hundreds of photos and deleted almost all of them. A fast shutter definitely helps.
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| Double lines in Val's tentacles. She often twists them in spirals like this. |
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| A quick shot, with minimal processing; cropping, resizing, white balance is all. |
The largest of the Orange Striped Green Anemones, Haliplanella lineata, (What a big name for such small critters!) has a good appetite, and a full crown of tentacles to keep it in groceries. It seems to have eaten something dark, which has left a black mark in the base, invisible in normal circumstances, but not when it's parked on glass.
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| These anemones have from 60 to 100 tentacles, up to about 2 inches long. This one is getting close to that maximum. |
Feeding, this anemone has a pale greenish cream column. The upper half is the same translucent off-white as the tentacles. I was starting to doubt my identification, when in protest against the hot weather and my slowness in providing more ice, it shut down, condensing itself to a half-inch round dark green mass, with the orange stripes it's named for. Chilled and happy once more, the stripes disappeared.
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