23 photos - 2 species

I have posted many photos of this species,

but they are just too beautiful

and their colours are so variable that it is well worth looking at them.

Bispira brunnea

Social feather duster

Maximum size: 3 - 6 cm

Maximum depth: 1.5 - 35 m

Tubes loosely connected to the substrate.

Asexual reproduction, often dense colonies that live in parchment-like tubes.

It catches fine plankton for food with its colour-variable tentacle crown.

Photos 1 - 2 Astrid: Bonaire Caribbean

Spirobranchus giganteus

Christmas tree worm, Horned feather worm

or Giant christmas tree worm

Maximum diameter: 1.5 cm

Tentacle crown constructed from a double spiral.

Variable colours.

Lives individually or in colonies embedded in living corals.

Photos 1 - 20 Johnny: Different oceans