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- What are sea fans predators?
- What lives on sea fans?
- How big can sea fans get?
- Is a sea fan a carnivore?
- What do sea fans eat?
- Is sea fan an animal?
- Is jellyfish an animal?
- Can coral be black?
- How fast do sea fans grow?
- Is brain coral hard or soft?
- What is a coral fan?
- Why Gorgonia is known as sea fan?
- Where are sea fans found?
What are sea fans predators?
Sea fan predators can include a tiny snail (Neosimnia barbarensis) that eats their flesh and lays its eggs on their branches. Besides a white shell, I have red and brown Neosimnia shells and wonder if they absorb the color of the gorgonian they eat.
What lives on sea fans?
Sea fans host other marine life.
Tiny pygmy seahorses perch on their branches, using their long, prehensile tails to hold on. One type of seahorse that lives on these corals is the common pygmy or Bargibant's seahorse. This seahorse has two color morphs—one a pinkish color and one yellow.
How big can sea fans get?
There are about 500 species of Gorgonia, and they differ markedly in their branching patterns. All, however, grow to approximately 60 cm (2 feet) in height. Sea fans are found in the shallow waters of all oceans, but they are especially abundant along the Atlantic coasts of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies.
Is a sea fan a carnivore?
Although a sessile animal, the sea fan is a nocturnal, carnivorous, passive feeder which develops around strong water currents. The tentacles of the polyps extend outward which allows the zooplankton to be collected and eaten (Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999).
What do sea fans eat?
Most Sea Fans are nocturnal, only extending their polyps during the nighttime hours. They consume plankton and require strong currents to carry their food.
Is sea fan an animal?
Sea fans look a lot like plants with colorful, forked "branches." But they're actually animals, just like their relatives, the corals and jellies. Sea fans are colonial animals — they're made up of many tiny, individual animals that work together as one.
Is jellyfish an animal?
jellyfish, any planktonic marine member of the class Scyphozoa (phylum Cnidaria), a group of invertebrate animals composed of about 200 described species, or of the class Cubozoa (approximately 20 species).
Can coral be black?
Black corals are rarely black, but rather vary in color from white to red, green, yellow, or brown. They also range in shape from small bushes to bottle brushes to fans to single stalks. The black corals differ greatly from stony corals in terms of their skeletons.
How fast do sea fans grow?
They seem to be very healthy with polyp extension and good color but they have only grown 1/8 of an inch in 6 months. Other reef keepers have had the same experience. In the wild, these sea fans grow very fast. However, in captivity they grow very slowly.
Is brain coral hard or soft?
Hard corals
They have six (or multiples of six) smooth tentacles. Common types of hard coral on the Reef include brain coral and staghorn coral.
What is a coral fan?
Coral fans are non-solid blocks that come in 5 variants: tube, brain, bubble, fire, and horn. Dead coral fans are the dead variants of coral fans.
Why Gorgonia is known as sea fan?
The skeleton is composed of calcite and gorgonion, a collagen-like compound. The calyces in which the polyps are embedded are in two rows along the branches. Many of the smaller branches are compressed in the plane of the fan, which distinguishes this species from the Venus sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum).
Where are sea fans found?
The Common Sea Fan can be found in patches of reefs and outer areas of the reefs typically in water depths up to 30 meters, and they tend to thrive in areas where the water flow is at a constant speed. The speed of the water is important due to the fact that all sea fans are filter feeders.
