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Carpet Anemones (Stichodactyla sp.) in three different colours! The colour of a carpet anemone is due to the symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) that they harbour in their tentacles.

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Carpet anemones (Stichodactyla sp.) on coral rubble area with sponges and algae in the background.

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Carpet Anemones (Stichodactyla sp.)

In water, they take on fabulous flowery shapes.

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.)

The underside of anemones may be sooth or covered with bumps.

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Carpet Anemone (Stichodactyla sp.)

This one appears to have eaten something very large!

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.)

on the coral rubble area with a sea cucumber (upper left corner).

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.) with a fan worm sheltering under it (lower right corner).

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.)

This one had a striped pattern which is not often seen.

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Carpet anemones (Stichodactyla sp.) among seagrasses in the lagoon.

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.) among seagrasses in the lagoon.

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Baby sea anemones growing on various hard surfaces

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Baby sea anemones starting life in the shelter of seaweed

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Carpet anemone (Stichodactyla sp.)

At low tide, may pull itself into the sand for protection against drying out.

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Thorny sea cucumber (Colochirus quadrangularis)

Sea cucumbers are not slugs or worms. They are echinoderms, a group which includes seastars, sand dollars and sea urchins.

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Synaptid sea cucumbers on orange sponge

These sea cucumbers are often mistaken for worms. They also have long, branched tentacles to gather food particles. They are often found on sponges.

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Tiny red sea cucumbers on seaweed

These tiny sea cucumbers also have long, branched tentacles which sweep the water to trap food particles. They are found in huge numbers among the seaweeds, rubble and sponges near the beacon.

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Tiny red sea cucumbers

These tiny sea cucumbers are yet to be identified.

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Synaptid sea cucumbers

Synaptid sea cucumbers appear to be seasonally abundant. Sometimes they are everywhere, at other times seldom seen.

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Large smooth sea cucumber

These sea cucumbers are smooth because they have small or no tube feet. Sea cucumbers belong to the Family Holothuridae which means 'cucumber-like'. Many are basically just moving intestines, swallowing mud and sand, digesting the nutritious organic particles.

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Sandfish (Holothuria scabra)

These are among the edible sea cucumbers that are threatened by over-collection as a delicacy.

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