Anenome question

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Anenome question

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I was about to delete this picture of Urticina crassicornis from yesterday's dive, when I noticed an appendage sticking out of the stalk. What's going on here?
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I'm not seeing an appendage? Do you mean that curled tube thing in the foreground? Cause that's a tubeworm of some kind.
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Thats a good call. At first glance it looks as though it may be attached, but after a close look, not connected at all.
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You guys are right. When I zoomed in I saw I had screwed up. Live a clean life and someday you will be an old man too. Sorry for my error.
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oldsalt wrote:Live a clean life and someday you will be an old man too.
Maybe so, but you won't have very many good stories to tell ;)
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No need to apologize. We're all somewhere on the learning scale, and there are more things in heaven and Puget Sound than are dreamt of in our books, Horatio :tomnic:
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