Reef Discussion

[firebird]

I have 3 small barnacles on an acan. the other day I happened to see one' eject ' itself completely from the coral. Whilst looking this up to see if I could believe my eyes, I came across this
http://www.sciencemadecool.com/2006/09/friday_parasite.html

There are quite a lot of references to this-like a horror movie barnacle.Have to feel sorry for the crabs Dynamic- you'll like this and Matt and all those Human Centipede followers

 

[VaultBoy]

Thats some creepy shit.... glad im not a crab!

 

[MTG]

interesting :confused: i wonder how it changes the crabs sex? a chemical injected into its body?

 

[VaultBoy]

the way it intertwines itself in the crabs body it would only have to make more female hormones than the crab makes male. Soon enough the crab would startto change!

 

[Josh M]

Holy shitballs ! Poor crabs

 

[Dr. Schell]

don't you just love parasites! Invasion of the body-snatchers!

 

[firebird]

I used to love looking at parasites under the microscope-lots of real pretty ones and ones that you were glad weren't our size