Photo of the Day: Emperor's shrimp on the sea cucumber

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Emperor's shrimp on the sea cucumber

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Emperor shrimp are a commensal shrimp living mainly with nudibranches but are also found on sea cucumbers. They live on their fecal matter.
 

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Well, I thought the picture was amazing. :love: And then came the info about their food of choice, fecal matter. :puke:Now, I can only imagine what it is eating on!
 

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Well, I thought the picture was amazing. :love: And then came the info about their food of choice, fecal matter. :puke:Now, I can only imagine what it is eating on!

You think that's bad pearl fish (Carpus sp) live in a sea cucumbers anus.
 

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OMG! Way to much info!! :lalala: Must.. find... happy.. place.. :pray2: (LOL I'm teasin'.. that is disturbingly disgusting, though!)
 

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Well at least you can say that nothing goes to waste :frog: Still is a very cool picture no matter what it eats.
 

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That's cool. I'm glad humans don't have things like that. My wife would say "stop playing with your anus shrimp. It's not a toy". She loves me.
 

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Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!!:pound::pound: :pound:
 

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Hahah, our sea cucumbers all poo little clumps of clean looking, white sand.
 

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