Burp

Picture 166,
originally uploaded by Hongyee.

Big bellies!

Tentacles retract and the polyps become bulbous after feeding. The white stuff are pieces of shrimp and squid that they are trying to swallow, the light creamy orange part of the Dendrophyllia is the calcacerous skeleton. The small baby polyps growing out of the mother polyp can also be seen more clearly in feeding mode.