Feast for Sea Stars!

Did a dive last week at Ponquouge Bridge in Hampton Bays, NY. These are Forbes Sea Stars (Asterias forbesii) feeding on a bed of blue mussels (Mvtilus edulis). To eat them, sea stars pull on the shell of the mussel until the mussel becomes tired and open up just a little bit. Once open, the sea stars pushes its stomach out of its body, into the shell of the mussel. The stomach juices digest the mussel, and when done, the stomach is pulled back in, and they move onto the next mussel.

Try that with your next meal!

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What an interesting shot! TFS

Too bad we cannot get Sea stars to adapt to a freshwater environment, then we'd turn 'em loose to feed on Zebra mussels in our freshwater lakes and streams.

Nice shot, BTW and I always like hearing the story behind it all, too, so thanks for that as well.

Wish you would post to the Post your Underwater Shots post so we can show UW interest levels! Great shot!

MizzGrizz wrote in post #8596116
What an interesting shot! TFS

Thank you.

Naturalist wrote in post #8596171
Too bad we cannot get Sea stars to adapt to a freshwater environment, then we'd turn 'em loose to feed on Zebra mussels in our freshwater lakes and streams.

Nice shot, BTW and I always like hearing the story behind it all, too, so thanks for that as well.

Thank you. Yeah that would solve a lot of problems, and at the rate they eat, it would solve them very quickly!

mikerault wrote in post #8596661
Wish you would post to the Post your Underwater Shots post so we can show UW interest levels! Great shot!

Where is that thread? I did not know of an underwater forum?

Thank you.
Chris

We are trying to get one established! We need to show "interest" before the mods will create one.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=650197

Nice shot, I just love underwater photos!

Wow that is an awesome shot and I learned something new too. Thanks for the cool tidbit of info. I always wondered how and what sea stars would eat.

mikerault wrote in post #8603024
We are trying to get one established! We need to show "interest" before the mods will create one.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=650197

Well, I just got back from a week in Bermuda. I did some diving. I will post some pics to that thread once I down load them.

kayl wrote in post #8612109
Nice shot, I just love underwater photos!

Morlow wrote in post #8612125
Wow that is an awesome shot and I learned something new too. Thanks for the cool tidbit of info. I always wondered how and what sea stars would eat.

Thank you!
Chris

Thanks!

Cool shots! I wish I could eat like that!