In the springtime, the oakwood floor is carpeted with a display of bluebells, wood sorrel and wood anemones.
They may harm crabs and shrimp, clams, feather dusters, anemones and similar tankmates.
Most are unsuccessful and die or are fed upon by zooplankton and bottom dwelling predators such as anemones and other corals.
These are most common in corals, sponges and sea anemones.
Close relatives without calcareous hard parts suffered only minor losses, for example sea anemones, from which modern corals evolved.
As it normally reproduces asexually by basal laceration—a process whereby small fragments of tissue tear away from it and regenerate into tiny anemones—its distribution can be patchy and changeable.
I shall deal, first, with anemones.
However, the underwater wildlife there includes an amazing collection of 24 species of sponges, as well as cuttlefish, tompot blennies, burrowing anemones, slipper limpets and hermit crabs.
