Garden Eels
Long thin with a circular cross section 14 millimetres 0 55 in in average diameter and a head of the same diameter as the body.
Garden eels. Will stretch from adjacent burrows and intertwine bodies to spawn. Its body is anguiform eel like. They anchor themselves to the ocean floor using their own mucus and contort into strange shapes and positions to catch plan.
A garden eel s best defense is a quick retreat into its burrow but some of its predators including the snake eel and the trigger fish have developed creative ways of reaching their prey. The spotted garden eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 40 centimetres 16 in. Garden eels live a strange life.
Sometimes a strange kind of crop sprouts in the sandy bottom. The gardens eel are the subfamily heterochongrinae in the conger eel family congridae the majority of garden eels live in the indo pacific but species are also found in warmer parts of the atlantic ocean including the caribbean and east pacific. The garden eel then coats the sand walls with mucus from its body to cement the sand grains together to prevent collapse.
Garden eels use their mucus to anchor themselves to the ocean floor and contort into strange shapes and positions to catch plankton.