GARDEN EELS
Splendid garden eels live in a buried tube in the sand in numbers ranging from alone to over a thousand eels. They feed on drifting plankton. I photographed the...
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Splendid garden eels live in a buried tube in the sand in numbers ranging from alone to over a thousand eels. They feed on drifting plankton. I photographed these eels in the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum aquarium.
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Paul_Joslin
December 01, 2023
Good question, Apparently they got their name because somebody with a vivid imagination thought they looked a lot like plants waving about in the sea floor especially when in large numbers each with one end sticking out of the ground like plants do. 😀
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