March 2020
yes! per L. Harris: "That's exactly what it's doing. It would be taking up the sand and swallowing it to digest attached organics or to use in tube building."
Hermissenda opalescens
tiny tube worms
tiny tube worms
tiny tube worms mixed with strange orange things- ah- Pycnoclavella stanleyi, yellow social ascidian. A couple more pictures below.
snail races
snail races
stalked jelly, 1/4''
stalked jelly, 1/4''
some kind of blenny
Phragmatopoma californica
Diopatra sp
stalked jelly; 1/4''
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