Risbecia godeffroyana feeding & trailing [2]

Dear Bruce,
Thanks again. I am so glad you have found the time to look through your slides. I can't add anything to your comments on your upper photo. It looks like it just decided to take 'time out'. I haven't room to display the whole of your photo 3  so the two middle photos, and the inset, are parts of it. It is very interesting. You can see in the left photo that there are patches of purple. When you look at them carefully in your original photo there are clear signs they have been eaten. I suspect there is a large colony of this purplish sponge which is being covered by other sponges and plant growths. In the right photo, I have included a close-up of part of the purplish sponge in the hollow just to the bottom right of the other photo. This is clearly Euryspongia, which is what I suspected was the food sponge in your earlier message. So it confirms my thoughts in that message that Euryspongia colonies are the food of Risbecia godeffroyana, and they are often usually overgrown, making their presence almost impossible to detect by the casual observer.

I have added the 'other animals' possible juveniles? in an inset. Although a couple look like slugs, I suspect they are jointed animals, crustacea? or worms?  I am afraid I can't say anything about the lower photo, but after the positive identification of Euryspongia in the other photo, I am not complaining. 

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman