Some sea nettles "pancake" when they are eating, retracting up all their tentacles to help move food into their stomach cavities.
Some sea nettles "pancake" when they are eating, retracting up all their tentacles to help move food into their stomach cavities.
This is a bay nettle I kept for around a year, swimming in brine shrimp, and you can see how it pulls up all its oral arms and tentacles into a little flat pancake as it eats. It's a pretty fast process, too.