Blood and Guts

In the depths of the Lower Derwent Estuary, a mass of urchins were gnawing away at the seaweed which the Brachionichthys Hirsutus calls home.

An anglerfish crawls around a holdfast, to avoid the rusty metal chain dragging along the seabed with it, a barnacle-infested anchor.

As the anchor nears, siltation occurs, a huge cloud of sand, silt, and anything else that had settled on the seabed got whisked up, choking hundreds.

The remaining Spotted Handfish scurried away as fast as their hands would take them, leaving behind all their possessions including their eggs.

As the anchor raced away into the distance at speed, the fish mourned the Lophiiformes that had died and then hid for fear predators would sense the blood that had been drawn.

When the silhouettes of the Northern Pacific Sea Stars closed in, they began to slaughter and tear up the handfish and very few survived the short and bloody mass murder of the Spotted Handfish.