Upon entering the room, he was horrified to find one of his precious anemones had detached from the aquarium bottom and been carried by the current to the drain, where, in the manner of gelatinous things everywhere, it had been sucked down the drainpipe partway, where it had inflated, sealing itself in the drain.
At this point, did he turn off the incurrent water, put on some gloves, and remove the wayward animal? No, OF COURSE he didn’t. Instead, he quickly reached under the tank and grabbed the long hose draining into the tank below. He put the excurrent end of the hose in his mouth and blew, trying to blow twenty or more pounds of gooey gelatinous snot-like anemone back out of the drain against the head of water pressure pushing it down the drain.
Well…
THAT didn’t work…
After expelling a lungful of air into the hose, he reflexively gasped for more, opening his mouth and releasing the—now pressurized—air he had just blown into the tube. Of course, the water pressure surge
a swelling, rolling, or sweeping motion such as that of waves.">surge slammed the anemone back down the tube, and when it reached the end of its sudden movement, a tentacle snapped, breaking off, and slid with the remnant water current down the rubber tube to enter and apparently become lodged directly in the center of his mouth between his lips, like he was sucking up a pink strand of vermicelli – or “electrifyingly stinging spaghetti.”
Link: http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2017/05/16/cnidarian-stings-part-ii-kissed-by-anemone/
At this point, did he turn off the incurrent water, put on some gloves, and remove the wayward animal? No, OF COURSE he didn’t. Instead, he quickly reached under the tank and grabbed the long hose draining into the tank below. He put the excurrent end of the hose in his mouth and blew, trying to blow twenty or more pounds of gooey gelatinous snot-like anemone back out of the drain against the head of water pressure pushing it down the drain.
Well…
THAT didn’t work…
After expelling a lungful of air into the hose, he reflexively gasped for more, opening his mouth and releasing the—now pressurized—air he had just blown into the tube. Of course, the water pressure surge
a swelling, rolling, or sweeping motion such as that of waves.">surge slammed the anemone back down the tube, and when it reached the end of its sudden movement, a tentacle snapped, breaking off, and slid with the remnant water current down the rubber tube to enter and apparently become lodged directly in the center of his mouth between his lips, like he was sucking up a pink strand of vermicelli – or “electrifyingly stinging spaghetti.”
Link: http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2017/05/16/cnidarian-stings-part-ii-kissed-by-anemone/