The second jaw is lined with backward facing curved teeth that gives it’s prey no chance of escape, maybe appealing to the moray’s better nature may be an option but science suggests that they haven’t got one. The jaws are extremely powerful especially in the larger moray’s that can grow up to 7ft in length! So observing and photographing these animals should be done so with a degree of caution and a lot of respect.

Moray’s mostly hunt at night so we usually see just the head poking out of it’s daytime resting place, often these hiding places are also cleaning stations. The moray will open up it’s mouth to let the cleaner wrasse and shrimp mop up the remains of last nights meal from the impressive set of dentures.