Merry
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Phil on the line
Diving during dog days
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lamarpaulski
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The nudi in the ? cup anemones is really beautiful.
Agreed -- the colors are stunning!
Dog Days? I love them. And the temperatures are finally getting up to where they should be (at least here on Catalina)
TampaScuba
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Merry
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It's an aggregate of the salp Pegea confoederata. Each of those tubes is an individual, 4-inch animal. Sorry, I should have labeled all the critters today.
Here's a link to more info on salps than you'd ever want in your lifetime, but it shows Pegea in a smaller spiral, and also in its solitary form.
Salps do it two ways.
TampaScuba
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Merry
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Salps are pelagic tunicates and they don't sting. They're more closely related to us than they are to jellies. It's fun to watch them as they continuously pump water in one end and out the other, straining out tiny bits of plankton. I'm not familiar with the animals you get in Florida, but some years, we're loaded with salps in Southern Calf.
This shows the top end that opens and closes:
This shows the top end that opens and closes:
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