Nudibranch Lovers

[diver 85]

Luko........those are some BEAUTIFUL pics you're posting....Keep em coming if you have more......Here's the same nudi(X3).....CFWA Apo Island, Philippines Oct 2012......

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[Scuba_Jenny]

Yesterdays dive at the bridge
Flabellina. Wondered why it wasn't stretched out like I normally find them. Only after I get home and pop the photos in Adobe Bridge, do I see why.. Woot! Two of them!

Oh.. a little nudibranch whoot woot going on!

And I have NO idea what the heck this is. I found it, shot some photos, and as I was shooting, that little voice in the back of my head is saying "sometimes it's just nothing." so I grabbed a sea shell to see if it would move. It was on the end of some hydroid and it flapped in the gentle current.. ok, nothing..

then it moved..this photo was taken as it was completing the move from hydroid to the shell/rock

 

[Searcaigh]

Agree.. Part of the fun of photography for me is to NOT move the subject around..

Photographing a nudibranch with the original substrate where you find it is also helpful for identification and frequently to further knowledge on what the nudibranch feeds on, and possibly where it lays its eggs.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

And I broke one of the rules yesterday in photographing that yellow thing.. Course, at the time I didn't know if it was alive or not...


anyways, it's not a nudi or even a flat worm Still pretty cool find, I think.

From the Critter ID FB page:

"That is a Cirratulid worm, a deposit feeder. They gather food with long "tentacles". Some are free-living and some live in tubes, while others are capable of burrowing and/or crawling around corals, gravel and rubble. Their nick name is Hair Worm"

 

[Tigerman]

Well, makes sense.. it has long yellow hair, dont it?

 

[Tjack]

Hair Worm, the underwater wonders never cease?

Nice 'head shots' there Luko

 

[Tjack]

Here is a group of Chromodoris (Sp?) from Nalusuan island off Mactan, Philippines



I have been going through my Nudi ID books and don't seem to have a good one for Philippines, any recommendations?

 

[Tigerman]

Given the photo is bw it doesnt make it easier

Are they yellow/white/black/blue? (Quadricolor)

Edit: from the lack of stripes and location, not quadricolor. Cold be chromodoris annae if beforementioned colors?


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[jodylynn007]

[h=1]Flabellina trophina nudibranch on kelp[/h]Found this lovely photogenic nudibranch in the shallows at Kelvin's Grove, Lion's Bay, British Columbia on 8 December 2013. Above water air temperature was below freezing, water temp hovering just above freezing. Lovely surroundings made for great photos, so I took a few.

 

[kevinl4270]

Nudi from Puerto Galera