Pacific Spiney Lumpsucker

[primitivepete]

How many others have been lucky enough to see one of these funny little fishes?
I was lucky to see one a few months back.
It was during a safety stop while finishing a dive at Titlow Beach here in Washington.
They are so small and move and look like something out of a cartoon.
Something I will always remember.

 

[ColdH20diving]

Don't believe I've seen one of those........

 

[primitivepete]

ColdH20diving once bubbled...
Don't believe I've seen one of those........

I sense that you think I am making up the name?

 

[Uncle Pug]

I haven't seen one yet in the water... but I've seen Jeff's pictures of them... I think he even has them on his website

 

[retnug]

Go ot www.seaotter.com. Look under all species. You'll find it listed alphabetically.

 

[The Chairman]

I was ready for something along the lines of a matta-ewe or a henway.

Retnug, that is probably one of the finest links for sealife I have ever seen! Thanks.

 

[pentiumchic]

That is one neat looking little fish.Does it change colors like a cuttelfish?And NetDoc is right that is one nice sealife page.

Jen

 

[jeffkruse2000]

I have three in my fish tank. I need to take more pictures and post them. They can change color over the coarse of a day.

They are awesome. We see them all the time. We saw one last Thursday at Alki Junkyard. It was 3" Long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On that same dive we saw one the size of a grain of rice.

I saw my first two at Titlow. Now we see them all over. Three Tree North in December at night you will find many of them in the eelgrass. We have seen twelve on one dive there.
My wife has a picture posted on her web site.
http://www.underseavisions.com/FISH.htm

 

[primitivepete]

I thought people were going to start thinking I was breathing BAD air.
I could not believe it when we saw the one at Titlow.
They are funny to watch. It seemed almost playful.
I had no idea what it was. I got home and found it on the computer.
I to laughed at the name. (Hey NetDoc, Whats a Henway???)

The best part of my story is the next day when I told the manger of the local dive shop (also my instructor.)
That we saw a lumpsucker. He almost threw me out of the shop.
He has been diving over 20 years and never come across one.
To this day if I walk in to the shop and mention a Lumpsucker .
I get the bird from him....

 

[ColdH20diving]

primitivepete once bubbled

I sense that you think I am making up the name? [/QUOTE]


No, just that I wouldn't recognize one if if swam by me. Will have to look it up so I'll know what I'm looking for.