Warm up trip to Tubbataha

[Mike Veitch]

Mike

That’s funny… the soft corals I was talking about are the reds, yellow and purple ones (sharp spikes) were all limp due to the lack of sunlight for the algae in their tissues plus the colors are not as bright as in the daylight and to add less current at night, I have video taped these both at night and day, there is a difference. Hard corals come out at night, the softer tentacles anyway, during the day their tentacles will get nailed by the prowling reef fish.

I guess you spend enough time in the water; you have the right to boze it up. I was talking about the rest of us who gets the usual two week vacation once a year, who have to make the most of their picture taking opportunities.

Not a sunshine thing, more a current issue. Its the current that makes soft corals bloom. I always found night dives the best for coral shots (Dendronephthya sp) In Palau and Fiji they are always blooming at night, during the day they only bloom when the current is running and are sucked up to fist sized when no current.

But i see Wolverine thinks like me!

Oh and to get back on track... Great shots Wolverine! Have fun tonight!

 

[clgsamson]

@wolverine - yeah, get wasted tonight...the PPD boozers will pick you up and tuck you to bed if you can't make it back to your bed

 

[f3nikon]

Not trying to be pushy...

"Apart from using their tentacles to capture food, hard corals also get nutrition from single-celled algae called zooxanthellae (pronounced "zoo-zan-THEL-lee".) Zooxanthellae live inside hard corals. They dine on their hosts' wastes and produce proteins that both hard corals and algae can use as a source of energy. Hard corals cannot survive without zooxanthellae. Soft corals, on the contrary, can do just fine without having such a symbiotic relationship. Hard corals usually feed at night, but soft corals prefer to eat during the day."

http://www.edhelper.com/AnimalReadingComprehension_187_1.html

 

[Mike Veitch]

F3Nikon my friend, not to sound arrogant but lets just say i have a lot of real world experience with it .... about 5000 dives in Soft Coral infested water...

We'll leave it at that and let Wolverines thread get back on track....

 

[f3nikon]

Ok, we'll leave it at that.