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Scuba-Doh!
03-02-08, 22:24
Today at St Cat's Reef I spotted my first nudi (well, kind of, I'd seen bigger nudi (such as this example also taken today) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nand/2238877715/) but this was the first little nudi with antennae).
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2081/2238913393_25300b2b59.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nand/2238913393/)
Cadlina laevis
Very nice.
Nudi's are one of those thing that you never see until you see your first, then they notice they are everywhere :D
dive granny
04-02-08, 01:04
Nice pic Mark and thanks for the help in posting my pic:D Cheers D.G.
Mint shot of your first slug. Like Scott says once you spot one they seem to all come out the woodwork. You did a good job getting a decent exposure on the striking coloration of that particular species. It's a tough exposure challenge because it is so bright. They get to be an obsession. You need to stop when the wife catches you practicing slug shots on a wet lawn.:o
I could never understand how a slug that bright could survive being observed and eaten. I was showing a few shots to a brainy biologist. He told me that like all things bright in nature it is to signify that it is poisonous. He told me that that particular species has an interesting defense mechanism in that those yellow dots on the slug's sides are acid packs. If you devoured that little bute you would need more n a few packs of zantac.:eek:
Scuba-Doh!
04-02-08, 13:42
Thanks Scott and Dive Granny.
Mint shot of your first slug. Like Scott says once you spot one they seem to all come out the woodwork.
I certainly hope so, I'd been hoping to see them ever since I saw some photos here of them.
You did a good job getting a decent exposure on the striking coloration of that particular species. It's a tough exposure challenge because it is so bright.
Took me a fair bit of playing with the torch and camera positions to get it right, using the diffuse glow from the torch rather than the hot spot.
They get to be an obsession. You need to stop when the wife catches you practicing slug shots on a wet lawn.:o
My other half doesn't realise that my fishtank photography is really a way of practising and if she gets her apple snails then I'll have a decent nudi stand-in for practice.
For example:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2072/2233383392_c877094685_m.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nand/2233383392/)
My fishtank photos. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nand/sets/72157603641278496/)
I could never understand how a slug that bright could survive being observed and eaten. I was showing a few shots to a brainy biologist. He told me that like all things bright in nature it is to signify that it is poisonous. He told me that that particular species has an interesting defense mechanism in that those yellow dots on the slug's sides are acid packs. If you devoured that little bute you would need more n a few packs of zantac.:eek:
Hadn't thought of that but makes sense, top-side we have the yellow/black stripes to show bees/wasps are dangerous plus any number of brightly coloured plants and insects, makes sense that this translates to underwater life.
Nice fish tank.
I'd love to get another one but I just don't have room in the house. I used to work in a pet shop which had a massive collection of tropical fish. Needless to say I had a pretty impressive collection myself (not all paid for ;) :o)
Always a good place to display some smaller bits of spidge :D
nice tank indeed, i used to keep African rift lake cichlids until they had to make way for a new couch :(
when i moved house it took longer to move the tank than it did to move all the furniture. everyone was impressed by that.;)
one day they will be back, once i get a bigger house that will host 2 couches and a tank :D
dive granny
04-02-08, 16:33
If you devoured that little bute you would need more n a few packs of zantac.:eek:[/QUOTE]
More likely to need Loperimide;)
Suspect someone must have tried one to know they taste acidic. That’s why they call them lemons. Probably someone north of the border;), being as they eat haggis n I think that’s grotty bits boiled in a cow's udder.:eek:
aye, the stingers come from their food (e.g. hyroids in the UK; I think ones abroad may also eat corals but I can't remember). Anyway, they have a specialised gut that doesn't digest the stinging cells and transports them to the gills (I think) where they are used to sting potential predators. I doubt they'd sting people too much if you ate them, but why would you want to? It'd be like slurping a jellyfish!
zan
they have a specialised gut that doesn't digest the stinging cells and transports them
I know a few people like that!
Mr Flibble
04-02-08, 23:32
Damn! I got excited when I read the title of this thread, talk about disappointment :rolleyes: