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CaliforniaMama 07-30-2013 05:01 PM

July 30, 2013 - Underwater Beauty
 
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Lamplighter 07-30-2013 06:22 PM

OK, but what is it ?

My guess #1: a spiro agnew
No, that's a vice president

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My guess #2: a spyro dragon
No, that's a game character

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My guess #3: a spiro nudibranch
No, never heard of that.

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OK, I give up.
What's it called ?

Lamplighter 07-30-2013 06:24 PM

PS. Here's a link to some nice pics of some real nudibranchs

Sundae 07-31-2013 04:58 AM

I haven't clicked the link because I wanted to give an honest but uninformed opinion.
Like pretty much anyone who has a letter published in a newspaper.

I say, if it's that pretty then it's dangerous.
It eats things, or poisons them and then eats them.
Or it lashes out unexpectedly and kills things. And eats them.
Or lays eggs in them. Which hatch and then eat them from the inside.

It's an eaty thing, basically.

ZenGum 07-31-2013 05:15 AM

Those filaments look like they would catch plankton. So I'm guessing some kind of starfishy thingy.

Old Bunyip 08-01-2013 02:54 AM

It looks to me like a costume worn by a dancer in the Mardi Gras Parade in Rio.

CaliforniaMama 08-01-2013 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 871937)
Or lays eggs in them. Which hatch and then eat them from the inside.

Morbid . . . :3_eyes:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 871937)
It's an eaty thing, basically.

Aren't we all? :rolleyes:

Sundae 08-02-2013 04:06 AM

Hey, Cali I loved the photo.
I wouldn't say I'm morbid. I just know nature. Mostly from pictures ;)
And I was right, wasn't I?
Poisonous.

And yes, I am very much an eaty thing :)

Watched a lovely film about responsible farming of piggies yesterday.
As part of a hand-carving training session.
Oh such cute, cute pigs!

Did it stop me carving up a cured chunk of one of them?
Did it hell; one of the reasons I love pigs is that they taste so good. Actually I'm not that big on ham - too salty - but I do love me some pork, and bacon, and sausages, and pork scratchings, and pig racing and on and on and on...

CaliforniaMama 08-02-2013 06:00 PM

:bacon::thumb:

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Originally Posted by Sundae (Post 872137)
pork scratchings, and pig racing and on and on and on...

:confused:

Adak 08-03-2013 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 871940)
Those filaments look like they would catch plankton. So I'm guessing some kind of starfishy thingy.

Starfish don't eat plankton, they eat clams, oysters, etc, They are carnivores.

BigV 08-04-2013 12:55 PM

I think it resembles a sea pen.

Flint 08-04-2013 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Bunyip (Post 872017)
It looks to me like a costume worn by a dancer in the Mardi Gras Parade in Rio.

Nice, I can totally see it. That's some great associative thinking, there.


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