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Okay help me with this, one of my photos is of a tiny see fan looking critter. On the surface it looks like tiny cotton balls on the branches. This was about the size of a dime. I took it with the microscope mode on my camera, if you expand or zoom in this is a crazy looking animal! What is it, tel...

New FREE Pacific Northwest e-book to help you identify the various flatfish that are found in our area. Download the pdf at http://www.molamarine.com by clicking on the photo of the C-O sole (and the red Irish lord if you don't have the sculpin book already).
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Sund Friday 27th- awful from 10-50 feet

Speckled sanddabs seem especially into following divers and inspecting the disturbances in the sediment for goodies

Generally speaking, big tides stir things up more. When you have to dive a day with a large exchange, aim for the latter part of the flood as ebbing and low tides are typically poorer. When the vis in central sound goes to crap, head over to Hood Canal. Due to its much milder currents the plankton l...

There are a few scattered ones under the bridge, but the big bed is pretty much straight out from the boat launch

Southern Hood Canal at the Great Bend- layer of awful vis (3-4 ft) from 20-50 ft; fine below that

Acres of adult pens near the Fox Island bridge

Thanks for the heads-up. I'd planned to dive it Monday, because their web site said it opened at the beginning of March.

So far only known from southeastern Alaska to the Bering Sea- though I don't know if anyone has looked for them here yet. Everyone should look through their octo pics and see if they have any.

yep, baby buffalo.

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I'll take four of the AL80's if you still have them
Greg

I guess it would be three- just looking for singles

Wolf eels do have bones- as do the true eels

The reduced last pair of legs in a king crab is a holdover from their hermit crab ancestry, and they are specialized for cleaning the gills and (in the case of the males) for transferring sperm to females when mating. It is likely that females use them to help keep their eggs clean.

derekcs wrote:
Thanks for the info! So if I have it right, it's the first live sighting recorded in Puget Sound ever and the first in all of the Salish Sea in 80+ years?

Yep! just a tad jealous

Should I forward these photos to the aquarium?[/quote] Sure. I've already told the NOAA and UW fish collection people about it. Apparently there was one previous record from the Salish Sea, found west of Sooke BC in 1935, but it didn't get included in the 2015 list that I was looking at. Any way you...

Medusafish (Icichthys lockingtoni) is a better fit, in terms of the characters that I mentioned. As the common name implies, they live in jellyfish.

This would be a new record, not only for Puget Sound but also the Salish Sea

Checking various sources, it doesn't appear to be a prowfish- specifically, they lack a lateral line (which is obvious in the photos) and the scales are wrong. Also the dorsal fin appears to start too far back.

That looks like a baby prowfish- and the behavior certainly matches (hiding in a jelly). Any other pics showing more of the body? That would be a pretty special sighting if it is a prowfish.

they generally swim in spurts, so kind of similar- except they do it using appendages rather than jet propulsion

Last October on a dive at Rosario I recorded Dirona as "abundant" on my REEF form (100+ seen)

I'm with Jan on this- parasitic copepod.

Wolf eels are not legal to take anywhere in Washington.