TONIGHT AT REDONDO (NOV 5 )

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:20 pm

Navigator and I had a nice dive at Redondo tonight. Viz was about 20 fsw and no current to speak of. Please check out the pics on my page and if someone can id the egg mass in pics 13 and 14 I'd appreciate it.

Jan K · Post by **Jan K** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:35 pm

I see a tunicate at #12 & 13, am I looking at wrong set?

Seth T. · Post by **Seth T.** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:36 pm

Doesn't look like an egg sack to me either.

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:43 pm

I just assumed it was an egg sack. Tunicate was my second guess. We saw two of them. Both on the rock wall by the vw.

Cera · Post by **Cera** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:51 pm

nice ratfish photos!

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:54 pm

Thanks, Cera! He ( or she) was a big one who swam right up on my light during our safety stop.

Navigator · Post by **Navigator** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:29 pm

Great pictures Ron.

Here some of mine...

My best picture of the Grunt so far...
More pictures at flickr.com

<a href="" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2301/188 ... 763d_b.jpg" width="1024" height="509" alt="grunt"></a>

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:32 pm

Nice clear pic of the Grunt, Navigator!

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:32 pm

Nice shot, Dennis. My grunt pics looked like crap!

Navigator · Post by **Navigator** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:50 pm

Don't sell yourself short Ron...

You had some awesome shots on previous dives.
I've seen your pictures.

This one I was just lucky to get that damn autofocus in the right object.

coachrenz · Post by **coachrenz** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:14 pm

cardiver wrote:Thanks, Cera! He ( or she) was a big one who swam right up on my light during our safety stop.

Not a good angle to tell if it is a he or a she, but, I would lean towards a she.

Ratfish are easy to sex. The males not only have the tell-tell claspers (finger-like projections) back by the anal fin, but they also have an appendage on their foreheads called a tenaculum. The forehead appendage will actual become "erect" (kind of flips up) when the males are excited.

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TONIGHT AT REDONDO (NOV 5 )

TONIGHT AT REDONDO (NOV 5 )

Redondo dive.