hitch hiker ???

Grateful Diver · Post by **Grateful Diver** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:55 pm

Well after being sick all week, I finally got back in the water tonight ... did a nice 68 minute tour of Cove 2 with Ron Sallee. Vis was the best I've seen in a long time ... maybe 25 feet or so, despite a lot of particulates in the water.

I'm putting the photo show here tonight, because I spent a lot of time at the end of the dive with a water jelly ... there was an interesting little hitch hiker attched to his underside.

Anybody know what it is? I don't ...

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/vK9zf2NR

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

sparky · Post by **sparky** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:05 pm

OK Bob that was just way out of this world

just a dumb guess but do you think there is a chance that jelly was haveing little jellies?

I have never seen any thing like that s for sure

Sparky

Sounder · Post by **Sounder** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:46 pm

Weird. "Mommy... where do jellies come from?"

nwscubamom · Post by **nwscubamom** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:35 am

Cool pics, neat music to go with it too.

The first jelly you show, the neat longish one, is called Leuckartiara spp. Supposedly coastal, and only live a month or two.

The other jelly is an Aequorea spp, (Water Jellyfish) and it dines on other species of jellies, so I think it's eaten those other guys.

But I'm not sure which species they are!

Did some reading on reproduction of jellies and they don't appear to 'bud' in this stage - but do release gametes into the water in close proximity to other jellies.

I think this is a case of munching on other jellies. There's a pic in Lamb's book that shows a lot of food inside the Water Jelly pictured there.

VERY cool pics.

- Janna

ArcticDiver · Post by **ArcticDiver** » Sat May 26, 2007 12:07 pm

Very nice Bob.