Nudibranch Lovers

[T.C.]

Nice- what's that second one? I saw a similar one at St. Andrew's park in Panama City Beach and haven't been able to ID it.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

while not technically a nudi, it is in the Sea Slug's of the Caribbean book.. Aplysia parula, saw about a dozen! Lots of "not fighting" going on!

hard to see, but there is a nudi in there.. just very shy!

 

[jboneng]

Two Flabellina Nobilis eating an hydriod.

A Limacia clavigera

Flabellina lineata

Flabellina verrucosa

Unknown species, probably a juvenile Flabellina verrucosa among nudibranch eggs,

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Nudi porn ... you can almost hear moans of ecstasy ... I half expected to see them lighting up cigarettes when they were done ...

... love is definitely in the air ... er, water ... on this dive ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Got2Go]

Spanish Shawl (flabellina iodinea)

 

[MaxBottomtime]

We got a little excited last weekend. Merry found a large Thordisa rubescens on Golf Ball Reef in Palos Verdes California. It was only the fifth documented sighting of the specie and the first in Palos Verdes since its discovery here in 1981.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Merry's write up on Slug Site!
Opisthobranch of the Week is Thordisa rubescens

 

[dberry]

First off, thanks to everyone for posting these amazing and beautiful pics. Other than the photos of the gi-normous Dendronotus iris a while back, there's rarely any indication of scale. So I'm curious... is there a "typical" size range of most of these critters? 1/2 - 1"? Smaller? Just how powerful are the lenses you are using?
Thanks!
-Don

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Some of the ones I have posted are nearly microscopic. I use a 60mm and sometimes a 105mm with a +10 diopter.
This one was closer to three inches long. Much easier to shoot.

Peltodoris mullineri

 

[Searcaigh]

is there a "typical" size range of most of these critters? 1/2 - 1"? Smaller? Just how powerful are the lenses you are using?

I work in mm, many of the nudis I come across are around 10-20mm although I tend not to spot the smaller ones I rely on my buddies to do so and point them out with a stick and keep it there until I focus on the stick and follow it!

Generally using a 60mm lens but also use 85mm (which fits in the same port that I use for the 60) and when really in serious nudi territory I also use the 105mm lens along with +10 wet diopter