Nudibranch Lovers

[MaxBottomtime]

I hope so. We had something bad happen all along the west coast of North America in the last two years. Some of the reefs I dive from Southern California to British Columbia, Canada are devoid of life compared to what they were two years ago. One of my local reefs had thousands of nudis as well as juvenile rockfish, fringeheads and octopus. Lately we're lucky to find a dozen nudis and one or two octopus.
In some areas of California the kelp has disappeared. Last summer Catalina Island experienced tropical water temperatures that wiped out kelp in many areas. We haven't had any jellies or salps floating through our water in more than two years. We used to have a soup of jellies in the offshore waters every winter.

 

[Ragz]

Camera: Sealife Micro 2.0 Pro 1500
Location: Watumu, Kenya

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

I hope so. We had something bad happen all along the west coast of North America in the last two years. Some of the reefs I dive from Southern California to British Columbia, Canada are devoid of life compared to what they were two years ago. One of my local reefs had thousands of nudis as well as juvenile rockfish, fringeheads and octopus. Lately we're lucky to find a dozen nudis and one or two octopus.
In some areas of California the kelp has disappeared. Last summer Catalina Island experienced tropical water temperatures that wiped out kelp in many areas. We haven't had any jellies or salps floating through our water in more than two years. We used to have a soup of jellies in the offshore waters every winter.

I have a friend who has told me that we will never see below 40° here in S. Florida again. She is into plants and gardening and stuff. She claims that we are now solidly in Zone 11 (a designation for plants, frost etc.), and the line moves 10 miles north each year. I've always thought we were in Zone 10B. Keys were the only place in the US in Zone 11.
Wonder if it's true.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

A few from this week;

Doriopsilla spaldingi

Cuthona divae

Peltodoris mullineri close up

 

[Ragz]

Camera: Sealife Micro 2.0 Pro 1500
Location: Diani,Kenya

 

[Got2Go]

St. Eustatius

Painted Elysia

Engel's Flabellina

Orange-Spotted Nanuca

 

[MaxBottomtime]

So far this year...

Spanish Shawl, Flabellina iodinia

Flabellina trilineata

Mating pair of Polycera tricolor

Diaulula sandiegensis

Juvenile Polycera atra and friend

Navanax inermis

Cadlina flavomaculata

Hermissenda opalescens

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Merry just got her third, and our fourth overall Nudi of the week on Slugsite. We've managed to find four uncommon nudibranchs mostly by looking extremely close to their food sources.
Opisthobranch of the Week is Noumeaella rubrofasciata
Opisthobranch of the Week is Thordisa rubescens
Opisthobranch of the Week is Abronica abronia
Opisthobranch of the Week is Tenellia flavovulta

 

[chris_the_brit]

Here's a few from Hornby Island (BC) in January:

Flabellina trophina (I think). There were about a dozen of these roaming around on the sand at about 50 fsw. I can't imagine why - surely there's no food for them there?

Acanthodoris nanaimoensis (Nanaimo dorid)

Phyllaplysia taylori (Taylor's sea hare). Very small - a far cry from my local giant California sea hares.

Doris odhneri. About 5 inches long, pure white and a lovely texture too. At last, an easy-to-spot nudi!

My nudi year is off to a good start!

 

[Wisnu]

from our recent trips, padang bai, Bali

PC290830.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

P1010502.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

P1010557.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

P1010530.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

Nudi P Bai by Mayang-24.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

Nudi P Bai by Mayang-26.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

PC280718.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

PC280724.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

PC280733.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

PC290829.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

Nudi P Bai by Mayang-11.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr

Nudi P Bai by Mayang-14.jpg by Wisnu Purwanto, on Flickr