looks like a yellowtail damsel
its a porqupine fish .... puffers dont have all those spines looks like he's smiling, though!
not sure of the species but its in the damselfish family
it's a coris wrasse - will dramatically change colors when it matures
oops - meant scorpionfish and not stonefish sorry for the mis ID
those are fantastic macro images - I never learned to do macro and dont have the right lens - most of my nudibranch shots are out of focus : (
stonefish are just waiting for a meal to swim by - the toxins aren't an offensive weapon - they just don't want to get eaten or stepped on!...
stonefish One of them looked a little like a stony / coral skinned lionfish like this? it's a stonefish and it has basically the same toxins...
I wouldnt think one would be wearing a bra, though sailors must have been at sea a looong time to mistake a dugong for a mermaid! We had...
there was a rumor of a mermaid found in Ginitillan, Cebu last summer and some villagers from liloan took 3 jeepneys to go up there (30 min drive)...
this looks like a cassiopea sp. and is a plankton eater - it wont sting you - typically the ones with the long threadlike tentacles sting and the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH]i see these dudes almost every dive... and lots of blue flatworms, also
its a bit of a swim but can be done - its getting back in thats a problem when conditions arent right - the start of the dive is not too bad, but...
that one stumped me ... at first i was thinking echinoderm but then saw the 6 part and not 5 part radial symmetry - I figured it was in a lesser...
what kind of establishment are you running there earl? a short time motel for nudis? I usually see at least a couple species of nudibranchs...
the website has 33 named streets in duma city limits and where they are - if you can get the names of a couple paved roads in the general area you...
I think the medical care in dumaguete is better than in most of asia - certainly better than korea IMO - if you live in alaska (outside anchorage)...
interesting - are those in captivity or were you lucky enough to chance upon that on a dive? what is more interesting to me are mating marine...
"Yapping about it on a forum doesn't ease the dilemma when it's YOU bouncing along in the back of an ez ride hustling off to Dgte for a medical...
not much on tyhe cebu side - the less expensive resorts have no dive centers- Ocean Terrace, Pebble Cottages.... and all 3 dive centers are...
