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allisonfinch
06-13-2007, 06:51 PM
:D

Let's have some fun. Everyone post some of their seahorse pictures. Here's one of mine;

This guy was found in Lembeh at 98 feet. By the time I found him, I had seconds before deco. Oh well....what's a deco stop between friends.

Sarah
06-13-2007, 10:16 PM
Allison, try nitrox!

But great photo! Now, if only I had some seahorse shots......

Any more seahorse photos from other members here?

allisonfinch
06-13-2007, 11:14 PM
:confused:

Since when does the magic gas nitrox keep you from having to do deco when you overstay your welcome at depth?


Hmm...while I'm here, I'll post another seahorse or two.

Zero
06-14-2007, 08:57 AM
Hows this one?
http://www.scubamagazine.net/photo/data/500/medium/matt_Weedy.jpg

Only digitized image ive got and its a close cousin.

Matt

allisonfinch
06-16-2007, 04:09 AM
:D

Nice!! Like the big eyeball.

So, what is it? Seadragon? Pipefish? Inquiring minds want to know.....

Zero
06-16-2007, 06:46 AM
Weedy Seadragon at half life size. 70mm from side to side on that shot.

Matt

allisonfinch
06-18-2007, 06:14 PM
:(

Nice!!

I've always wanted to see one of those but it requires something I don't have...a tolerance for COLD water.....BRRRRRR!!!!;) (see, blue)

GirlDiver
06-21-2007, 08:36 PM
Ok...I have seahorse envy. I live in the COLD water where the seahorses are just like you Allison...they don't like cold water. :)

I think I need some tropical time....

Zero
06-22-2007, 07:29 AM
Ok what do we call cold? Mine was taken in about 19 degree water (no i dont know how much that is in F cant even spell it) and although they arent as glamourous as their spotty cousins we get a few common ones in Sydney. Temp goes from about 22-24 down to about 13-14C.

Matt

Grateful Diver
07-02-2007, 10:15 PM
Ok...I have seahorse envy. I live in the COLD water where the seahorses are just like you Allison...they don't like cold water. :)

I think I need some tropical time....
Oh, but Cindy, you and I have a cold water cousin here ... the bay pipefish is related to the sea horse. I took this picture down at our local mudhole ... Redondo ...

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m257/NWGratefulDiver/P1010020-1.jpg

Here's one from my last trip to Bonaire ...

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m257/NWGratefulDiver/B06-008.jpg

Grateful Diver
07-02-2007, 10:17 PM
Ok what do we call cold? Mine was taken in about 19 degree water (no i dont know how much that is in F cant even spell it) and although they arent as glamourous as their spotty cousins we get a few common ones in Sydney. Temp goes from about 22-24 down to about 13-14C.

Matt
Water temperatures in Puget Sound range from a high of about 13C to a low of about 6C ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

dalehall
07-07-2007, 12:29 AM
Here's mine.. It's a rare breed. :D
http://www.wolfpack764.com/myspace/seahorse.jpg

acelockco
07-07-2007, 01:16 AM
THANK YOU dalehall!

That is the best sea horse I have ever seen in my life!

I can't stop laughing and I had to show my wife, now she won't stop laughing.

It reminds me of the Atlantic City Steel Pier Diving Horse, do you know about that one?:D :D :D :D

allisonfinch
07-07-2007, 03:27 AM
This is a JUVENILE hippocampus bargibanti pygmy. If you think the adults are small..... When the guide found it, it took forever to find it too. I was really lucky to get this. In all my time diving the pacific, I have never seen a juvenile before.

allisonfinch
07-07-2007, 03:31 AM
And, heck, I forgot that pipefish are related. I found this couple in Lembeh busily fertilizing eggs. Evidently, unlike the seahorse, with ornates the female broods the eggs by clasping the ventral fins together forming a brood pouch. Every now and then, as the fertilizing was being performed, you could catch glimpses of the eggs through the gap in the fins.

allisonfinch
07-07-2007, 03:34 AM
Here's mine.. It's a rare breed. :D
http://www.wolfpack764.com/myspace/seahorse.jpg

:D
LOLOL!!!!
I've always wanted to see the elusive hippocampus ponyensis! Way cool!

Grateful Diver
07-07-2007, 12:03 PM
And, heck, I forgot that pipefish are related. I found this couple in Lembeh busily fertilizing eggs. Evidently, unlike the seahorse, with ornates the female broods the eggs by clasping the ventral fins together forming a brood pouch. Every now and then, as the fertilizing was being performed, you could catch glimpses of the eggs through the gap in the fins.
I'll be visiting that area next March ... I hope to see half of the stuff you're showing us in these pictures ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Sarah
07-07-2007, 12:19 PM
hippocampus ponyensis

ponyensis, lol.....In Hong Kong they dont' call it the Hong Kong flu, but in France, the quoted seahorse's scientific name is H ponysoni whereas in Japan, the scientific name is Hippocampus ponysony. ;)

GREAT photo Allison!

allisonfinch
07-07-2007, 08:27 PM
Ponysony!!!! Roflmao!!!