Water temperatures in Puget Sound range from a high of about 13C to a low of about 6C ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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Here's mine.. It's a rare breed. :D
http://www.wolfpack764.com/myspace/seahorse.jpg
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
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.
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.
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. ;)Quote:
hippocampus ponyensis
GREAT photo Allison!
Ponysony!!!! Roflmao!!!