Flora and Fauna Topics

Sydney - Blue Ringed Octopus

Hi guys, I'm just a snorkeller in Sydney i do alot of my diving around botany. I'm really keen on seeing a blue ringed octopus. Can anyone make a recommendation or where i would most likely ...

Posted by johnL Added: 23 Jul 2010, 2:41 am GMT 1 comment Reply added: 29 Nov 2010, 9:15 am

Thin, blue fish in S.A.

I was out snorkeling at Pt Noarlunga today and came across this guy. No idea what the hell he is. It doesnt show up much in the photo but it was bascily glowing neon blue in places. ...

Posted by NickE Added: 17 Nov 2009, 10:13 pm GMT 1 comment Reply added: 25 Oct 2010, 5:52 pm

unknown egg cluster on SA reef..?

I went for a snorkel on Port Noarlunga reef yesterday (just South of Adelaide) and tooks some nice photos in the ambient light. One of the subjects I wasn't familiar with, I'm guessing it's eggs of...

Posted by danimations Added: 11 Sep 2009, 11:26 pm GMT 2 comments Last reply added: 12 Sep 2009, 2:19 pm

help identify shark Manly

Hi all, I was doing some snorkeling at the fairy bower between Manly and Shelly beach and saw a group of 5 sharks, all around I'd say 80cm long. They swim close to the bottom and the ...

Posted by GaetanG Added: 28 Jan 2008, 12:19 pm GMT 1 comment Reply added: 29 Mar 2008, 8:00 am

online visual fish directory???

I dived the Tanalooma wrecks this morn near Brisbane and was baffled by a strange fish several of them in fact. They were rather long, white with diagonal brown and yellow stripes and the backs of ...

Posted by TabithaH Added: 20 May 2007, 6:55 am GMT 3 comments Last reply added: 15 Apr 2009, 3:39 pm

WHAT THE??

Sydney has excellent dive sites? one night at Parsley Bay ? an inside the harbour location we saw something strange. The creatures were long green tentacles, with flattened ends that seemed to have su...

Posted by DM Rob Added: 23 Mar 2005, 4:20 am GMT 4 comments Last reply added: 23 Feb 2006, 1:35 pm

Whiskered Weedies

I've posted a not so good photo of a weedie with 'whiskers'. I'd never seen one before and hadn't seen one since...Till the day after I posted this shot. We saw another 'whiskered' weedie at S...

Posted by Kath Added: 14 Feb 2005, 8:01 pm GMT 3 comments Last reply added: 23 Dec 2007, 4:29 pm

Pineapple fish- light organ

Also known as the knight fish, (Cleidopus gloriamaris) is an attractive temperate water species. It can effectively live in aquaria for many years. The light organ under each jaw has b...

Posted by Ákos Lumnitzer Added: 23 Jan 2005, 8:57 pm GMT No comments yet

So ...where are we going??

Too late... for far too long....we are allowing many to purge the oceans! Actually...not quite true! Our coastlines have a problem...urbanization. Human beings need a place to habit...

Posted by Trurina Cook Added: 31 Jul 2004, 5:06 am GMT No comments yet

snapping shrimps

Hi folks I am taxonomist at the National Natural History Museum in Paris, France, and the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. I am searching for pictures of Australian snapping shri...

Posted by Art Added: 14 Oct 2003, 10:20 pm GMT 1 comment Reply added: 14 Apr 2004, 9:18 am

can u identify me

hi ho i shot this little guy when i was in the solomons a week ago . do u know what he is called , he is very small as u can see buy the size of the coral sand next to him . click on t...

Posted by jugglematt Added: 18 Sep 2003, 10:32 pm GMT No comments yet

Peter Zagol's biscuit star

Hi Peter, I am not a real knowledgable fellow regarding seastars, all I could comment is that your one (Pentagonaster duebeni) was/is probably feeding on the coral polyps. Most seastars are pre...

Posted by Ákos Lumnitzer Added: 12 Sep 2003, 3:52 am GMT No comments yet

Sea Spiders.

I actually 'bumped into' a sea spider diving at Julian Rocks (in between the Cod Hole and the Cray Cave) a few weeks ago - im assuming it was a sea spider anyhow! I was swimming along minding my own b...

Posted by Rowena Added: 10 Sep 2003, 3:27 am GMT 3 comments Last reply added: 23 Sep 2003, 10:59 pm

Mystery eggcase

When I went diving earlier this year (beginning of May) me and my buddy found this egg case: ...

Posted by Wandy Hochgrebe Added: 04 Sep 2003, 6:57 pm GMT 2 comments Last reply added: 18 Dec 2003, 4:21 am

Topics 1-14 of 14