JEWEL ANEMONES FLOURESCING AT NIGHT
Recently collected these jewels...a new colormorph for me...they are Pink / Orange in daylight and Blue / Green at night under blue LED's....will post the daylight shot next.
Youtube short video of the new jewel anemones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0ODlqGjZrU&list=UUJ5_IYsE7TsyooAjfvZLbFA&index=1&feature=plcp
Just posted this on Youtube..some new specimens gathered recently whilst snorkeling ..macro- movie showing the necessarily strong current in the tank.
TRACKING THE TANK day to night transition with NEW URL.
The previous youtube clip has been blocked as they are paranoid about copyright....here's the new clip with some "out of copyright" music added.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvTsYtGDDKM
TRACKING THE TANK
Here's a Youtube video of a track along my 8 foot temperate marine tank,with a day to night transition.
youtbe.com/watch?v=AjnCmd07MXE
Some different temperate marine tank inhabitants.
Here's a few shots showing the diversity in my jewel anemone temperate marine tank...fretsaw weed growing naturally on the tips of an old fan coral,a yellow / green encrusting sponge and a red tube worm.
You're correct on the camera change....just used an ordinary Fuji digi-cam for most of my shots over the past couple of years, but recently changed to a Canon DSLR....much better quality on the macro shots.
NEW JEWEL ROCK
Here's a shot of a new jewel anemone rock recently gathered on a dive....weighs a hefty 5 kgs/ 12 lbs, so quite a challenge to get ashore!
It's doing well with polyps extended and feeding...
NEW JEWEL ROCK
Here's a shot of a new jewel anemone rock recently gathered on a dive...it weighs 5 kilograms/ 12 lbs....so a challenge to get ashore! It's doing well, with polyps extended and feeding.....
NEW VIDEO FROM COLDMARINE007
Just posted this on youtube....nice relaxing video compilation of my tank inhabitants with great Vangelis track from the movie Blade Runner...looks great on ipod/iphone....check it out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZVNuEgX1z0
I was really lucky to see this happening....just caught a cloud in the water out of the corner of my eye and grabbed my camera asap...missed quite a lot, but at least I managed something. They may have been spawning in the tank regularly....who knows!
This unique spawning of jewel anemones in my temperate marine tank happened at mid-day under reasonably bright lighting, these animals reproduce by dividing and I can find no information on the Web that describes jewels doing this,(their close relatives,the tropical corals do this once a year at...
NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO FROM COLDMARINE
Here's a new youtube vid just downloaded....it's a macro compilation taken over the last couple of days.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6urEmiV7z0