Category Archives: critters

Fouled

Posted on January 28, 2010 by andrew

The other yacht owners at the marina are always worried about ‘fouling’ — the water here is warm and fertile and thick growths of kelp appear on every submerged surface.  A few days ago my next-door neighbor Fred was in … Continue reading →

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Misc.

Posted on December 26, 2009 by andrew

I just dug my camera out of the glove-box of my scooter and there were some photos on it from the fall that I never got around to posting First of all, Spiders love my life-jacket.  I keep a life … Continue reading →

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Birch Aquarium

Posted on April 7, 2009 by andrew

I’m in Southern California for work this week. The aquarium at Scripps is doing some kind of Easter-related promotion.  In the entryway there was a table with trays of various underwater eggs, including these hilariously-shaped shark eggs.  (The table has … Continue reading →

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does it speaketh of the trinity?

Posted on February 19, 2009 by andrew

Ok, here’s how this works: First, the veligers (that’s the planktonic larvae of a mollusk, in this case, an abalone) putter around in the water for a week, eating nothing and looking for a good place to land.  Then they … Continue reading →

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Seahorse farm

Posted on February 17, 2009 by andrew

This afternoon my mom and I visited the ‘Ocean Rider’ seahorse farm.  It’s a family operation which is developing domesticated varieties of seahorses which are suited for captivity — previously most pet seahorses were wild-caught, extremely finicky, and died promptly … Continue reading →

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creepy-crawlies

Posted on February 15, 2009 by andrew

My camera can no longer zoom, but the macro lense seems to still be working fine.  I’m uploading fullsized versions of most of these photos with thumbnails in case anyone wants to see individual lizard-scales or bug-veins. Someone at the … Continue reading →

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St. Clements

Posted on December 13, 2008 by andrew

I just took these three photos with the same lighting against the same background.  The first is of an imported (presumed wild-caught) orange shrimp.  The third photo is a grey offspring of one of the imported adults, raised in freshwater, … Continue reading →

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1.012

Posted on August 10, 2008 by andrew

I’d given up on all the test tanks other than the one with sg 1.008.  Today, though, I found post-larvae living and growing in two other tanks — 1.016, and the one between (presumably about 1.012.)   This suggests that … Continue reading →

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f1

Posted on August 10, 2008 by andrew

  For a couple of months I’ve been hoping that the offspring of the orange shrimp would color in as they reached maturity.  They’re about half-grown now, and they’re all still shades of brown and clear. For comparison, here’s a … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile…

Posted on June 16, 2008 by andrew

A couple of days ago I collected a few hundred zoes from this ‘Christmas shrimp’: I’m pretty sure that this is the same kind that was sold in Singapore as ‘ninja.’ It definitely does the ninja color-changing thing… the pictured … Continue reading →

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