carpet in the wild
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That's a haddoni for sure. Man it's humongous!!!
Aside from Percula and Occelaris, I'm not very good at clown ID.
Aside from Percula and Occelaris, I'm not very good at clown ID.
Holy cow that is huge! And gorgeous! The clowns look like clarkiis to me.
skeeter_usaf
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Yep that is defanently a Hadoni with Clarkii's in it. Awesome pic.
criccio
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I'm fairly certain those aren't A. clarkii, they look to be A. polymnus.
burnah, do you remember anything distinctive about the clowns patterns, did they have three or two bars, was the second bar straight up and down or at an angle, was the tail yellow or black (looks yellow on the juvy, and black on the sub-adult)?
burnah, do you remember anything distinctive about the clowns patterns, did they have three or two bars, was the second bar straight up and down or at an angle, was the tail yellow or black (looks yellow on the juvy, and black on the sub-adult)?
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LeLutinBanni
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Picture of the nem...and the nem are crazy !
ok from these pictures they could also be saddleback clowns as they lack the last stripe and have a black tail, at least on the topdown pic. i would say in the very first picture you see a very small (<1cm)juvenile clarkii or a similar species and 2 juvenile a.polymnus with one adult hiding in the far background.
i uploaded more pictures of this anemone as well as some more photos i took of anemones, but these are unedited neither for whitebalance nor cropped or enhanced and also shot with less skill then the above so sorry for the quality.
i spotted a gigantea with clarkiis too?
i uploaded more pictures of this anemone as well as some more photos i took of anemones, but these are unedited neither for whitebalance nor cropped or enhanced and also shot with less skill then the above so sorry for the quality.
i spotted a gigantea with clarkiis too?
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125mph
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took this in bali while diving on pemuteran house reef:
is it a haddoni? what kind of clowns are hosted here and are these cardinal fishes that stay close to it? i saw these small shiny fish in the surroundings of many different anemones...
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Very nice haddoni! How deep is that? Shallow or deep!?!
it was in about 5 meters depth on the righthand side of a reef on a sandy slope. i think also important to mention that beyond its spot the water started to become cloudy from the waves on the beach. it was solitary on the sand bed, although not visible wether buried in the sand or attached to a submersed rock.
quite next to it was the rope of a buoy that showed the start of a reef project where they glued corals to metal cages set under current.
thank you for the ids. the crispas only once touched sand. most were in rather shallow water, max depth 5m and attached to the artificial structures some biologists dumped in the water over there which are used to support the regrowth of the reef. they got lots of light even in the evening hours and lots of water movement
the crispa i labelled as magnifica however was in a deeper part of another reef, you can see the difference in its look, more spread where the others where more compact and upright, these were also the ones that hosted ocellaris.
are you sure about the one with the red verrucae, i thought this was a sign of s.gigantea. was i right about the very huge carpet with the more spaced long tentacles to be a mertensii? i agree on the aurora but what is the anemone with the commensal shrimps, is it a c.adhaesivum?
i find it amazing that all these species live there and yet even one species looks and behaves totally different.
are these all crispas?
(plus aurora)
the crispa i labelled as magnifica however was in a deeper part of another reef, you can see the difference in its look, more spread where the others where more compact and upright, these were also the ones that hosted ocellaris.
are you sure about the one with the red verrucae, i thought this was a sign of s.gigantea. was i right about the very huge carpet with the more spaced long tentacles to be a mertensii? i agree on the aurora but what is the anemone with the commensal shrimps, is it a c.adhaesivum?
i find it amazing that all these species live there and yet even one species looks and behaves totally different.
are these all crispas?
criccio
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entacmea quadricolor with tomatos and clarkiis? or are these sebae? this was a rock completely covered in a tan BTA the size of a sofa:
A. melanopus and A. clarkii. And your additional pics confirmed that those are A. polymnus in the S. haddoni.
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