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[JCnflies]

Your gallery is great!

 

[EMBRYOGUY]

2nd that. great gallery pics. the lionfish is just amazing.

 

[iamwhatiam52]

Are sunpolyps (Tubastreae) common here? About 40 years ago I found a colony over an inch across on a jetty in Coney Island. Seems too big to have grown in a single season, so it must have survived a winter or two.

It was bright orange, attached to the underside of a rock about 3 feet below the surface at low tide.

Back then I used to catch lots of spotfin butterflies and the occasional four eye snorkeling around the jetties, so this is nothing new.

 

[billsreef]

There is a relative here, Astrangea danae, aka Northern Star Coral. The polyps are generally clear/whitish in color with a white skeleton, though I have on occasion seen brown polyps.

 

[iamwhatiam52]

Have not seen those, but I have not snorkeled in long Island for the last 40 years. This one was orange as can be, and looked just like the ones in Florida and the Caribbean.

 

[ghcpa9]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10161101#post10161101 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fishome25
I'm diving a few times a week. as soon as I start seeing some tropicals I'll let you know.

few times a week at ponquogue? wow nice, love diving there

 

[fishome25]

ok here are some in tank pics, if the water is clear this weekend maybe i'll get some dive shots.

caught this with a speargun, not a net

 

[fishome25]

a few from last year

 

[cb747]

Sweet Tom! Thanks for posting the pics

 

[fishome25]

from today

 

[cb747]

Looks good Tom!
What kind of tang is that in your first batch of pictures? In the second batch what is the fish above the butterfly?

 

[cb747]

I may hit the Rockaways next weekend hopefully

 

[fishome25]

the tang is a doctorfish. above the butterfly in the dive pictures are cunner a local wrasse i believe.

 

[cb747]

Cool thanks Tom. I thought the wrasse looking fish was a wrasse LOL