My fav local algae.

[Saltliquid]

Have a look at this guys and gals, we found this is in two feet of water walking around in some rock pools. Don't ask where, it's just the extreme beauty of what the ocean can produce that I am showing and something big and beautiful that swam past!
I was looking for my favourite algae, the extreme blue/purple variety and after finding quite a few small sections of it, this turned up.
To some this may not look that nice, but to be fairly incrusted with my fav algae, to me there is near nothing prettier in the ocean
A piece of live rock like this approximately the size of a dinner plate,wow!
It wasn't collected;I already had plenty of my fav algae, you can only take the algae out here, not calcium skeleton.
Oh and a near all white whale with blotchy colour around its face, and with spotted colour on the very top of its dorsel and a near black tail, the rest totally white, swam past and we thought its migalu,spelling?
But this one was only around 15 or so feet long and the one next to it a hell of a lot bigger!
No pics, we were on anchor having lunch when they zoomed past the boat. It looked like white water under the water as it went off into the distance, quite fast as well.
This is my fav.

 

[Kataro]

I've seen similar algae in Europe, very pretty indeed! I wish we can get some to the U.S

 

[Saltliquid]

I have seeded my invert tank with some like last time and hopefully it can cope with my cole tangs.

 

[tektite]

Gorgeous, you are so lucky!

 

[Don Quixote]

I wonder how much it would be to ship

 

[Saltliquid]

We arent allowed to.
A well known guy in marines from the states by the name of Randal was chasing a fish species here that I knew where to find them, to do some DNA work with it and was asking if we could ship two of them, preserving the DNA in patricluar.
We couldn’t send them,so the ichthiologist at our Q museum I know well, set it up once we caught them and it was organised that way.
There are extremely strict guidelines for algae in particluar any way.
Sorry.

 

[Fsarmien]

Yeah thats really pretty!

 

[Don Quixote]

We arent allowed to.
A well known guy in marines from the states by the name of Randal was chasing a fish species here that I knew where to find them, to do some DNA work with it and was asking if we could ship two of them, preserving the DNA in patricluar.
We couldn't send them,so the ichthiologist at our Q museum I know well, set it up once we caught them and it was organised that way.
There are extremely strict guidelines for algae in particluar any way.
Sorry.

Thanks for the info! I knew it was strict but if I'm ever in australia I'll have to look you up :smurf: