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01/02/2007, 09:13 PM
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Zoos in Nature
In my hunt for new zoos in the wild a friend and I happened across these. The Photobucket pic doesn’t do them justice.
 They were in an area where there were other zoos shallow. They were about 20+ feet deep and growing flat on the rock. I was snorkeling with a wetsuit, so it was all I could do just to get down to take the picture. |
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01/02/2007, 09:27 PM
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WoW!!!
Those are incredible! Where those shot in Okinawa?
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01/02/2007, 10:01 PM
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Oh, I hop into my private jet and shoot over there for the weekend sometimes...
 I only wish I could go there. My best friend dove there when he was stationed there years ago. Those are so sweet! 
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01/03/2007, 12:40 AM
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wow....... :O
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01/03/2007, 01:29 AM
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Look like envy orange to me. Someone please take the colony out of the wild and ship it to me so I can put it in my tank where it belongs......LOL.
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01/03/2007, 02:42 AM
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Very cool pic. Thanks!
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01/03/2007, 10:51 AM
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Those are sweet.....I need some of those! Thanks for sharing the picture.
Superfishy those in your avatar are hot too....
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01/03/2007, 11:19 AM
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very very nice... they do look orange to me..
thanks for sharing... Marvin |
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01/03/2007, 12:17 PM
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Very, very nice! I assume that you're allowed to collect frags from the wild? If so, it would be very cool if you'd send a few frags over to the US so that we could have nice stuff like you do!
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01/03/2007, 08:31 PM
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I'll get some more pics to share next time out. In a few places on the island the zoos are so thick you wouldn't believe it. You'll go down because you see a cool color and realize there is 10 different colors all around it in a 10ft square area and then you realize that that 10 ft area is actually 100 ft long. I guess you’re really sick when you go to a beautiful coal reef and swim over everything else just to look at the zoos!
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01/03/2007, 08:34 PM
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please post 'in situ' Zoanthid pics to this thread
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01/04/2007, 01:03 PM
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wow. now show us the FTS!
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01/04/2007, 03:38 PM
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Gorgeous! Can you give any details on how close to the surface these guys were? I'm curious as to how much sunlight they get to have such beautiful coloration.
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01/04/2007, 04:34 PM
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notice all the algae in the environment in which they occur
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01/04/2007, 07:00 PM
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Most of them are shallow, less than 5 feet. Some of the bigger colonies are deeper, 10 feet to 15 feet, but I've seen the same colors in 5 feet.
A lot of the zoos I've found are living right on the edge of the reef where the algae growth starts to disappear. Those happen to be located close to a drainage runoff and seem to have more that other locations. |
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