LOOK what I just found!!! Idk if coral or milk snake, but i didn't touch! Whoa, first time I've seen one just out and about!

Wonder if that's a aeginura or atolla the pycnogonid is snacking on? They never strike me as fast enough to catch them, so maybe it found it already dead? How rad would it be to find out they can strike fast like say a mantis shrimp?! lol
From Schmidt Ocean dive on 2.4.24

Gather around children, cus this is my fave animal carrying its loofah off for a good scrub-a-dub-dub. Or I guess it could be a phronima trying to escape that floof? Kinda looks like an upside down dandelion siphonophore? From Schmidt Ocean dive on 12.11.23

Here's a lovely 'little' stygiomedusa from last year during a Schmidt Ocean dive. You could totally fit that in ur pocket 😋. SOI is cruising, but not diving, which gives me a bad twitch, but I'm hanging in there. Too bad Okeanos isn't diving this year.

At least my breeding pair of blueberry snails are doing great! I'm still not certain on the other 2. From what limited info I could gather, the male has the bent left antenna, & female has 2 straight ones. I love their foot color! They're about 1/3 the size of a mystery snail now

I like to drop in and help out colleague Dr. Chris Tudge American University with their Invertebrate Zoology class! Their Echinoderm Lab of course!

以前採集された三崎産のケヤリムシ科の1種 Sabellidae gen. sp. です。鰓冠が美しい！

I still need to know what this was

Whoa. I didn't know about this fish. Yep, I'm def gonna need to see one of those someday! Still patiently waiting over a decade to see the other one on a dive, which happens to be my 2nd fave ocean critter

Turns out those aren't stretch marks at all. It's just the younger, hotter version of me trying to claw her way out to no avail

Shitty video & still waiting on bottom 1 to show me if it's a male or female. One at top is male. I'm hoping that's my breeding pair who seem to be alive & healthy. Waiting to see if the smaller 2 are alive, but I wouldn't hold ur breath. -Viviparus sp

My blueberry snails arrived! Was cutting bag open, it slipped, & 1 pinged onto the floor 😬, but they all seem to be alive. There was a heat pack in there & it's 80°f here, so that water was WAY 2 hot. Glad they showed up 2 days early! Staying in 5g quarantine tank for a bit

Found a caterpillar & possibly a mulberry tree this morn. Oh! I have a bunny living in my bushes! 1st time in 37yrs that I've seen a rabbit in my yard. It isn't near as scared as I thought it'd be & it has gathered an impressive amount of paper trash for its hidey hole

Not sure if you're aware of Zooniverse The Unknown Explorer but their latest campaign is to get help identifying corals from ROV photos in the Gulf of Mexico zooniverse.org/projects/jorda…

In case u don't know me yet: hi, I'm Lisa, and I have an addiction to phronima. Nope, I don't need help, just more phronima

Thinking about cookie cutter sharks & remembered on a dive when I noticed this gnarly wound. That would be like if you bit a little nibble off a chicken as it walked by

Idk what shark that us, but I like it

They've essentially made it illegal in TX, LA, & MS to protest b/c who the fuck is gonna take on that liability?! If even 1 protestor gets a traffic violation, the organizer is liable. You'll care i day, long after there ain't shit u can do about it...
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The Unknown Explorer (福) Jeff Day

The plants at the top of my tank. I don't see them much cus I can't have a fancy open top tank b/c cats, but they're coming along nicely! I got the salvinia minima just a few days ago & it's doing wonderful. My baby shrimps and snails really love the floating plants