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Posted by Max Bottomtime on September 15, 2024 at 09:21:37:

Sometimes, plans fall right into place. Not for me, but sometimes they do. Today was the exception to the rule. Less than two weeks ago, Merry Passage and I had a very unusual discovery on the Five-Mile outfall pipe off El Segundo. Hundreds of Limacia mcdonaldi covered nearly every rock surrounding the big pipe. We went back to see if we could document any mating or egg-laying. The first rock I came to had an individual laying eggs. Merry found a rock with a mating pair and three egg coils. We spent seventy minutes taking way too many photos. We headed to the Elevated Pipe for a second dive, but there wasn't as much life as there was when the sponges were there. I did see the smallest Garibaldi ever. Visibility was poor at each site, but the upper thirty feet over the Big Pipe was the bluest water we've seen in years.


Limacia mcdonaldi


Mating Acanthodoris lutea laying eggs


Euphrosine hortensis


Savalia lucifica Zoanthid Anemone


Pleuronichthys coenosus, C-O Sole


Crassedoma giganteum, Rock scallop


Hermissenda opalescens


Cuthona divae


Aglaophenia struthionides, Ostrich plumed hydroid



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