Friday Night Photos Ichthyology Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 5:00pm

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

On Tuesday the camera club had our monthly outing at Birch Aquarium. We didn't find out until we got there that half the aquarium was closed off due to construction. That was a bummer. On the bright side, February is half off admission to all museums in San Diego so we didn't have to pay full price to see only half the aquarium.

Male Ornate Boxfish
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Yellow Tang
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Red Sea Sailfin Tang
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Seahorse
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Pink Skunk Clownfish
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Wavy Turban Snail
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Bleached Coral
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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 7:54pm
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is inspired by magic mushrooms
so long and thanks for all the fish!

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:29pm
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@QMS
I love Douglas Adams. Hitchhikers guide was a great book and movie, too.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:11pm
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I can’t stop staring at the boxfish. You have so perfectly captured its colours and patterns, which are infinitely interesting. Its eye and its cheek, and the feelers or rudders at the top! Such an amazing looking fish. I think it would make a great character for a children's book.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:36pm
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@janis b
I'm no good at writing, but If you write the book, I'll provide the pictures.

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:13pm
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I hope your weekend is developing nicely.

The sun and the moon in a single flower ...

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:42pm
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@janis b
Looks like the moon is causing a partial eclipse of the sun.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:41pm
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@janis b H iJanis!

Neat pic.

How big was the flower?

They grown big and little ones in this area, for birdseed. Sometimes the fields are those 8' tall types with foot across flowers that are spectacular. Wild birds go nuts after they harvest.

happy pixels!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:49pm
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@dystopian

It was a gift from a friend, from the local florist.

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Submitted by The Liberal Moonbat on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:36pm
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stingray-x-ray_0.jpg

I wish I knew why the image-loader here was so frustratingly slow/unreliable; anyone else have problems with it?

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:51pm
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@The Liberal Moonbat
Fantastic image of the stingray.
I haven't used the image loader in a long time so I can't answer your question. I do know when I used it in the past it was very slow. Hopefully it will improve when the new site is up and running.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 8:58pm
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@The Liberal Moonbat
generally have to down-size to some
vague megabyte threshold for it to
regurgitate

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:09pm
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@The Liberal Moonbat

The X-ray of the stingray is fascinating. The centre looks like a creature from another world, carrying its umbilical cord.

Thanks for the image.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:31pm
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Hi all, Hey SP!

Hope its all good all over out there!

GREAT photos SP! Fish are far out man.

When those Sailfin Tangs open dorsal and anal fins they become twice as tall as they are long. And most spectacular.

The tang under it is a Brown Tang, aka Scopas Tang, Zebrasoma scopas.

Under that for the corals... the central one with trunk and crown is a soft coral, one of the Finger Leather corals, probably Sinularia flexibilis or something somilar. To upper left the metallic neon green one is a stony coral, Elegance coral, genus Catalaphyllia. Then below that and left of the finger leather trunk the green round disks with brown tentacles are Zooanthids of the genus Palythoa, from which highly toxixc palytoxin comes.

Sorry to inform you on Valentine's Day but Congratulations, your seahorse is a male and is pregnant

I have a wavy turban in my shell collection, LOL.

Outstanding photos SP!

Thanks for m and the OT!

happy trails all!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:42pm
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@dystopian

That's the most shocking valentine's day news I've ever heard!

Sorry to inform you on Valentine's Day but Congratulations, your seahorse is a male and is pregnant

Thanks for the valentine's smile ; ).

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:29pm
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@dystopian
the Brown Tang and the coral, dystopian. Unfortunately not all the tanks had info plaques.
A pregnant male? Now that's a horse of a different color.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:37pm
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Hi all,

Thanks SP for the OT!

I just have one junk shot to drop and I gotta fly like the blurry birds in the pic...

There were about a hundred Red-winged Blackbird around a few times this week. They vacuum up white millet seed like an army of Hoovers. I tried to get pics but failed in flying colors. Literally. See?

Flying colors
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They flushed. I liked this anyway. I like the motion, it is what birds do. It's an art shot.

I gotta fly,

happy trials all!

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Submitted by janis b on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 10:47pm
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@dystopian

What a sight that must have been.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:37pm
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@dystopian
I don't consider that a junk shot at all. It's very artistic.
Last Monday while out with the bird watching group we spotted a Baltimore Oriole. Something you don't see very often in SoCal.

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