new critters

[jhale]

I was feeling a bit better today so I took a drive up to CT with ellebelle today,

 

[jhale]

 

[jhale]

and the best for last, some white zoas from western Australia growing on a red sponge, super cool!

I'll try to get the latin names for everything in the morning.

 

[noodleman]

those zoas on the sponge is cool, for a min i was thinking gorgonian :flower:

 

[KathyC]

Wow. Very wow!
I hope you bought that last piece!

 

[OctaviousMonk]

Insane!! that last picture looks surreal, almost like a mutated gorgonian on steroids

 

[jhale]

here's the full shot of the zoas,

 

[autoponicz]

wow....that looks awesome..@!!

 

[rookie07]

nice pics J..like eveyone else said...the last 2 pics is amazing....if u didnt buy it...I want it


...the 3rd pic(4 fish) is amazing...and the anemone(just before the sponge w/ zoas) is also awesome. You keep listing better and better pictures(I think these are some of the best ive seen of your pics)

 

[lunner]

I don't know how you do it, but your pictures never fail to mesmerize me.

For me, GA is the best place to look for rare stuff.

 

[bad coffee]

Are those trimma gobies in the first two pics?

B

 

[crox99]

Awsome pics J.

 

[Awibrandy]

Spectaculiar pics J!!! Thank you for sharing!!

 

[pnoyreefer]

Jonathan very nice pics and have to agree that the last one with zoas are amazing.. I wanted to throw my camera after seeing your pics

 

[jhale]

thanks guys, it's just using the camera on manual settings and practice.

Brett I'll get the names of the gobies. they are small but so cool!

 

[ellebelle]

B, the red ones are the trimma gobies. I said that Jon should have put a quarter in for scale because they are TINY. But very cool. Perfect fish for all the people who want nine fish in a nanotank.

Jon and I were betting how many people were going to say they wanted the zoas on the sponge. :lol2: Definitely 100% NON photosynthetic.

 

[Bob 1000]

So did you buy them Or am I leaving for GA this afternoon????

 

[Chongpark27]

:splitspin Spectacular pics jonathan. :biggrin:

 

[Alexpescado]

J. Hale stunning pics. Thanks

 

[GreshamH]

Definitely 100% NON photosynthetic.

yup, and IIRC not even zoas at that JenDub (Jen & Charles) have been having great success with theirs using Arcti-Pods. I know, sounds like a commercial coming from me but it's true I'll try to get some pics while I'm down at the South West Coral Farmers Market this weekend. They live fairly close by so I plan on running over to say hi

FWIW IIRC while talking to Scott Michaels a few years back about trimmas and such he told me they don't live long at all, like ~1 year Short life span.