more than usual, 11 mauve stingers (pelagia noctiluca) and some other stuff that i am not sure what it is, but probably not jellyfish related.
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it was a nice day to swim. the water was calm and clear. no real current, no wind. i was actually surprised to see so many mauve stingers, since i had seen none the day before.
the major difference today and the past couple of days was that there was a significant increase of this tiny, transparent pink stuff, with tiny pink dots. they are about 1/2 a centimeter, more or less, in diameter individually. they usually come singly, small bunches and in strings. there was also a noticible thermal layer, at the surface, and in the top meter it was a light cloudy white. not sure if it was related, but it seemed where there was one there was the other. i figuring some kind of spawning or something but i have no idea as to where to start searching to identify it on the internet. any ideas?
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i may have answered my own
i may have answered my own question... a coral spawning?
That does sound like coral
That does sound like coral spawning, but... in the Med? May be from some other Anthozoan?
If you upload a photo, we could put the question out on the Facebook page too.
there are two
In reply to That does sound like coral by jellywatch
there are two possibilities... red gorgonian (gorgone rouge) and red coral (corail rouge) are native to this area according to a guide for the local sea life.
no under water camera at this time. would be pretty hard though... they are small and semi-transparent. hard enough with a normal macro above water... ;)