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Hmmm!

Then it can be any eel - japanese, or sand eel or conger or any subspecies I have never seen or heard about.

This one is toooough!
 
Aaah ...

Originally posted by icarus pacific
I don't know but keep cubandiver clear of it before he shoots it. :hmm

sven
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Someone new for Uncle Sven to badger with his customary two-edged remarks disguised as wit ....
 
Anderson,

I personaly never seen cow fish that big. I seen box fish but they are very small like 2". Me no good with non eating species. The pattern on its skin remind me of File Fish.


Abri,
What kind of eel is that ? I seen those white ones looking like ropes on sand but this black one I never seen.
 
Re: Aaah ...

Originally posted by SASpearo


Someone new for Uncle Sven to badger with his customary two-edged remarks disguised as wit ....
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You're still on my list too, Skippy. :t

sven
 
look a fish alive when cuban is in the water! and it's the same as the one above but diffent color! WoW
 

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Cuban , yours looks like a round belly cowfish Lactoria diaphana
Iya the eel in my photo is a snake eel . Still trying to identify it .
 
hi abri

tongue-in-cheek there, eh?
looks like some kind of sea urchin to me...
where from?

...peter
 
Hi Peter , it's a poison claw urchin ; pretty dangerous . Find them in reef rubble around Koh Tao .toxopneustes pileolus
 
poison

abri - I thought you were putting us on!

so - what happens if you get stung
i.e. jam a bodypart against one of these spiny
sweethearts?
I know that most thin-spined urchins have a
mild poison at the tips of their spines
- the parts that break off and fester
inside you - .

Do folks in Thailand/Malaysia eat sea urchins?
( females only if I remember rightly
from my Med years)

thanks !

...peter, www.juprowa.com/kittel
 
Hi Peterk,

I eat sea urchin sometime, only the yellow part cause the Japanese does that too so I follow. We eat raw, sashimi style. The sea urchin is the black type which is common but so little to eat for so much to work on.

We get "spined" accidentaly on these black ones once in a while. This one is nothing. A friend of mine accidental sat on one and he has like 50 spines on his ass. They are little pain and that is all.

One time I accidentaly push my hand on a COT ( Crown Of Thorn ), a starfish type of sea urchin..................this is PAIN. I almost thought my heart will stop pumping. I bleed out immed for 3 minutes and in 5 minutes the pain subside. This is my first hit where I threw my gun and only think of one thing PAIN.

The pain is not bleeding type of pain, it is poison type of deep pain.

COT is known to eat coral reefs, been a problem in some location.

Look like a big starfish like 30 cm long, mostly blueish green with thick short spines of 2-3mm like sea urchin. Don't ever get poked by one.
 
Peter , the poisonclaw urchin has , apart from the sucker - like arms you can see on the photo , other appendages that end in pincerlike claws . These are equipped with venom glands . If they nip through your skin can cause severe pain and local inflammation , this can last up to five days .
Yes , the Thais , like most people hereabouts (Iya included ) pretty much eat anything that moves . Those things that move faster than the Thais can get slowed down with dynamite...:head
BTW , Iya ; the crown of thorns IS a seastar , not an urchin
 
Iya wasnt far off from the target though, since they both ,sea urchins and sea stars are echinodermata sp.
Which is 'spiked skins'.
well like it would matter.

Tuomo
 
Thank u Tuomo, I assumed anything that has spikes are sea urchin gang or something....he he he.

Abri,
Is that a sea cucumber ? Is it trying to shit on the anchor chain ??
I seen sea cucumber excreting that white slimy thing. Certain sea cucumbers are exported for Chinese food, which type I don't know.....quite nice to eat, taste like jely ( semi-hard jelly ).
 
That damn pesky sea cucumber just jizzed on you.. What did you do to make it mad, They only produce that stuff if they are mad or they can also use it to feed I believe. If you piss them off even more they will evicerate themselves. Its amazing that they can survive without guts long enough to reproduce them.......
 
Exactomundo ,Aquiles , this sea cucumber ; stichopus variegatus got bumped by the moving anchor and showed it's displeasure by releasing the threads , which are apparently evil tasting/smelling to deter would - be predators. As you mentioned some can completely evicerate themselves with same result and then regenerate their guts . There are also species that play host to pearlfish , which hide inside their unmentionables during the day and come out to feed at night . To pass the tedium of waiting for nightfall these fish nibble on the cucumber's gonads ...
 
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