Kirk and Ben and I did a dive at Cove 2 last night, where we saw something I'd never seen before, and I've love to know if anybody knows what this was.
Coming around the south end of the cove, back from the Honey Bear, we were swimming right on the edge of the rocks. What we found there was a huge school of extremely tiny (2 to 3 mm) creatures that looked like little translucent teardrops with eyes. They were clearly a school, in that they were together and moved as a group. There were probably thousands of them, in a band stretching several feet. Kirk thought maybe they were baby shiner perch.
Anybody have a clue from that description?
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Well, unless these were larvae, they weren't that. They were much smaller (literally 2 to 3 millimeters) and not elongate. But I don't think they were larvae, because the description is that the larvae "float", and whatever these were, they were very purposeful in their movements, and kept together as a school. But they were really, really tiny.
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We saw some large groups of "baby" Broken Back Shrimp out at Sekiu up in the water column that looked a little like your description...that's all I've got:)LCF wrote:Well, unless these were larvae, they weren't that. They were much smaller (literally 2 to 3 millimeters) and not elongate. But I don't think they were larvae, because the description is that the larvae "float", and whatever these were, they were very purposeful in their movements, and kept together as a school. But they were really, really tiny.