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Reef'd Up- just wanted to say that it is great having you here. Love reading all your posts.

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I agree with Adam.

I was curious. That's all. I wasn't blaming you, not at all. I meant no offense. I was just curious about the anemone.
From the two points of view it seems that the anemone has flipped itself over. The mouth/tentacle side is holding on to the rock while the foot is expanded and folded over as though it's trying to move, trying to find another rock opposite from the one it's on. Not that unusual for anemones new to our tanks, but perhaps more unusual for anemones in the wild. I'm sorry if my observation caused any alarm. Please forgive me. Thanks for the pics and Happy New Year.
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Nope, we're good...it's just frustrating arguing over what I saw. This anemone was correctly attached the entire time, and the foot was never visible. This species of anemone has an...almost engorged...oral disc. I saw many of these anemones, and this is how they all looked. Cold water species, of just about everything, can be *much* different than what we see for our aquariums.  The white line you see going across the oral disc in the 2nd pic corresponds to one of the 4 white lines from the 1st pic's oral disc.  The oral disc is segmented into 4, and my best guess is that this helps the anemone take in larger chunks of food than normal anemones.  Cold water critters don't have the abundance of food warmer water critters do, so they have unique survival abilities.
 
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This thread ROCKS!
 
What a great way to spend Thanksgiving.  Thanks for sharing! 
 
Also - feel free to post as many pics as you want ... they are awesome
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Thanks so much!  My hubby was in Afghanistan, and I was new to Utah at Thanksgiving.  The trip gave me a new adventure to get my mind off everything.  Being on a live-aboard was a...different...experience.
 
By day 3 everything was mildew & rotting fish smelling...and had that saltwater slime feel to it. 
 
I didn't get any photos of it (camera battery died), but the next coolest thing to the squid mating was that we came across a massive dolphin migration.  Pretty much as far as your eyes could see were dolphins.
 
I'll double check for photos, but I think these were my best shots.  The rest were just the same things from various angles & camera settings.  Maybe I'll post pics from some other dive trips! 
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I was asked what camera setup I was using, so...
 
Canon S95, Canon underwater housing, and a Sea&Sea YS-01 Strobe:
 
 
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Thanks for the information about that anemone. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.
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