Aww thank you!

I'm glad you enjoyed it... I worked quite long and hard on it, trying to find tricks that were suitable and hopefully a bit different, as well as some beautiful treats scattered in the minefield 😀

It's like a sentient sock

Is it fluffy on the top as opposed to being slimey?

Don't get too excited, it may turn out to be crap, but fingers crossed!

A lot of nudis seem to be cannibals, I don't know whether this is from preference or accidentally hoovering up the much smaller ones, probably worth investigating

Also the man o wars definitely need a post of their own, I love how some sea creatures look like individuals but are giant colonies... then again we have slime molds terrestrially and us humans, and we're a bit like a giant colony of bacteria wearing a person trench coat

I'm glad to have learned a bit about your favourite nudi, they're stunning creatures in every way (btw I have a special nudi post for Halloween, something fun and not very serious) 😀

Beautifully written, much better than my attempt to describe the camouflage from the different viewpoints, thank you! 👍

...and stingy! 😈

I think lemmy needs some nudibranch emojis

Mantis eyes would be great, especially if they could pop out on stalks!

I wish my eyes could stand having water drops (or eye drops in general) in them..... I can't open my eyes underwater or in the shower, it's deeply unpleasant.

Maybe I need to evolve compound eyes? Ideally something iridescent for the bling factor

Dammit! That's a much better title....why didn't I come up with that?

You're welcome, also do checkout the other underwater photos he has, they're full of beautiful things 👍

Lol, I left a lot of photos out too!

The sex lives of hermaphrodites is really interesting to read up on, I'll probably do something similar on !invertebrates@mander.xyz....there's loads of freaky creatures out there

Part 2 is going to be eggs, larvae and mini-nudis, but I'm off on holiday soon so maybe a 2 week or more wait, unless it rains a lot

No probs, it gives me an excuse to scroll through flickr 👍

Reverse cowboy and side saddle

....and on top of fornicating nudis, anything goes under the sea!

Yep, it's probably why they were only discovered (relatively) recently and good photos are hard to find, unlike their bigger relations....Having said that I didn't realise they'd be that tiny!

Cockchafer is a totally safe google, I don't know how it would show without 'safe' or 'moderate' though

Cockchafer.....

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Some more photos.....

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Costasiella kuroshimae by Michaels Bubbles

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Costasiella sp.4 photo by Randi Ang

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Costasiella sp. by Thomas Vignaud

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Group of Costasiella kuroshimae by divemecressi

Whoops! You're right, I'll edit it 👍

I like ball armadillo! I was quite amazed by the amount of different names they have when I was reading up