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11-17-2009, 05:44 AM | #1 |
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Ocean cove jellyfish
Anyone know what kind of jellyfish those were? They were all over the place and my son wanted to know if they could sting?
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11-17-2009, 07:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
we called them half moon jellyfish but I have no idea if that is correct. as a kid i used to pick them up all the time and play with them and was never stung. my brother did not report being stung when I threw them at him either.
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11-17-2009, 03:10 PM | #3 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
The clear ones are moon jellies, the dark purple ones are something else. The moon jellies are harmless, but I think the purple guys can sting.
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11-17-2009, 07:59 PM | #4 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
If they are the little purple sailors on the beach, they are Velella's. Related to the Man-O-War. A hydrozoan. Not really a jelly. But close enough. They won't bother you. Is that what you are talking about. They would float on the surface.
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11-17-2009, 08:47 PM | #5 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
Those things were every where this weekend, and about 8"-10" around . Not sure what kind those are, but the only time I've ever been stung by a jelly (or hydrozoan, or whatever else) was diving in the Philippines. It wasn't very fun, believe me.....
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11-17-2009, 08:56 PM | #6 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
We get some nasty brown ones up here in Oregon that can sting.
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11-18-2009, 07:12 PM | #7 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
Like rich said, these were 8-10" and brown and some had up to a couple feet of what would be stinging tentacles on other jellies although most of them seemed to have lost most or all of these "tentacles".
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
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The ones I've seen lately are pretty chewed up and small blue rockfish are going at them. |
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11-19-2009, 07:39 AM | #9 |
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Re: Ocean cove jellyfish
I saw about 3 of the sea nettles that were chewed up real bad but there were a tone of the white half moons in O/C on saturday. I was out at fort ross one time and watched a school of blues shred about 20 of the half moons. each jelly was surrounded by five or six blues which were taking chunks out of them like they were candy.
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