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Tidepooler

@tidepooler.bsky.social

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Tidepool enthusiast, Staffordshire bull terrier wrangler, and proud owner of a strange sense of humor.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A close up of the front end of the red aldisa has two layered rhinophores - they resemble little horns or antennae. It is orange-red in color and uniformly bumpy.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This red aldisa (Aldisa sanguinea) had the most adorable caboose. It was also over an inch long! #nudibranchs #oregoncoast

Orangish-red sea slug with a bumpy surface resembling an orange peel. It's bum has two flaps and one flap overlaps the other giving it a cute butt. It is sitting on rock covered with various colors of encrustations. The background is blurry.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Got to see my first elegant aeolid (Albronica albronia) and it lived up to its name, what a beauty!

A small, colorful nudibranch with fingerlike extensions from its back. The extensions have multiple colors, bands, and flecks of white so it looks sparkly. It has two rhinophores (look like antennae) and oral tentacles that have white and purple stripes. It is crawling along the surface of a frilly red algae.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I found my first stubby dendronotid (Dendronotus subramosus) while tidepooling last weekend - they are completely adorable and remind me vaguely of tardigrades! #nudibranchs

Small marine invertebrate with antennae-like appendages and frilly extensions from its dorsal surface. Cream color with light spots all over.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

And now Atlas is going to give you a little hit of dopamine

An adorable black bunny with floppy ears looking at the camera

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You can't convince me that the Nanaimo dorid (Acanthodoris nanaimoensis) isn't the closest living relative of the bunny. #nudibranch

Nudibranch with rosy red-tipped rhinophores and gill plume positioned so it resembles and rabbit.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Hammerhead doto (Doto amyra) - not the flashiest nudibranch but small enough that finding them is pretty nice. This one looked to be gravid! 🦑 #nudibranch #oregontidepool

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The white-and-orange-tipped nudibranch (Antiopella fusca) stands out in the tidepools due to its flashy colors. This one was moving with the incoming tide so most of it was blurry, but I love the detail on the rhinophores. #nudibranch 🦑 #oregontidepools

A nudibranch with extensions (cerata) each having a vibrant orange and white tip. The rhinophore (extensions on the anterior end) have fine detail in a layered pattern.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A nudibranch with a white border around each of the extensions on its dorsal surface which move with the tide as the nudibranch clings to a piece of kelp

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Other shots of the beautiful white-lined dirona (Dirona albolineata) in my profile picture. It was about 3 inches long and was perched on some very dark kelp making for a nice photo op. 🦑 #nudibranch

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Staying snug during the cold spell

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This is one of my favorite tide pooling photos, a large ochre sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) with what I think is a tiny ochre sea star (hard for me to tell with the smalls but others can). Nice colors in the background to boot! 🦑

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I did that back when I was in high school and don’t really draw like that now. I cartoon my guinea pig instead! I do have hopes of cartooning some nudibranchs.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The purple shore crab (Hermigraspus nudus) has flashy polka-dotted claws (chelipeds) - this big beauty was on Lone Ranch Beach in Oregon.

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Not a real artist but did an osprey once -not sure why I went the headshot route, like it was auditioning for a role!

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Antiopella fusca (the white-and-orange-tipped or candy corn nudibranch) is always flashy. This little individual had a different look about it. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it may be because the digestive glands (dark line) in each of the cerata (extensions) were very dark. #nudibranch

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Tidepooler @tidepooler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The Nanaimo dorid (Acanthodoris nanaimoensis) looks like a gumdrop covered in sugar, I always love seeing these little nudis!

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