Sea worm, jellyfish, what is it??

karlaq · July 09, 2009, 14:25:45 CET

We were bottom fishing around 4 miles out from the qawra/bahar ic caghaq area when we came across this bizarre creature... two of them actually both in different areas but nearby. It was able to swim pretty fast and it was feeding on the shrimp we were throwing into the sea. Can anyone recognise it?

LapsiBoy · July 09, 2009, 14:52:54 CET

Looks like a type of jellyfish.

clutch_kick · July 09, 2009, 15:01:56 CET

I do not think those are jelly fish eggs LapsiBoy. On what evidence are you basing your claim? A quick search on wikipedia shows nothing close to that when it comes to eggs, look ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schleiden-meduse-2.jpg

To me that looks more like a colony of organisms, but then again I am not a marine biologist, probably E-Fisher might be able to shed some light on it.

I would like to put in a general suggestion for the forum here. ' Thallatx il-hass mall-Bass' eng trans. ' Don't mix lettuce with farts ' (lol sorry I couldn't resist). This is a forum, a lot of people use this site for reference, misleading information never made anyone any good. So please if you don't know something, don't pretend that you do.

Muchas gracias.

stevea · July 09, 2009, 15:32:38 CET

Personally I think its a string of larvae of some sort... bet its good food for the fish!

LapsiBoy · July 09, 2009, 15:33:01 CET

Clutch Before you said anything I had changed what i said , because i checked

karlaq · July 09, 2009, 15:36:10 CET

We spotted another one yesterday. This one was longer about 4 metres long. We used to go bottom fishing in the same area last year and we never spotted anything like this. clutch_kick, your conclusion does make sense since when we tried to lift the organism out of the water the segments kept breaking off at the point of contact with the hook. Neither I am a marine biologist but I can hypothesize that It is a larvae of some organism.

karlaq · July 09, 2009, 15:42:22 CET

BTW it cannot be a jellyfish since jellyfish are sessile and radially symmetrical.

Granitu · July 09, 2009, 15:50:22 CET

no those are eggs of a fish i forgot the name of

fish-noob · July 09, 2009, 15:52:50 CET

so how was it feeding then

if it was eggs?

LapsiBoy · July 09, 2009, 15:57:58 CET

I said eggs because in november when i went with the nets i caught a ton of them ! they are like jelly with a hard brown (nut shaped) thing inside, when you squeeze them they turn into water. I think they are eggs because we caught a whole load of them in a cluster and there formation is very like larvae.
Fish-noob, fish have many strange charesteristics, maybe these type of eggs eat, after all they are not connected to thei mother.

karlaq · July 09, 2009, 16:00:03 CET

If they were fish eggs there would be much more, they would be attached to a solid surface and theyr too big to be fish eggs.

robby017 · July 09, 2009, 16:04:04 CET

Quotetheyr too big to be fish eggs.

maybe they are of a big fish!!!

karlaq · July 09, 2009, 16:04:56 CET

hmmm not even shark eggs are nearly that big :/

robby017 · July 09, 2009, 16:13:04 CET

sharks don't lay eggs, they are livebeares karlaq.

LapsiBoy · July 09, 2009, 16:19:40 CET

Exactly

Anyway maybe they are not fish eggs, maybe they are eggs of some sort of jelly fish or something like that. I dont know im just telling you what i think.