Nudibranchs!
An Opalescent Aeolid, about 2 cm long, and looking a lot like the orande and white tipped dironid.
Of course you noted the lack of white on the tips, and what appears to be 4 rhinophores!
That pale thin extension coming from the bottom left, and that short white extension coming out of the rocks on the lower left
are the sticky feeding tentacles from a cleverly hidden different critter.
A Salmon Gilled Aeolid, also known as a Sea Mouse, about 5cm long, and cruising the hydroid fields, its favourite lunch!
Another Salmon Gille Aeolid, this time showing the 2 Rhinophores more clearly.
An Alabaster Dironid, about 6 cm long, with its head on the right, rhinophores not visible in this picture.
The always beautiful Orange Peel Nudibranch, about 25 cm long, with one rhinophore visible on the right. The white perimeter frill is the gills. One of our larger nudibranchs.
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