Underwater

mbz

Hi, everybody.
I'm going to continue that thread for a wile. I'd like to share with you my facination with an underwater world.

I was snorkeling by myself. I started not from shore, but from a shop ancored in warm waters of New Guinea. Suddenly I heard a sound, which for a moment frozen blood in my veins. Something huge was approaching me. In few seconds I found myself in a school of jacks. I took few pictures and swam away. Who knows what a big predator they were running away from.

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That picture was taken in Fuji.
I believe everybody has watched "Finding Nemo".
At the picture you can see 2 anemone fishes, or Nemos and their home - anemone.
Anemone catches and kills other fishes, but anemone fishes live safely there. They tried to protect their hose from me. They swam to my mask with a high speed, triyng to skare me away.

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It is Christmas tree sea worms.
They will hide inside a coral, if you get too close

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Beautiful feather star fish

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Colorful live corals.
Corals get their colors from algae that lives on them.

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The next few pictures show cleaning station.
Fishes get many parasites and they mast be cleaned. There are special small fishes, who does the job.
At that picture you can see a fisg being cleaned by 2 small colorful cleaners.

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Now the clener got inside the gil(spelling?)

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It is, where the work could became dangerous. I hope those cleaners have workers comp.

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It is fun to photograph fishes at a cleaning station. They do not care about me and my camera at all

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a big red crab

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That eel could bite

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a snake eel

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an interesting fish

Harryb

Marvelous set of shots. What set-up did you use to get them?

Frog Lady

nice shots! w/ the cleaner wrasses and all, I felt like I was looking through my marine bio text book but, sigh, sure wish I could be there taking those shots myself:uhoh

mbz

hank you, Harry and Colleen

Harryb wrote:

Marvelous set of shots. What set-up did you use to get them?

Harry, I would not call it "set-up". The pictures were taken with a very small 2 mega pixels underwater camera.

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One more shot of a clening station. You see how many fishes got there to get cleaned.

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That small bleany is very shy and will hide in corals, if it sences a danger

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Few shots of sea turtules
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That picture was taken at Bora-Bora. Do you see a shark? I've never seen him while in the water. I saw him only after I printed the picture. If I saw him back then, I would have probably dropped my camera:D

Awais Yaqub

Very beautiful great work thanks for sharing

mbz

Thank you, Awais.

raptorcaptor

Looks like fun! Thanks for sharing the pics with us!

Rachel

Those are absolutely marvelous! I am so jealous!

Dropped the camera, I probably would have died from a heart attack if I had seen that shark while swimming :yikes

mbz

Thank you, Glenn and Rachel.
If somebody does not like to snorkel, he still can enjoy underwater world in tidepools.
Sea anemones come in all colors.

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One more anemone

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That anemone is in process of consuming a jellyfish

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and that one is in process of reproduction. It is going to clone itself. In few days after the picture was taken there were 2 identical anemones insted of just one.

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Anemone are fighting clone war. One of them will leave or die.