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Mosiac Boxer Crab. Size of a quarter, clutches little anemones in its claws to catch food. The
anemones get enough too.
Porcelain Crab in anemone.
Decorator Crab, 3/4 inch covered with little living anemones. They get a ride, the crab gets
camouflage.
Orangutan crab. Another decorator crab, It covers itself with brown algae. This is a big one--an
inch wide. Same coloring as the Orangutan great ape, found in Borneo and Sumatra.
Soft Coral Crab in soft coral. If you look closely, it has attached little toupees of soft coral to
itself. Half inch maybe.
Bruce's Hinge-Beak shrimp. And no, I don't know who Bruce is.
Bruce's Hinge-Beak shrimp.
Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp. These are awful to photograph. They live on long, thin (15 feet)
corals that move in the current. They are less than 1/2 inch long and they dart up, down and
behind the coral. Best I have ever had!
Harlequin Shrimp. These can get big, four inches. This was not one of them, maybe half inch.
The "claws" are more like chisels and they feed on sea stars like the one it is on. The sea stars
can regenerate the eaten limbs.
Peacock Tail Anemone Shrimp
Ocellated Tozeuma Shrimp on stinging hydroid.
Magnificent Anemone Shrimp
Probable Freckled Shrimpgoby with unknown shrimp. They live together, the shrimp excavates
and cleans the burrow, the goby provides the food and alarm system. Hundreds of species,
worldwide, with many different cohabiting shrimp.
Spiny Tiger Shrimp--half inch
Purple Urchin Shrimp. Another photographic nightmare as they live in the sharp spines of sea
urchins. And the spines will point at you when you approach.
Skeleton Shrimp living in hydroid. The "fluff" on it is juvenile skeleton shrimp. About 1/4 inch.
Crinoid Crab, living in crinoid.
Crinoid Shrimp. Many species.
Hairy Squat Lobster. Lives in sponges, maybe 3/4 inch. Not edible.
Elegant Crinoid Squat Lobster, 3/4 inch.
Baba's Crinoid Squat Lobster. Less than half inch.
Baba's Crinoid Squat Lobster
Crinoid fish. Not sure on this one. Less than 1/2 inch.
Crinoid Shrimp. Half inch maybe.
Crinoid Shrimp. Note that all these crinoid dwellers have colors that mimic the host.
Octopus. Small--two inches. Note how it's standing up to look bigger.
Wonderpus. First identified in 2006 and only known in the Indonesian area. This one is six
inches wide.
This looked like a leaf on the sand. Then the leaf moved. And more investigation showed a two
inch octopus using the leaf like an umbrella to cover itself to make it "invisible". Here it is,
walking on the sand, using an arm to hang onto the leaf. It will flip the leaf back over itself as
soon as I stop messing with it.
Octopus, tiny, on the sand.
Octopus, tiny, burying itself in the sand.
Tropical Bobtail Squid. The smallest squid, this one is the size of a thimble.
Bobtail Squid. It's using it's tentacles to "row" itself out of sight into the sand.
Bobtail Squid, almost hidden in the sand.
Flamboyant Cuttlefish--two inches
Broadclub Cuttlefish. They communicate by flashing color changes. That blue look is not a sign
of happiness that I am there.
Ribbon Moray, female. Adult males are blue.
Blackspotted Moray with cleaner shrimp and blue wrasse in mouth.
Yellowmargin Moray with White-banded Cleaner Shrimp.
Yellowmargin Moray with White-banded Cleaner Shrimp.
I tried four times to get this shot with the Blackspotted (and MUCH larger) moray in the preceding
pictures. But this one was on the other side of the cleaning station and was far more
cooperative.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Creatures.
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Indonesia 2. The Bad.
Indonesia 3. The Ugly.
Indonesia 4. Nudibranchs.
Indonesia 5. Critters.
Great White Shark
St Vincent, 2009
Red Sea, Egypt 2009
Galapagos Underwater
Galapagos Land
Machias Seal Island, Maine. June 2010 and May 2019
St Kitts and Saba, August 2010
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Fish.
Philippines, Puerto Galera January 2011 Creatures
Fiji, May 2011. Beqa Reefs
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Fish.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Behaviors and critters.
Bali, Indonesia 2012. Nudibranchs.
Blue Heron Bridge, Riviera Beach, Florida.
North Sulawesi 2013. Pipefish and Seahorses
North Sulawesi 2013. Fish
North Sulawesi 2013. Mostly Nudibranchs
North Sulawesi 2013. Crabs and Critters
North Sulawesi 2013. Cuttlefish and Octopus
Blue Heron Bridge, May 2013
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014 and 2019 daytime
Komodo, Indonesia. August 2014, night dives
Philippines, Dumaguete 2015 Fish
Philippines Dumaguete 2015, Creatures and Critters
Dominica 2015 and 2017. Before Hurricane Maria
Raja Ampat, January 2016
Cayman Islands, October 2016
North Sulawesi 2017. Fish
North Sulawesi 2017, Creatures
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Fish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Eels, Pipefish
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Crabs, shrimp, octopus.
Anilao, Philippines 2017. Nudibranchs.
Triton Bay, Indonesia. 2018
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Fish and Creatures.
Villa Markisa, Tulamben. Bali, 2018. Nudibranchs.
Solomon Islands, April 2019
Siladen Resort. Siladen Island, Indonesia 2020
Coral Triangle. Things with stings.
Coral Triangle. Frogfish.
Coral Triangle. Crabs & Shrimp.
Coral Triangle. Cuttlefish, Octopi and Squid.
Coral Triangle Butterfly and Angelfish
Belize, October 2021.