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Bubble Coral Shrimp. Half inch.
Orang Utang Crab on Bubble Coral. Covered with algae, an inch.
Orang Utang crabs with different algae.
Carry Crab with sea urchin for disguise. Special hind claws adapted to hold preferred disguise.
Carry Crab with Jellyfish for disguise.
Carry Crab with Jellyfish
Porcelain Crab, three quarters inch. Usually live under anemones.
Mosiac Boxer Crab. Carries little stinging anemones in claws as defense.
Mosiac Boxer Crab. Half inch.
Mosiac Boxer Crab with orange eggs.
Hermit Crab inhabiting old shell. Night dive.
Hermit Crab in Murex shell, it's feeding on a sea slug. Night dive.
Hermit Crab, this one has decorated its shell with small anemones as disguise. Night dive.
Soft Coral Crab, less than half inch.
Soft Coral Crab, they attach little soft coral toupees as camouflage.
Soft Coral Crab, thats an egg mass underneath her.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp, four inches. Can cause injury with a front claw strike.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp with eggs.
Tiger Mantis Shrimp, eight inches. Note front spearing claws.
Close up of claws. Dangerous if messed with.
Harlequin Shrimp, feeding on Seastar.
Harlequin Shrimp, inch and a quarter.
Harlequin Shrimp, claws are adapted to chisel shapes to cut up sea stars.
Emperor Shrimp, one inch. They live on other animals, usually sea cucumbers.
Emperor Shrimp on Sea Cucumber. The female is the bigger one. Still pretty small!
Emperor Shrimp on Sea Cucumber.
Female shrimp are usually bigger, they have eggs to carry.
Tiny Emperor Shrimp, maybe quarter inch on Nudibranch.
Transparent Shrimp. Excellent disguise, the Invisible Man of shrimp.
Peacock Tail Shrimp (the tail is colorful).
Peacock Tail Shrimp with eggs. Three quarters of an inch.
Urchin Shrimp, live in certain species of spiny urchins.
Urchin Shrimp, about three quarters of an inch.
Urchin Shrimp. Not easy to get close to with the moving urchin spines that point toward you.
Crinoid Shrimp. The worst to get photos.
Crinoid Shrimp. They live deep in constantly moving crinoids. Half an inch.
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Shrimp. They mimic the color of the crinoid
Crinoid Squat Lobster, half inch. Like the Crinoid Shrimp they mimic colors and are very difficult
to get on.
Crinoid Squat Lobster, half inch.
Crinoid Squat Lobster, half inch.
Crinoid Squat Lobster, half inch.
Spiny Tiger Shrimp. Half Inch.
Algae Shrimp. it's the size of a match head and is jumping around.
Algae Shrimp. One of the hardest shots I ever got. Look close, has eggs.
Zanzibar Whip Coral shrimp. Live on long moving whip corals. The "big" one is under half inch.
Zanzibar Shrimp. They take on the color of the whip corals they live on.
Zanzibar Shrimp. This one is on a yellow whip coral.
This is a Leopard Anemone.
And this is the tiny half inch Leopard Anemone shrimp that lives on it.
Squat Shrimp, quarter inch.
Ocellated Tozeuma Shrimp (has litlle circles on it).
Tozeuma Shrimp. Just over an inch long. Mimicking color of surroundings..
Tozuema Shrimp. Just over an inch long. Mimicking color of surroundings..
Hairy Squat Lobster. Quarter inch, live on barrel sponges.
Fire Urchin, four inches or more wide.
And on the fire urchin live Zebra Crabs. Less than half inch, this one has pink eggs.
Colemans Shrimp. Half inch, the female is the bigger one.
Colemans Shrimp only live on fire urchins.
Interspecies behavior. Bandtail Goby with shrimp.
The shrimp cleans the burrow they both inhabit. The goby acts as lookout and brings food to the
shrimp.
More interspecies behavior. Striped shrimp cleaning a Yellowmargin Moray Eel.
Shrimp is removing parasites and dead skin from the eel. It gets a meal in return.
I was very happy with these behavior shots. It took a while to get them.
Compilation. Crabs, shrimp & critters from
the Coral Triangle.
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Indonesia 1. The Good.
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.