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Trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus, Long Fish
Good morning from the Caribbean!! IF your like me, you just got to work and are just sitting there starring at your computer wondering why your head is spinning and asking yourself, “where did the weekend go”???? It’s like some cruel magic trick, you wait all week for your weekends and then “POOF” they are gone!! I was thinking, we as a human race need to implement a new work strategy, we will all work super hard on the weekends even overtime if needed and then we get the week off, tell me that doesn’t sound better!! My weekend was of course crazy busy again and so much in fact I can hardly remember what I did on Saturday?? Yesterday, Sunday I left the house at 6:30 am on my mountain bike and did a very fast paced two and a half hour ride to the North coast and back, that’s around 35 miles. After that Stijn came over and we found two more different gecko’s in my yard for my “reptiles of Curacao” collection and took them to work to be photographed. After they were photographed we took them all the way back out to the desert and released them in a beautiful spot with lots of old wood. We then met a few friends at Substation and went on a fun reef dive, I spent the whole time just cleaning up the reef and not taking my camera for once. After the dive we worked in my yard getting it cleaned up and finally at 4:30 took the dogs out for a long two hour hike around the salt ponds, talk about a man who was wiped out when I got home!!! So tell me what you all did this weekend for once. Here is a sleek Trumpetfish I found a few days ago and forgot to send it to you all. These fish are everywhere you look here in Curacao! They can be found in electric yellow, blue as you see above and even red, and I am still trying to get all the colors into one photo!! Trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus, are long bodied fish with upturned mouths, that often swim vertically while trying to blend with vertical coral, like sea rods, sea pens, and pipe sponges. Trumpetfish occur in waters between 0.5 and 30 meters (1.6 and appr. 100 feet) deep and can grow to 40 to 80 cm (appr.… More:
Posted in Conservation, Corals, Fish, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged aulostomus, bony fish, camera, caribbean, colors, conservation, curacao, house
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Yellowhead Wrasse, Halichoeres garnoti
Good morning Amigo’s, welcome to your Monday!! Here at Substation Curacao every person that has walked in this morning including myself can’t seem to stop yawning and appears to be wiped out!! That’s the downside to living in the Caribbean, there is soooo much fun stuff to do that you never find time to rest, not even on your days off! My weekend was filled with long mountain bike rides, trail building and diving plus walking the dogs and starting to get our house packed up for our big move to a new apartment next month. My good news of the week is we found a great home for our little puppy!! For those of you who don’t remember my wife brought home a ferrel puppy weeks and weeks ago that she found on the street eating a bird. The puppy had almost no hair, covered in ticks and had a horrible skin disease! Well, to make a long story short she now looks like a million bucks, has beautiful hair and is the most loving puppy ever, amazing what time, medicine and love can do! Her new family arrives tonight and they are very excited, she will be missed! Your photo today is a Yellowhead Wrasse, Halichoeres garnoti and is considered one of the most curious reef fish in Curacao. Almost every dive I do these fish will swim around me in circles acting as if I am going to feed them, they are very curious and can be approched very easily! Their favorite food is brittle stars which I have seen them eating on countless dives but have never been able to get close enough for a good photo. Like Parrotfishes, wrasses go through several changes in color, shape and marking during maturation. The phases include; Juvenile Phase (JP), Initial Phase (IP) and Terminal Phase (TP) as seen above is the largest and most colorful. Some even have additional Intermediate color phases between the three primary phases. IP include sexually mature females and, in some species, immature and mature males. TP are sexually mature males. Some wrasses are hermaphroditic and go through a sex reversal to become TP, while others simply mature, never changing their sex. Identifying wrasses in all their phases can be very difficult. Off to work, have a great day!! Barry/www.coralreefphotos.com
Posted in Conservation, Corals, Fish, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged dogs, halichoeres, house, initial, initial-phase, king, substation, Wrasse
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Mr. Saltwater Tank’s Review of the AquaIlluminations Wireless Controller
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are and continue to be very popular with saltwater tank hobbyists. Between the power savings, range of available colors and seemingly infinite controllability, LEDs are here to stay. AquaIlluminations released their wireless controller in an effort to bridge the gap between hobbyist’s wishes for wireless LED control and what’s available on the market. During my review of the controller, I’ve found it to be wireless with a catch and a big footnote. Tagged as: aquailluminations , fail safe , sol , Sol Nano , Vega , wireless LED controller See the article here: Mr. Saltwater Tank’s Review of the AquaIlluminations Wireless Controller… More:
Posted in Corals, Equipment, Fish, Opinion, Podcast, Tanks, Uncategorized
Tagged Controller, december-15, facebook, fish, house, Lighting, mrsaltwatertank, power, reef enthusiast, tank dabbler, tanks, vivid-aquariums
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MASNA Live Feb 2012 – LSMAC, New BOD, "Tank Bred" panel, & Ret Talbot
February 2012 MASNA Live Show Notes: | Four short interviews with Lake Superior Marine Aquarium Club members Jay Hanson, Mike Doty, Frank Wotruba, and Jim Grassinger. Map of Esko, MN http://goo.gl/6N1u6 | Pictures of LSMAC tanks: http://goo.gl/lzFJF | Introduction of two new MASNA Board of Directors members Amanda Cox and Carl Nelson.
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Posted in Fish, Podcast, Tanks
Tagged cuttlefish, does-tank, Hawaii, house, new-website, raised-mean, talbot, tanks
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