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Post by Dive Bunnie on Nov 9, 2008 6:55:47 GMT
Ok so I think I must be one of the only people recently who has still not seen a frog fish! It seems that now we know what they look like in real life, they are cropping up all over the place. Baby ones have been found in plastic bags that have been floating around the beach dive site (thankfully, the litter collector realised in time to save the little fish from harm). A big one was spotted deep on Thomas reef, but the day I looked for it, I couldn't make it out from the coral on the pinnacle. Now I have seen photos of them, I realise I was probably looking it right in its googly eye, so fantastic is its camoflage! Since then, one has been found and photographed on Paradise reef, and one lives in a fern at around 26M on the Jackson reef garden in Tiran. Neither of which I have been able to find. I have failed.
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Post by Dive Bunnie on May 22, 2009 15:37:40 GMT
So I take it all back... today I found a teeny tiny yellow frogfish tucked up inside the remains of a crisp packet drifting along the dive site known as Ras Um Sid. And he was really cuuute!
Thankfully I checked inside the packet, and found what initially looked like a tiny flake of crisp... but it was swimming, or kind of wobbling around its little plastic hideaway.
I got my student to take a peek and managed to coax it out before I screwed up the bag to take bag to the boat and dispose of properly (plastic is so dangerous to so many marine creatures so I couldn't leave it there). For a while I became the little fellow's shelter with him hanging around my mask for a bit. Hopefully he found a cosy hollow in the reef in which he could grow up safely.
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Post by waterbabe on Jun 28, 2009 9:32:59 GMT
I'm not jealous! No really not jealous at all! You get to see the frog fish, the whale sharks and whatever. I get to see the rain
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