Theme for July 26-Aug1: How small is small?

[alcina]

yup, it's a filefish... i couldn't decide between a fringed filefish and a pygmy filefish myself...
and now you say slender....oh it's hopeless

We call them slender filefish here, too

 

[Gilligan]

 

[SeaYoda]

That's a cutie! It has little spikes on it....what kind of fish is it?

I guessed it was a file fish of some kind - I don't see the adults here and have not seen the juveniles for a while now. May be they were just passing through? Hope they didn't become lunch or something.

 

[justleesa]

I was at the Sea Tiger today and discovered a blackish-green baby frogfish..Cute! I took several pictures of him and he came out too dark, just couldn't get enough light for the details. Tried turning the pictures into B & W, didn't look any better. This last picture is really lightend up a lot, but you can see "my baby" pretty good....:
Original photo

After touch up and cropping:

 

[justleesa]

Jim, what a cool nudi, and a shrimp too! I let someone borrow my Hoover book so I can't look it up...what kind of nudi is it?

 

[justleesa]

I took this picture of a Dorid and then when I looked at It in the computer monitor I saw something attached to It. I still don't now what it Is. Any ideas welcome.

I would also guess schrimp. Excellent find and pic!

 

[justleesa]

Yeah...I thought about that! I've seen photos of a similar shaped/colored shrimp in anemones called a Sun anemone Shrimp.

Here's one that Seafan posted on Scubadiving.com. It looks close to yours.

Love this one!!!

 

[justleesa]

Something from week before last...

Cute lill' buggah. I love the color contrast

 

[justleesa]

Where's an arrowcrab and an urchin, first as taken, then as cropped :

Good job Andy! I didn't even notice it in the first picture. All I could think of was that I wouldn't want to get to close to THAT urchin...lol

 

[alcina]

lisa - looks like you are going to have to open up and really hit him with all the light you can...keep trying and posting these guys...you know I can never have enough frogfish!! Love 'em!!