I've been sharing a few images of the fishy "masters of disguise" that I've come across over the years. I haven't shown fish from the Caribbean region yet, so here are a few that I came across a few years back. I haven't had a great many dives in the Caribbean and...
There are few fish with better camouflage than the Scorpaenidae. Slow-moving, bottom-dwelling ambush predators, these fish are masters of disappearing into their surroundings. After publishing my last post, I decided to dig out some pictures of Scorpionfish from the...
Just about my favourite thing (after photographing sharks) is bimbling* around a reef with a macro lens mounted to my camera, looking for small critters. Non-divers are often surprised to learn just how hard it is to find some of the smaller animals. Take this little...
So far this year I have racked up a total of zero hours underwater. Obviously, in the grand scheme of things it isn't really significant, nor that important, given the crises many folk are having to face. However, it's my hobby/work and I am missing it. To that end...
For a few few years I never asked myself this question. Whenever I saw a turtle, if it seemed to have a greenish tint to its carapace I was happy to think of it as a Green and not let it bother me again. The thing is, that's not the answer at all. I later leaned...
I've just completed a post about Lionfish and their status in the Mediterranean and I thought I might look at a few other species of note that have made the journey from the Indo-Pacific region to the shores of Europe and North Africa. When the Med was connected to...
According to a new study, Lionfish are now well-established in the waters around the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. It is only eight years since Lionfish (Pterois miles) were recorded off the coast of Cyprus. Since then, according to research carried out by teams...
Sometimes we regret the road not chosen. Today a large number of people in the reef world regret not spending a bit more time with Bob Fenner, a teacher who was beloved by all his students. Bob just had a knack for drawing you into a conversation, one which could be...
Combers belong to the same group of fish as groupers, the Serranidae, though they reside in a separate genus, Serranus. A group containing around thirty species. As far as I can tell from online sources the combers are not widespread, being most common in the...
I think a lot of people have a particular liking for gobies, there's plenty to choose from with around two thousand or so species. Not only are there plenty of 'em, but they are widely distributed, from cold arctic seas to warm coral-rich waters. For me, one of my...