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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Dec 4, 11     Comments Off

Good evening friends, how was the weekend?? Mine was kind of weird again due to more rain and being trapped inside for two days! Saturday morning was a bust for trail work or walking as it started pouring at 8:30 and immediately turned our hood into what looked like a bunch of small versions of the Amazon river! Rain, rain, rain, geez, it’s either dry as a bone here or wet as wet gets, there is no in-between when it comes to Curacao weather. So since I trapped inside on Saturday I started to work on a new funky driftwood table that will be given away to some friends as a “house warming” present. I spent a good part of the day working on it and in the end only was able to get the top finished, I still need to do the legs. This morning (Sunday) it was raining when we left the house but I swore no matter what we were going to do some trail work. The dogs faithfully followed but I am sure hated every second of it, I mean really who likes walking in the mud and rain?? I or we stayed out in the poring rain for almost two hours this morning cutting trails, not fun but it had to be done! I put up an umbrella in-between two small trees and the dogs just stood under it watching me cut, that would have made a great photo! To say we were soaked to the bone would be a very accurate description of this mornings activities, I have never seen the dogs happier to see the car! After a nice warm shower for all of us, I went into work and did a dive with my boss Dutch who needed me to photograph another very rare deep water fish. This new fish was found at 520 feet and it’s called a Robins-eye (have no idea how to correctly spell it) but from what he told me there has never been one brought to the surface alive and only a few have ever been found. I will send you the photo so you can see for yourself just how crazy beautiful this thing is!! That’s my weekend in a nutshell, we did start to get some Christmas decorations put up but have a long ways to go!
 
Here is a super funny photo of a Smooth Trunkfish, Lactophrys triqueter digging a hole to China! These fish are so much fun to watch and just have so much personality! They use those big lips to blow air under the sand and uncover crustaceans, mollusks and worms. This one was on a mission!! I have never seen a trunkfish dig a hole this deep with his whole head under the sand, he must have found something that he wasn’t leaving without! I watched this for around 15 minutes and he could have cared less about me or my dumb camera, he just kept digging away!!
 
Have a great day back to work tomorrow, please keep in touch with us, we feel like we are losing some of you!! Bye now, Barry
Nov 30, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends. We sure had a lot of excitement around the shop yesterday all surrounding this Guinness Book of World Record event which in the end was a big success. Bruce shot video while I took photos, I followed the sub down to 135 feet and did my photo shoot and after crazy Bruce kept following them to, are you sitting down, 200 feet! Ok, Bruce is a Master Diver who used to specialize in deep water diving but 200 feet on air?? Man , that’s deep, you won’t catch me doing that! Apparently the sub went down and landed on a sandy patch at 250 feet and they did a whole radio broadcast from there. During this hour Curacao got hit with one of the biggest tropical downpours ever! This meant it was hard to hear the folks down on the sub because it was all being relayed thru the boat on top, our boat captain Rob came back completely soaked! Within 10 minutes after the downpour the ocean turned as brown as brown gets from all the mud, sand and dirt running into the sea and stayed that way the rest of the day!
 
At 6:00 we had a surprise Birthday party for my buddy Gordy with around 30 people, it was great! We all hid at Augusto’s restaurant and when he came over we started singing Happy Birthday which was followed by a lot of kisses from the ladies and lots of bad jokes from the guys! When I first came to Curacao I was equipped with all this high tec Ikelite underwater equipment but really didn’t have a clue how to use it, thank God for Gordy! He immediately took me under his wing and showed me the way and teaching me not only how to get the camera in the housing but what setting to use for underwater, let me tell you if it wasn’t for the G-Man as I call him I would have been lost. Gordy has a beautiful book available here on Curacao called “Our Coral Reef” which is filled with page after page of beautiful underwater images and if you ask nice he will sign if for you.
 
Here is the Queen of the Caribbean reef once again in all her colorful glory! This Queen Angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris can reach a maximum size of about 18 inches, that’s a pretty good sized fish! Angelfish swim so gracefully and are easily recognized. All Angelfish have a spine that extends from the rear cheek over the lower gill cover which conclusively distinguishes Angelfishes from Butterflyfishes. Like most sightings I usually end up chasing them down or following them until I run out of air, they are very clever when it comes to losing their prey or knowing where to hide from pesky photographers.
 
Off to the sea, I am doing two sub dives this morning, then a bike ride at 5:00 and a night dive at 7:30. will be a full day! Have a great one, Barry
Nov 23, 11     Comments Off

Good morning from the Curacao Rainforest! Yes, we woke to sound of another “out of the blue” tropical downpour which started at around 3:30 in the morning! One thing is for sure, the island is green and the little tree frogs think they are in heaven! Every time it rains I have to go outside and pick up land snails that crawl out of the brush and cover our walkways and driveway, we hate to step on them! Yesterday was absolutely beautiful with no rain in sight and at 5:00 Stijn and I went for our Tuesday ride! We were about 10 minutes into the ride when I rode over a hidden broken bottle and a sharp stick both at the same time leaving me with one major flat tire that liquid latex could not repair! I told Superboy to go on without me and I began the long walk back home! You folks would be amazed at far one can pedal in ten minutes and how far that is to walk!
 
For those of you asking, we are going to Augusto’s for Thanksgiving dinner, it’s about the only place on the island that caters to American holidays (that we know of). Augusto’s is located next to the Sea Aquarium so we really don’t have far to go and he does a pretty great job of putting together a traditional meal with all the fixins!
 
Here is a sweet little thing for you all today, this is a young or intermediate Queen Angelfish, Holacanthus ciliaris. In the years I have been here I honestly have not seen or gotten that many photos of these beautiful fish as they prefer deeper depths and are scared of their own shadows. If these fish see a diver they usually will disappear under the reef until you pass over, you won’t even know they were there. The best luck I have had was finding one and following it into their hiding spot as you see here and just wait for them to come out, that’s how I got this shot! Talk about cute little fish faces!!
 
I need to go make some coffee and get moving, have a wonderful day all! Cheers, Barry
Nov 21, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends and followers how was your weekend?? Apparently many of you were locked in snow storms this weekend but from the photos you sent made the most out of it! We had a weekend of rain again!! Saturday Stijn showed up at my house early and we took off for three hours cutting overgrown brush on the Calabash trail and then five minutes after getting home, it started to rain and didn’t stop much all day! We did manage to get out and do an hour and a half ride but with the mud it wasn’t so great. Yesterday was about the same, we took off with picks and rakes and redesigned a steep dirt climb on the power line road and made a new jump but seconds after returning to the car it started to rain again and didn’t stop! So here in Curacao it was a weekend inside.  
 
Here is something we occasionally see that is still considered a mystery to many researchers. This is a group of Foureye Butterflyfish, Chaetodon capistratus but in a large group or aggregation out on the reef in the middle of the night? Don’t these fish know they should be sleeping? Aimee and I have seen groups of 20-30 of these fish at night and almost every time they are found around a big gorgonian and seem completely unafraid of divers. It’s obviously some kind of mating behavior but they always seem to just be swimming around and not really doing anything. If anyone out there has any other ideas on this behavior please let me know and I will update the photo.
 
Sorry I don’t have more for you all today, it was a semi-quiet weekend around here. Good luck with your Monday, I will be photographing new deep water fish today. Barry
Nov 15, 11     Comments Off

Good afternoon friends, here is another super rare, deep water fish called a Golden Basslet, Liopropoma aberrans. This is one of those quintessential rare reef fish that up to now, only existed in bad, fuzzy photos that were taken thru the dome of some deep-water submersible. Now, thanks to Substation Curacao, www.substation-curacao.com  a submersible-caught specimen has come into extremely clear focus which really shows what makes this deepwater basslet stand out from the wrasse bass, cave bass and candy basslet of the Caribean Sea.

Liopropoma aberrans has been one of the deepwater Caribbean fish that has been known about for many years, it occurs from Curacao to North Carolina, but since it lives at extreme depths (400-500 feet) it was always just barely out of reach of Florida and other Atlantic fish collectors. This basslet species has already claimed the life of one fish collector, Eric Reichart, who is believed to have been attacked by sharks while diving off of Pompano Beach while diving to the limits for the elusive Liopropoma aberrans.

The internet is still out at our house so I am posting the blogs online from work, I am still unable to send my mass e-mails at the moment. It’s cloudy again here today, I am praying the rain holds off till tonight as we are doing our weekly mountain bike ride at 5:00, sure would hate to miss that!

That’s it in a nutshell, enjoy the Golden Bass, he is as rare as rare gets and would cost five figures to own one!

Till tomorrow, Barry

 

 

Nov 11, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends, I ended up taking yesterday off with Aimee as it’s looking like we will be busy at Substation all weekend. I have heard we have National Geographic coming in to do something with the sub but unfortunately that’s all I know so far. I met a bunch of friends and a few Pros for a fun mountain bike ride yesterday morning at 7:30 while Aimee took the dogs for a walk to Saint Joris. The ride was fun but not what I had expected as almost all the riders were non-mountain bikers, they race in triatlalons or solely on road bikes so this was a major eye opening experience for some of them. Our new buddy Gabriel who races for Specialized (road bikes) in Uruguay found this to be a very challenging morning but by the end of the ride was starting to get the hang of it. Gabriel has legs the size of tree trunks and definitely has the power but in mountain biking it’s more about technique. I told him it’s a good thing we are not on the road or I would never see him again, and he answered, “then we are even”! Aimee and I met at 9:00 and went all around Curacao looking for a new watch for her, something that is very hard to find here. We ended up finding something that will work but I am sure we will be getting something online and having it brought down in December with friends. At 5:00 Stijn showed up and we took off on the fastest mountain bike ride him and I have done together to date! This kid was on fire last night, the second we left my house he was in sprint mode, no warming up, just go, go, go!! It’s easy to see why this kid is going to win every race he enters, he is fast! He is in the process of buying a new 29er from Specialized and I will be buying his old bike to give to Aimee to use, hers is about worn out! So it was a busy fun day and the weather turned out to be real nice, finally no rain!
 
Here is another very deep, very rare fish called a Banded Basslet, Lipogramma evides that was found at around 400 feet off the coast of Curacao! This is another fish that is so rare and lives so deep that there is very little info known about it and almost no photos can be found on the internet. It lives at depths in excess of 300’ and is found on small areas of coral rubble on sandy plateaus adjacent to steep coral reef walls. Evides is a shy and cryptic species. It is often found in pairs or small, same-species groups of 3-5 individuals. It is distinguished by three dark bands, hence the common name. This little sweetheart is less than an inch in length and is as cute as fish can be, you really have to see it to believe it. I am glad so may of you out there are enjoying these deep-water specimens, it’s for sure a major treat for all of us to get to see one!
 
I need to get my tired self moving, have a wonderful weekend!! Barry
Nov 9, 11     Comments Off

Good evening folks, many thanks for all the compliments on the photos again, we received a lot of “thumbs up” compliments for the Frank and Andy shot that was posted today. Many of you asked about “how to do the black and white/color trick” and it’s really the easiest “fun thing” you can do with PhotoShop. Open any color photo in PhotoShop, go to Image, scroll down to Adjustments, then move over to the next list and find Black and White or Desaturate and click on it. Now your photo is or should be in black and white. Now go to your “floating Palette” on the left and look for an icon with a brush and find one called “History Brush Tool” and click on it. Now start painting. Wherever you click the color will come back from the original photo. You can change your brush sizes with the two keys on your keyboard that look like this {{{{ }}}} the left one makes your brush smaller and the right makes it bigger. If you make a mistake and want to go back, just open your ”History” palette which can be found under Window (at the top) or just use Ctrl-Z (Windows) or Apple Icon-Z (Mac). it’s easy and fun, just drop a line if you need help.
 
Well once again you lucky boys and girls get to see another fish from the deep and this one is mighty rare! This beautiful five inch fish is called a Spanish Flag, Gonioplectrus hispanus and is one of those very rare deepwater reef fish that is so uncommonly seen or collected that very few pictures of it even exist. This little sweetheart was found at around 450 feet!! It’s gets it’s name from the colorful red flag of Spain, thus the name Spanish Flag. These fish are in the snapper family and like snappers eat small crustaceans, fish, urchins, and really just about anything that moves! And again I ask, why are fish that live in the dark so colorful??
 
I did two sub dives today and hopefully some of you got to watch us on the underwater camera. Lots to do this evening and I have a big bike ride at 7:30 in the morning!! Have a wonderful evening, Barry
Nov 8, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends, here is a semi-deep water fish that you divers could see if your paying attention. This is called a Swiss Guard and it’s about three inches in length. The Swiss Guard Basslet (Liopropoma rubre, also known as the Peppermint Bass) is an uncommon basslet species that lives in deeper Atlantic reef areas. They have alternating maroon, pink, and yellowish horizontal stripes from the snout to the tail. The tail, dorsal and anal fins are tipped in black and white. Most Liopropoma basses are found on deep reefs, although some can be found in shallower waters as well. As is common with lower light or deeper water fish, most are some variation of red, yellow, and/or orange. Though the maximum sizes vary with species, the behavior remains consistent, relative to their size. These basses are territorial and will remain close to their “home rock”, cave or ledge, venturing out only for food and defense. Their diet consists of all kinds of little shrimps, crabs and newborn fish and eat continuously throughout the day. Every evening at dusk, just before the sun sets they will leave the safety of their homes to find a possible mate. Once found they will court and then spawn usually high above a coral head and if you blink you will miss it. Years ago I was lucky enough to see this courting behavior myself and did get some photos but to this date I have never found another. These beautiful fish are not really considered rare they just live deep in the reef, having a flashlight might prove to be your best tool for finding one.  
 
Most of the famous cyclist have gone back home, we were unable to find Frank and Andy again yesterday as we needed a few last minute autographs. A few of you sent me requests a bit too late and there was no way I could get them signed but they will be back for sure next year!

Off to the sea, we do have a sub dive today at 3:15 our time, which means it will be 4:15 or time before it is live. I think we are about three hours ahead of South Dakota.

Have a wonderful day, Barry

Nov 2, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends, here is our newest find and current resident of the Curacao Sea Aquarium. This is believed to be some kind of new Dragonet species. He is three inches long and was found at around 550 feet with the new mini-sub laying in the sand.  Dragonets are small, perciform, marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek kallis, “beautiful” and onyma, “name”). Found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific, the family contains approximately 186 species in 18 genera. The Draconettidae may be considered a sister family, whose members are very much alike, though rarely seen. Due to similarities in morphology and behavior, dragonets are sometimes confused with members of the goby family. These “little dragons” are generally highly colorful with cryptic patterns. Their bodies are elongated and scale-less; a strong spine guards the preopercle (part of the gill cover), which has been reported to be venomous in some species. All fins are large, showy and elongated; the first high dorsal fin usually has four spines; in males, the first of these spines may be further adorned with filamentous extensions. Dragonets have flattened, triangular heads with large mouths and eyes; their tail fins are fan-shaped and tapered.

The largest species, the longtail dragonet (Callionymus gardineri) reaches a length of 30 centimeters (12 in). At the other end of the scale, the Saint Helena dragonet (Callionymus sanctaehelenae) reaches a length of just 2 centimeters (0.79 in). Many species exhibit marked sexual dimorphism, males and females are colored and patterned differently, and (in addition to the spine filament) males have a much higher dorsal fin. This theme is taken to extremes in the high-finned dragonet (Synchiropus rameus).

Dragonets are benthic animals, spending most of their time on or near the bottom. They prefer sandy or rocky substrates, sometimes near reefs. Inhabiting depths down to about 200 meters, dragonets feed mostly on crustaceans, worms and other small invertebrates rooted out from the substrate. The dragonet’s large pectoral fins serve as a primary means of propulsion. Males are highly territorial between themselves.
 
That’s the news for today, I need to get ready to go. I think I will be underwater with the sub at 12:15ish if your around a computer, the link again, www.seesubmarine.com
 
Have a great day, Barry
Oct 23, 11     Comments Off

Good evening friends, here is something super crazy for you tonight. This is another tiny, three quarters of an inch scorpionfish that was found at 400 feet with the new Substation mini-sub. As we were photographing him he attacked something in the sand and ate it or so we thought. Seconds after eating, he coughed up this tiny little crab and rather than running away the crab jumped onto the face of the scorpionfish and hooked it’s little claws under the lip of his mouth!! This is what we call, “your food fighting back”!!!! The little crab was like a cowboy riding a bull, talk about brave! The little scorpionfish tried and tried to get that thing off it’s face but nothing seemed to work so finally we had to help. We grabbed a little net and caught the scorpionfish and then used a pair of tweezers to gently pull the crab off, the scorpionfish then went back to his home and the crab was put in with others of his kind and both are now doing great!
 
We are having quite the stormy weekend!! It been off and on rain and the wind is still blowing from the wrong direction. The ocean is a complete stirred up mess as the waves are still coming in from the South West. Because of this backwards tidal movement all the beaches in Curacao are currently being washed away or re-arranged! The beach where we collect glass is almost unrecognizable, the big waves over the past 3 days have completely taken the sand away and either moved it down to a new area or pulled it out to sea. Storms like this are very hard on the corals in the shallows not to mention all the little things as well. Today on one beach I used a bucket to pick up live urchins and shells that had been tossed ashore last night but were still alive. I took them all to a safer area and dumped them back into the sea where they had a bit of protection from the waves.
 
During the break in the rain this morning, I took the dogs and we drove to Caracas Bay to place a new Geocache at the castle. I had just received a note saying the cache was broken and we needed to fix it. After placing the new container I took the dogs to the muddy desert for an hour walk which turned out to be a sweat-a-thon, man was it ever humid! After that walk I drove them back to the beach and we all went for a swim, that was pretty much my Sunday.
 
Have yourself a wonderful Monday, talk to you again soon, Barry
Oct 20, 11     Comments Off

Good evening readers, here is one of the hands down most beautiful fish in the Caribbean and sadly no diver will ever get to see it!! This colorful beauty is called a Candy Basslet, Liopropoma carmabi and lives at around 225 feet!! This is considered a Sea Bass in the Serranidae family and only grows to be about two inches in length! As you can see, these mini sea bass are boldly marked with stripes generally in shades of light brown to red-brown or yellow-brown alternating with red to maroon but stripes may be occasionally yellow to lavender or even blue as you see here!! They typically inhabit deep coral reefs and rubble slopes and are very reclusive and will remain hidden inside recesses until danger passes.
 
This morning we woke to pouring rain and went outside and watched as a river quickly formed alongside the house. I watched as a little frog tried to jump from our back porch over the river but ended up landing right in the middle of it and got swept away but seconds later I saw him hop out to safety! After work I did a fast hour and a half road ride on the mountain bike as everything was still muddy, it was mostly boring but at least I got a ride in.
 
Not much else going on, be back tomorrow, Barry
Oct 19, 11     Comments Off

Hey guys, here is another funny fish face for you all this evening. A friend saw this photo today and asked if I had discovered a new species of fish and I responded yes, it’s the rare “Bucktoothed Beaverfish”! But of course I’m just kidding, this is a large Queen Parrotfish, Scarus vetula but boy does it ever look like it belongs in the Beaver family! The parrotfish feeds on algae and coral from coral reefs, and is one of the main causes of sand production from coral reefs. Its teeth are fused together to form a beak-like edge to the jaws for scraping at the coral, and it also has large flat-topped grinding teeth at the back of its throat for crushing the coral and algal mixture. The indigestible sand is then excreted. When younger in their “initial phase” these fish are almost completely brown with a big fat white stripe down their side, only with age do they start turning these beautiful colors!
 
I spent the day photographing new fish species from the deep and as soon as I get some kind of a name to go with the fish I will send them out to you. Not much else going on, I hope all is well out there!
 
Off to bed, be back tomorrow, Barry
Oct 18, 11     Comments Off

Good evening friends, here is a super cool photo I got just a few hours ago. This is a male and female Creole Wrasse, Clepticus parrae doing a beautiful courting ritual that was followed by actual spawning. I had gone out this evening at 5:00 to check on some possible brittle-stars mating but instead came upon this event and stayed for the whole show. Spawning occurs year-round in mid to late afternoon but, although frequent, does not happen every day. There seems to be no territory defense or streaking, but larger males regularly and aggressively displace smaller males attempting to solicit a mate. A population’s courtship, often lasting for hours, tends to occur in waves of ten to twenty fish that pair off at random locations within customary spawning areas. The show begins with males shadowing the smaller females from above, while the females cut and dive erratically in an attempt to lose their single-minded suitors. During these prolonged chases (as you see here) that can last for 15 minutes, the males intensify colors, extend their white mouth membranes into pronounced puckers and spread their dorsal and anal fins. These pairs are so preoccupied that they regularly rocket past divers without notice. Once in the throes of passion, males become so determined to spawn that they may attempt to mate with juveniles or even with other species as I saw tonight! (I watched in disbelief as one male tried hard to mate with a parrotfish, and I have the photos to prove it!) When finally ready to comply, the females swim to the bottom and slow their pace, allowing the males to position beneath them. With the backs of their heads, the males begin to push their partners towards the surface. At this point the females often have a change of heart and attempt to flee forcing the males to scramble wildly to maintain position. When errant females are pacified, the males press their snouts against the listing females, flared gill covers and, with rapidly beating tails, slowly push their mates upward for several feet before the females release their eggs. The males immediately move thru the cloud, releasing sperm before setting out to court new partners.
 
Coral spawning last night was a total bust for Aimee and I, we didn’t see anything! We did end up putting our cameras down on the sand last night at 10:30 and cleaned up hundreds of yards of thick fishing line and lures that was wrapped around all the coral, it was such a mess! The good news is after we got out one of the coral researchers saw a colony of grooved brain coral spawning and was nice enough to bring me some bundles to photograph. These bundles were much larger and easier to shoot then the smaller star coral ones we did last month, I will send you a new photo soon.
 
I am super tired, it’s off to bed, Barry
Oct 14, 11     Comments Off

Good morning earthlings, it’s Friday!! Remember yesterday morning I wrote how beautiful the morning was and I thought I smelled rain, well at around 9:00 it poured!! Let me tell you that even shocked me because the sky was clear when I went to work, this storm came out of nowhere and we ended up getting a whole lot of rain in a very short amount of time! I did one dive with the sub at 11:15 yesterday and the water was super clear and the sea was very calm. Many times here during a hard rain the ocean becomes very still and afterwards looks like a giant lake, last night it was as calm as calm gets!
 
Stijn showed up at 5:00 last night for a bike ride and as we headed out to the trails we ran into a dog eating something in the grass in front of our house. When the dog looked up and saw us it took off in fear like most wild dogs do here and ran right out into traffic without looking! To our horror he was immediately run over by a little blue mini-van but somehow managed to quickly get up and run off??? Stijn and I just stared at each other asking if that really just happened?? The dog was completely run over and seemed to be unaffected after? We couldn’t find it anywhere, we are thinking it went into our little housing community but there was no sign of him anywhere. We told a group of local girls to help look as well but our knowledge it wasn’t found. Talk about weird, I sure hope he is alright or if he had a home I pray the owners look at him? I will keep looking.
 
Here is a big beautiful French Angelfish, Pomacanthus paru that lives out in front of the Substation, I see him and his or her mate almost every day. These fish can grow to be around 18 inches in length and can be found anywhere on the reef in 15-80 feet of water. Unlike the Queen Angelfish who are afraid of their own shadows these French Angels are as curious as they come! Most times if I am photographing something they will usually come over in a pair and slowly swim around me in circles, they are so beautiful!
 
I have two sub dives today one again at 12:15 and one at 4:15, have a great day, Barry
Oct 8, 11     Comments Off

Good morning friends, here is yet another “first” for you and me! This is a tiny, three quarter inch adult Scorpionfish that was carefully brought up from 600 feet weeks ago and is now in his new home at the Curacao Sea Aquarium. Because he was found so deep he must be kept in the same temperature of water he was found in which is around 65 degrees. This is an unknown species but look how his dorsal spines (on the back) that hold the poison look just like the ones we have here in the shallows. Many of us have wondered if this fish is more toxic than the larger ones but none of us really want to find out that bad. And again, look how beautiful he or she is, I again ask “why are fish so brightly colored at such deep depths”?? I mean it’s dark as dark gets down there! You would think they would be drab and boring looking but it seems the deeper you go the more brightly colored they are. While photographing this one our local fish handler/expert from the States named Joe, poured in some live shrimps and before those things hit the bottom he was eating them! So if you thinking, “these fish must be so stressed” you can forget that, they all seem to be right at home and are doing great!
 
I was up early this morning at 5:00am, I wanted to get this out fast and then get the dogs out for a long walk before it got to hot. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, remember no blogs on Saturday, it’s my one day off! Take care, Barry
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