A picture of some fish underwater

Snorkeling at A'a Island, Vava'u island group

Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Belichtung 0,025 sec (1/40)

Blende f/2.5

Brennweite 50 mm

ISO-Empfindlichkeit 800

Kalk Bay harbour

my mother's fish :)

These are my favourite fishes, love their markings :)

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)

Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)

Family:Embiotocidae (Surfperches)

Genus/ species Cymatogaster aggregata

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Shiner surfperch are small, deep-bodied fish, silvery colored with rows of dark spots on the scales that form vague black stripes on sides crossed by three vertical yellow bars. Males cover their shiny silver and yellow stripes with a darker courtship colors during the summer. Their length is to 20 cm. (8 inches).

DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT Shiners are found from Wrangell, Alaska to Baja California. Within their range, they are a common fish in shallow water around eelgrass beds, piers, pilings and oil platforms, and are also found in calm, shallow waters along the coast. They live in loose schools to depths of 146 m (480 ft). They are also known to enter brackish and fresh waters, and are common in San Francisco Bay.

DIET IN THE WILD Their diet includes small crustaceans, crab larvae, and polychaete worms, as well as planktonic copepods, amphipods, fish eggs, algae and diatoms.

PREDATORS These small fish are preyed upon by other fishes, including kelp bass, sand bass, and halibut as well as by harbor seals. They are caught along almost all shoreline fishing areas, probably the most common fish taken by recreational anglers along the California coast and in estuaries.

REPRODUCTION: Shiner surfperch mate during the summer; young are born the following spring or summer. Fertilization is internal, embryos are nourished internally, and females give birth to about 20 live young. Litter size varies from 4 to 25. Some males are sexually active immediately after their birth. Females grow faster than males. Their live span is at least six to eight years.

Tidepool

References

Ron's Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157626486149324/

Ron's Wordpress : wp.me/p1DZ4b-wj

fishbase

www.fishbase.org/summary/Cymatogaster-aggregata.html

ADW animaldiversity.org/accounts/Mytilus_californianus/

EOL eol.org/pages/1012531/overview

4-1-13, 11-15-15

fish

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)

Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)

Family: Pomacanthidae (Angelfishes)

Genus/species: Holacanthus tricolor

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Like their close relatives the butterflyfishes, they have a deep, laterally compressed body, a single and a unnotched dorsal fin. The most observable difference between the two families is the long spine at the corner of the preopercle common to angelfishes.

H. tricolor has a yellow anterior body with the remaining parts of body black. The caudal fin is entirely yellow.

Maximum length of approximately 12 inches (35 cm)

DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Western Atlantic: Georgia (USA), Bermuda, and northern Gulf of Mexico to Santa Catarina, Brazil among rock jetties, rocky reefs and rich coral areas.

Depth range 3 - 92 m (10-300 ft)

DIET IN THE WILD: Feeds on tunicates, sponges, zoantharians and algae.

REPRODUCTION/DEVELOPMENT: Pair bonding suggests a monogamous relationship. Pairs usually consist of one small and one large fish. They will spawn by slowly rising up in the water column while bringing their bellies close together, and releasing large amounts of eggs and sperm. A female can release anywhere from 25 to 75 thousand eggs each evening. This can total as many as ten million eggs for the duration of the spawning cycle. The eggs are transparent and pelagic, floating in the water column hatching in 15 to 20 hours becoming "pre-larval" angelfish attached to their large yolk sac with no functional fins, no eyes, or gut. After about 48 hours the yolk is absorbed developing into true larvae feeding on plankton. Growth is rapid and 3 to 4 weeks after hatching the fish will reach about 15-20 mm (0.6-0.8in) and will settle on the bottom.

CONSERVATION: IUCN, Least concern

REMARKS: Reports of ciguatera poisoning .

References:

California Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Caribbean reef fishes 2018

Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-1bS

fishbase www.fishbase.org/summary/3610

EOL eol.org/pages/995079/hierarchy_entries/44730320/details

Animal World

animalworld.com/encyclo/marine/angels/RockBeauty.php

Taken on April 10, 2012, 5-15-13, 1-22-14, 1-07-16, 2-11-18

Clown fish at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego

Another shot from the zoo! i took so many photos as it was a super good day. if the glass was cleaner the fish wouldn't be as blury as well.

This fish looks like he doesn't know what's going on in his life.

Something warm on a chilly evening.

13th September 2011

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A beautiful butterfly fish at the Ripley's Aquarium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Fish

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FISH

I Light A Candle To Our Love

In Love Our Problems Disapper

But All In All We Soon Discover

That One And One Is All We Long To Hear

All'round The World

Little Children Being Born To The World

Got To Give Them All We Can 'Til The War Is Won

Then Will The Work Be Done

Help Them To Learn

Songs Of Joy Instead Of Burn, Baby, Burn

Let Us Show Them How To Play The Pipes Of Peace

Play The Pipes Of Peace

youtu.be/NVK_mJrLbmY

Red Mellon Discus fish from my aquarium.

Soft corals from display tank

Kamera Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Belichtung 0,02 sec (1/50)

Blende f/2.5

Brennweite 50 mm

ISO-Empfindlichkeit 250

In Bora Bora

Pazifischer Rotfeuerfisch (Pterois volitans)

2009

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Ripley’s Aquarium, is a 135,000 square-feet incredible family attraction with more than 1.5 million gallons of water with marine and freshwater habitats from around the world. It has North America’s longest underwater viewing tunnel.

Canada’s largest indoor aquarium that has more than 16,000 marine animals and features one of the world’s most extensive jelly fish exhibits.

beautiful fish

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taken from my fish tank

Nikon F5+Fuji Superia X-tra 400

Fish at Jatim Park 2

Catfish going for a snack. In a man-made pool.