I get to be a substack video tester, decided to upload a fishy video of never before seen fish behavior. This was taken in the lagoon at St. Leu on Reunion Island on an overcast day. It is two and a half minutes long, but the real action starts around the 1 minute 20 mark. This fish does amazing design things, hard to believe what you are seeing. I originally saw a coronet fish do this on a sunny day, he or she did it in nice pastel colors as the colors on the bottom of the lagoon reflected the rainbow effect. Unfortunately the camera operator malfunctioned and I was not able to capture the video.
I spent the next year and a half swimming in the lagoon about an hour each day trying to see this behavior again. Along the way I captured lots of other interesting clips, like two Snowflake moray eels fighting, an octopus at night on the hunt and convict surgeon fish doing their sex/baby making routine and their color changes while they spawned. The underwater world is quite fascinating, but requires patience to observe. I only went out once at night, was by myself and the creatures at night were nothing like what I saw during the day and one of them made me nervous. (Took photos of that creature and sent it of to the U of Washington and they were able to ID, very rare what they called a worm that only comes out at night once a year to have sex.) That coupled with the thought of my light quitting on me made me a bit on the anxious side. The coral forms in canyons and it can be very sharp and I did not want to navigate a coral canyon in complete darkness. Plus there are fish there that like to bite. There are also some deadly poisonous fish in the lagoon and I did not know about their nocturnal habits.
I have some images of Sirius, will post just a few today. Took them with my Nikon camera, shutter speed at 1/3200 which is as fast as it will go, and a 200mm zoom lens.
more later on Sirius.
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