Sea Buddies. Longnose Hawk Fish, Oxycirrhites typus, and Protoreaster lincki, Red-knobbed Starfish, Aquarium, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
So this time I escaped the Dreary, Glum and Chilly weather by going to the Amsterdam Zoo's Aquarium. Interesting place always to be, but now I was saddened to see that several terraria have been cleared. I wasn't really surprised because I hadn't seen a favorite of mine, the Poison Golden Frog, in its terrarium for a while and fear it to be dead. And the same is true of a few other glass homes.
I went on to the fish... There, too, things seemed a bit low-key. In fact, I fear for the good health of Oxycirrhites typus, Longnose Hawk Fish, see my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/23287383462/in/photoli.... In that photo you can see a beautifully clear Blue Eye. That wasn't due to the light but actually really so. Today its eye seemed occluded and not nearly as healthy. Perhaps Oxy is dying, too, although it was dashing back and forth as is its wont. On the other hand, Protore seems to be in good health; compare the photo I took on Christmas Day: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/23334680543/in/photoli....
Here they're both together: Sea Buddies.
Sea Buddies. Longnose Hawk Fish, Oxycirrhites typus, and Protoreaster lincki, Red-knobbed Starfish, Aquarium, Natura Artis Magistra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
So this time I escaped the Dreary, Glum and Chilly weather by going to the Amsterdam Zoo's Aquarium. Interesting place always to be, but now I was saddened to see that several terraria have been cleared. I wasn't really surprised because I hadn't seen a favorite of mine, the Poison Golden Frog, in its terrarium for a while and fear it to be dead. And the same is true of a few other glass homes.
I went on to the fish... There, too, things seemed a bit low-key. In fact, I fear for the good health of Oxycirrhites typus, Longnose Hawk Fish, see my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/23287383462/in/photoli.... In that photo you can see a beautifully clear Blue Eye. That wasn't due to the light but actually really so. Today its eye seemed occluded and not nearly as healthy. Perhaps Oxy is dying, too, although it was dashing back and forth as is its wont. On the other hand, Protore seems to be in good health; compare the photo I took on Christmas Day: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/23334680543/in/photoli....
Here they're both together: Sea Buddies.