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Don't you think that this is the coolest colorful fish ever? I think that it is so COOL, and I just love the colors of it and the shape too! Have an awesome afternoon! (View large for awesome details!)
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Kim
Miscellaneous Composition; "jelly fish"; Norwalk Sea Aquarium; (very difficult in dark light, with no tripod, shooting through glass and water) (c) Diana Lee Photo Designs
I wanted to practice the Opus Vermiculatum style of mosaic on the back. Those are droplets because he is jumping out of the water!
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Something fishy.
Music : PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
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TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Order: Perciformes (Perch-likes)
Family: Pomacanthidae (Angelfishes)
GENUS/SPECIES Holacanthus ciliaris
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Like their close relatives the butterflyfishes, they have a deep, laterally compressed body, a single, unnotched dorsal fin, and a small mouth with brushlike teeth. The most observable difference between butterfly fishes is the long spine at the corner of the preopercle common to angelfishes.
H. ciliaris is deep-bodied and strongly laterally compressed. Dorsal and anal fins trail. The color of large adults is purplish blue with yellow-orange rims to the scales; head above eye dark blue. They have a distinctive "crown" is speckled dark blue and surrounded by a ring of bright blue.
Juveniles have vertical blue bands on an orange-red body. As the fish grows, the bars increase in number before gradually disappearing.
Length up to 45 cm (18 in), weight up to 1.6 kg (3.5lbs).
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Found in Bermuda, Florida, Bahamas, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico to Brazil on offshore reefs, 2 –70+ m (6-200+ ft). Travel solitary or in pairs among sea fans, sea whips and corals.
DIET IN THE WILD: Queen angelfish primarily feed on sponges and corals.; also algae, tunicates, hydroids and bryozoans. Juveniles glean ectoparasites from other fish.
REPRODUCTION: Pairs reproduce bringing their bellies close together, and release sperm and 25 to 75 thousand eggs (10 million per spawning cycle). The eggs are transparent, buoyant, and pelagic hatching after 15 to 20 hours into larvae with the yolk sac being absorbed after 48 hours. The larvae then develop normal characteristics of free swimming fish feeding on plankton and about 3–4 weeks after hatching the 15–20 mm (0.6–0.8 in) long juvenile settles on the bottom. Juveniles are found among colonies of finger sponges and corals at the bottom of reefs for protection.
CONSERVATION: IUCN: Least concern.
References
California Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Caribbean reef fishes 2018
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-AV
fishbase www.fishbase.org/summary/3609
ADW animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Holacanthus_cilia...
flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157625866509117/
Taken on September 23, 2008, 2-17-13, 1-17-14, 1-05-16. 7-5-18
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"Fish hate to have their picture taken....for humans,fish appear as alien creatures living in a weightless twilight world. for fish,human divers appear to be not just aliens but true monsters with giant blank,masked eyes and Medusa-like pipes sprouting from their head ,making violent bubbling noises.
Fish are caricatures of humans--floating cartoons.
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Most fish pictures show fish swimming away into the blue,in this book,they look at us."
----- Fish Face by David Doubilet
Go diving now...... : ))
Here is one of the many beautiful fish on display at the Aquarium in Gatlinburg, TN
Camera: Nikon D7000
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The dam was listed on the National Register in 1978; the listing included just the one contributing structure on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) area.
In 2007 it was identified as one of the four highest-hazard dams in Idaho, having significant threat to human lives if it were to fail.
Father Time hasn't been kind to the Fish Creek Dam.
The broad, 92-foot-high by 1,700-foot-wide dam rests forlorn and almost forgotten in the lower Fish Creek drainage in the southern foothills of the Pioneer Mountains, 11 miles northeast of Carey. It has been weakened by more than 80 years of constant exposure to the harsh and unyielding elements. Countless freeze-and-thaw events have steadily deteriorated the hulking structure's concrete construction, engineers from the Idaho Department of Water Resources say.
In 2007, Fish Creek Dam was named by the Association of Dam Safety Officials as one of the four "high-hazard" dams in Idaho. The dam was included on a list of 14 dams in the state considered structurally deficient. The "high-hazard" designation means that if that dam fails, it poses a significant threat to human life.
Farmers in the Carey area hope they've found a way to repair the dam, which was completed in 1923. As with many things, the success or failure of the endeavor will ultimately come down to money. Fixing the dam will not be cheap.
In 2005, Department of Water Resources officials ordered the Fish Creek Reservoir Co. to cut a larger spillway in one side of the multiple-arch dam to keep the maximum water level in the reservoir from rising too high. Today, waters backing up behind the dam rise no higher than 69.2 feet.
Before the new spillway was cut, waters used to rise to a height of 88 feet behind the dam, said Corey Skinner, an engineer with the Department of Water Resources' Twin Falls District.
While the work did help alleviate some of the fears surrounding the dam's structural issues, Skinner said, concerns still remain.
Alas, much like humans-when given the choice-this bird opts for the junk food over the healthy omega-3 oils found in fish. Just what are we teaching our wildlife?
A stone fish weir- The Binding Dreams of Hope by Graeme Atkins, Abraham Karaka and Natalie Robertson (New Zealand)
The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
One of the many things New Zealand does best (IMHO). A hearty portion of fish & chips enjoyed dock side in Tauranga on the way to Whakatane later that day.
For anyone who ever gets over there, here it is on Street View - Bobbies Fish Market
It's definitely worth looking up. Fish comes in from the Pacific Ocean on the boats right there and right into the frier that day.
Fish River, Hardap Dam, Mariental, Namibia, 2022
Der Hardap Dam ist der zweitgrößte Stausee Namibias. Er speist sich aus dem Fish River, der von hier aus in den Süden des Landes fließt und dort den Fish River Canyon bildet. In Ufernähe stehen viele abgestorbene Bäume, die eine skurrile Kulisse bilden.
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Hardap Dam is the second largest reservoir in Namibia. It is fed by the Fish River, which flows from here to the south of the country, where it forms the Fish River Canyon. Near the shore are many dead trees that form a whimsical backdrop.