By Pierre Kaufmann (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 11:28 am: |
When I was diving on Bonaire last week I saw this little thing bouncing around in amongst the corals that looke like a big black pea with yellow dots. I tried to take photos of it, but gave up because it wouldnt hold still enough for me to get a shot of it making things really fuzzy. anyone have any idea what this was?
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By DARLENE ELLIS (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1947) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 11:36 am: |
It sounds like a juvenile trunk fish.
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16717) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 2:02 pm: |
Darlene, I agree. Pierre, did it look like this? This is about the size of a small fingernail.
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By pat murphy (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #789) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 5:12 pm: |
yep, a baby trunkfish. looks like a pea floating aimlessly in the water.
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By Carl S (BonaireTalker - Post #24) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 5:47 pm: |
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16722) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 6:03 pm: |
And VERY difficult to photograph! They usually are in the coral and floating with the current or just swimming/floating and to get a picture of them isn't easy! I have one, but it's not as good as Barb's or Tom's above.
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By Susan Taft (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #587) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 7:20 pm: |
Spotted black peas ... I always think of baby trunk fish as little marbles ... I sure do love them!
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By Mare (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1278) on Monday, February 6, 2006 - 9:09 pm: |
I think of them as little dice! Lucky little dice!
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By Eileen BT Mommy x 2 (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #9502) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 6:36 am: |
They are too cute!
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By Pierre Kaufmann (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 7:56 am: |
Yeah! That looks like what I saw - especially Carl's shot. I think the one I saw was smaller and rounder tho. Thanks!
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By Cecil (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4421) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 10:10 am: |
This is the one I caught last year.
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By Dr. Director (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #124) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 1:34 pm: |
Attached are two photos of very small juvenile trunkfish, taken a year apart with a Canon S400. Both show how hard it is to really get them in focus.
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By Glen Reem (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2305) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 2:03 pm: |
I believe fuzzy spots are God's way of confusing swimming predators, eaters or photographers.
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By Gail Thomas (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #897) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 3:18 pm: |
I think the smooth trunkfish became my favorite fish when I first encountered those little swimming balls and found out what they were. The teeny fins were going so fast, it was hard to tell that there were fins,and the head hadn't started to emerge yet, and so I swore that I saw little swimming marbles! What a design..... Mom Nature at her best!
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By seb (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2571) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 3:27 pm: |
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16746) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 3:36 pm: |
Seb...wow...my new desktop
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By Back to Jeanine, or is it Tribs? (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2011) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 6:08 pm: |
Yes Seb...what Cyn said!!!!
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By Gail Thomas (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #898) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 7:03 pm: |
Great capture, Seb! Did you pay him to pose for you?!! ;)
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By Rona of Black Durgon Inn & Scuba Center (BonaireTalker - Post #31) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 9:10 pm: |
Is there even a remora small enough?
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16754) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 10:36 pm: |
Hmmm...Rona and the baby remora...;-)
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By wish I had gills (BonaireTalker - Post #48) on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 - 11:22 pm: |
Rona, of course there are remora's small enough.
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By Eileen BT Mommy x 2 (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #9509) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 3:59 am: |
Wow! Great Pics!!
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By Pierre Kaufmann (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 7:42 am: |
Wow! Great pics - definitely no doubt what I saw now! Although I'm pretty sure there was no remora on the one I saw!
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By seb (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2572) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 8:59 am: |
Thanks guys, they are cute little fishes, ain't they?
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16757) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
Gills...LMAO...nice photoshop...
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By Rona of Black Durgon Inn & Scuba Center (BonaireTalker - Post #32) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
Pierre, isn't it great to have a name to go with the identity.
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By Becky Hauser (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #220) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 3:58 pm: |
Gills - LMAO! Love the name!!!!
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By Laura a.k.a. Snowfire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #237) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 8:13 pm: |
Are these little guys common? I hope so, 'cos I'd so love to see one.
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By David Frank (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #379) on Wednesday, February 8, 2006 - 11:58 pm: |
Laura,
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By Cyn (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #16779) on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 10:58 am: |
Laura, my last trip was the first time I had seen one. I think because my buddies were not aerobic divers and we spent a lot of time looking and taking our time. They are in the shallower water, 35 feet and above, hang in the corals. And David's right, once you have seen one, you know where and "how" to look for them. I also saw a lettuce slug for the first time the last trip, and then of course, from then on, saw one on almost every dive!
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By Michael (Marty)DeReus (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Thursday, February 9, 2006 - 8:27 pm: |
Cecil, I think the out-of-focus areas in your photo are due to the picture being taken through a very transparent pectoral fin. Do you think that's possible? They are still cute little guys, including the adults.
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By Beverly Fillio (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #181) on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:50 am: |
great pictures, hope there are some around this next month
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By Laura a.k.a. Snowfire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #259) on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:38 pm: |
Cyn -- It's not, apparently. My question about sea urchins has been moved to the "Nature" section.
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By Cynde (Moderator) (Moderator - Post #98) on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 2:45 pm: |
Laura, we just "created" that section as we didn't have a dedicated section prior to answer/ask Bonaire marine life questions. So, after the mods discussed, we created a new section, "Fish and Sealife of Boniare" and thus your thread was moved. We will need to move this one over there as well
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By Laura a.k.a. Snowfire (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #264) on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 11:00 am: |
Ah, I see.
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By Freddie Hughes {Moderator} (Moderator - Post #119) on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
Moved by moderator to a more appropriate thread
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By Tom (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3034) on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:37 am: |
I love "Bumperfish"!! Thanks all!
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By Brian Kempe (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 4:49 pm: |
We didn't have a name so we've been calling them coco puffs. I have three of something similar in my tank. I live on the beach in south Florida and go out daily scooping up Sargassum seaweed and collecting the fish that hide in it. Lately I have been finding fish that are the same size as a pea or smaller. They are dark greenish brown and almost perfectly round except for a tiny bump of a mouth. They have tiny pin point eyes and it takes a few moments of observing their movement to recognize them as a living creature especially since they are hiding among piles of rotting seaweed balls that look identical to these fish. Compared to the pictures here they have no spots. further while a hint of a short strip of fin can be seen on their rear, I cannot see any on their side, though I presume they are there just to small for the naked eye. The photos you have on here show fins clearly visible. They must be very close relatives at least. Ill try and get a good picture tonight. Side note. I recently caught a sargassum frog fish fully five inches long. Is that unusual.
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By Glen Reem (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3288) on Friday, March 25, 2011 - 3:37 pm: |
Brian,
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