There's something fishy about this build...

Loved the tide pools! Did you dee the baby thin-nail sized convict tangs in the tide pools? Also a cool type of blenny.
I see plenty of blennies but haven't seen any baby convicts. Baby raccoon butterflies though. Tons of sally light foot crabs.
 
Loved the tide pools! Did you dee the baby thin-nail sized convict tangs in the tide pools? Also a cool type of blenny.
I have now!! Lik dime sized!
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Just did a two step free dive and wow do I have some photos!! Just need to process!
 
I have now!! Lik dime sized!
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Just did a two step free dive and wow do I have some photos!! Just need to process!
Yes, they are adorable! And TOTALLY catchable!
 
@Fishfreak2009 butterflies!
I did see a group of the very rare Tinkers butterfly but all you can see in the video is my guide being excited and some smudges in the distance

I think these are the first redfins I've seen.
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Reticulate are rare and were too shy to get a good photo
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Lined
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Ornate are very common but very pretty
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Also gold eye bristletooth tangs
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@Fishfreak2009 butterflies!
I did see a group of the very rare Tinkers butterfly but all you can see in the video is my guide being excited and some smudges in the distance

I think these are the first redfins I've seen.
IMG_2853.jpeg


Reticulate are rare and were too shy to get a good photo
IMG_2850.jpeg


Lined
IMG_2861.jpeg


Ornate are very common but very pretty
IMG_2820.jpeg




Also gold eye bristletooth tangs
IMG_2876.jpeg
I'll take a pair of each please! I miss my butterflies. After having a velvet outbreak (came in with a lobster I didn't quarantine) I lost all my butterflies, my tilefish, and a few others. Decided to switch things up and got a bunch of dwarf angels. Newest one is this guy, a hybrid between a half black (C. vroliki) and a lemonpeel (C. flavissima), which brought me up to 6 dwarf angels in the 5' 100 gallon. Also in this really crappy pic are the bicolor and the Rusty, not pictured are the pygmy African flameback, the coral beauty, or the misbarred flame.


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I'll take a pair of each please! I miss my butterflies. After having a velvet outbreak (came in with a lobster I didn't quarantine) I lost all my butterflies, my tilefish, and a few others. Decided to switch things up and got a bunch of dwarf angels. Newest one is this guy, a hybrid between a half black (C. vroliki) and a lemonpeel (C. flavissima), which brought me up to 6 dwarf angels in the 5' 100 gallon. Also in this really crappy pic are the bicolor and the Rusty, not pictured are the pygmy African flameback, the coral beauty, or the misbarred flame.


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I was REALLY tempted by this guy last night, but at $250, he's a bit above my experimental budget, and I don't have the time to work on training one over consistently onto frozen right now. Plus I don't have any SPS currently growing if it doesn't make the swap.

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I was REALLY tempted by this guy last night, but at $250, he's a bit above my experimental budget, and I don't have the time to work on training one over consistently onto frozen right now. Plus I don't have any SPS currently growing if it doesn't make the swap.

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Look at those tiny YWG...
 
I was REALLY tempted by this guy last night, but at $250, he's a bit above my experimental budget, and I don't have the time to work on training one over consistently onto frozen right now. Plus I don't have any SPS currently growing if it doesn't make the swap.

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Not going to tell us the species?
 
were all those photos from two step? Love that place. The water is /seemed considerably cooler since its open ocean and the only place where corals were alive in abundance
 
were all those photos from two step? Love that place. The water is /seemed considerably cooler since its open ocean and the only place where corals were alive in abundance
Everything from today
 
were all those photos from two step? Love that place. The water is /seemed considerably cooler since its open ocean and the only place where corals were alive in abundance
I talked with the guides. I thought Hawaii had a lack of coral biodiversity due to die-offs. Apparently, its always lacked coral biodiversity because it is so far away from everything.
 
I talked with the guides. I thought Hawaii had a lack of coral biodiversity due to die-offs. Apparently, its always lacked coral biodiversity because it is so far away from everything.
No real access to a oceanic current that brings nutrients. Odd that there are so many "coralivores" but very little corals.
 

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