Awesome DVD

[phender]

Some of you guys might remember this photo from the Clownfish /Anemone forum:

I went to the website the pic was taken from http://www.underwaterkwaj.com and found the guy has a video on DVD. So I e-mailed the guy (he is in the Air Force stationed in the Marshall Islands) and he sent me the DVD for $20. It came yesterday. It is incredible!!! The water is so clear and the lighting so good, it looks like it was done in an aquarium. He has macro shots of fish that I never would have guessed he could have gotten that close to.

There are tricintus clowns ranging from yellowish brown to completely black, chysopterus and pink skunks as well. H. magnifica with blue, purple and pink bases and one with a blue and white stiped base! (I swear!) There are H. crispa in greens and purples as well as one that is completely opaque white w/ purple tips. There are pizza anemones with blue crust and white middles.
There are all types of fish and inverts including corals.

You can tell I am excited. I got my copy pretty fast, but he says the mail coming and going from his area can take 2 weeks just to get to Hawaii. I got lucky and got mine within a week from it being sent.

Maybe I will bring it to gho's frag swap and let some of you have a preview.

 

[codybug]

That is an awesome picture!

 

[JN Reef]

Is the DVD a documentary with live moving fishes/corals...or is it a bunch of still pictures slideshow format?
I would be interested in ordering this DVD also.

 

[seamist]

make illegal copies and send to us...J/K

Very nice

 

[Charles99]

nniiicccceeee!!!!

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7313050#post7313050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JN Reef
Is the DVD a documentary with live moving fishes/corals...or is it a bunch of still pictures slideshow format?
I would be interested in ordering this DVD also.

The DVD is 72 minutes of moving fish and inverts. There is no narration just background music. There are subtitles giving the common names for the organisms that can be turned on or off.

It is arranged by type of organism with each animal getting about 6-10 seconds of video time before moving on. He'll show 6 or 7 different clams that will make you want to board the next flight to the Marshall Islands: blue gigas, blue squammosa, purple maximas, then move on to butterfly fish and clownfish, etc., and then come back and show 5 more clams that are better than the first. There are also video close-ups of rare fish like ventralis anthias and Helfrichi firefish.

It is definately worth the $20.

 

[NicoleC]

Heavens, that anemone must be at least 100 years old. Maybe 200.

 

[phender]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7318072#post7318072 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NicoleC
Heavens, that anemone must be at least 100 years old. Maybe 200.

It is a big anemone. By my crude calculations from the video, I would say between 24 and 30". I'm not sure you can estimate age simply by size. I had a haddoni carpet grow from 8" to 20" in 2 or 3 years, so they are capable of growing pretty fast. I would think this individual would be a pretty easy one to track to determine age in the wild.

FWIW: The reasoning and data used by Fautin to proclaim that anemones live hundreds of years has been called in question by many biologists including Julian Sprung and Ron Shimek.

 

[ScotchMaster]

Man that anenome is amazing! Id love to go scuba there!

 

[shutiny]

Phil,

Phil,

What an awesome red carpet! Thanks for sharing the info. I am ordering a copy of the DVD.
Thanks