Chrysopterus in Guam "notice something?"

[mbdave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxpOPh7us4&feature=related

Take a look at this video, this is an island off the very southern end of Guam called Coco's. Around the 5:00 point in the video you will see a pair of chry's in a mertensii "very common there 90% of the time I would see them in mertensii anemones" but just beyond the mertensii is a crispa with what I believe is a single chrysopterus at least I only see one there might be a small one snuggled down in the anemone and if you notice the color is quite dull on the single compared to the pair. I was trying to explain this once on one of the threads the color difference of chrys in different anemones but here you can see it. What I'm getting at is anemones most likely have alot to do with the vivid colors that chrysopterus can have? The few Chrys I saw in crispas were always dull like the one in this video while the mertensii chrys were always just stunning.
My 2 cents,
Dave

 

[ezhoops]

Awesome video, very jealous. Yes that is very interesting and I tend to agree with that theory. However, I have kept chrys in RBTA and never had a dulling of color either. I will be attempting a pair in a Purple LTA and see what happens.

 

[vaporize]

I thought they are very different Looks like the Tonga yellow-tail variant

Thanks for sharing, would love to see more

 

[houser]

If they were white tails - but they're not

 

[houser]

I did like the action on that mertens though. Very sweet.
+1 on sucker for anything chrysopterus