Good Morning Ms. Venusta! video of Coris Venusta wrasse waking up.

[3rdimension]

It's not the highest quality, but kinda cute to see her popping her head out and coming out from her burrowed sand nap. I filmed with an hd camera but since I didn't know exactly where she burrowed last night, I filmed the entire aquarium, then at the last second caught her popping out, then zoomed in as fast as I could. I'll try to know where she's sleeping tonight and then have the camera ready, up close and filming in HD tomorrow morning. I just think it's fascinating how these fish can survive and breath under the sand like that.


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[tqpolo]

Very cool.

 

[3rdimension]

Here's a clip from this morning in higher quality from a different angle. I had to carefully and quietly remove the large reef ornament it burrowed under last night so I could get a good shot. of it coming out from the sand. I'd like to get another shot of it up even closer, as long as I know exactly where it's burrowed the night before. Enjoy!


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[Recty]

Here's a clip from this morning in higher quality from a different angle. I had to carefully and quietly remove the large reef ornament it burrowed under last night so I could get a good shot of it coming out from the sand.

Pretty cool. I wonder what it was like for the fish to wake up to a changed landscape... or if it even remembered there was something there when it went to sleep?

Hope you dont mind if I share a picture... here is my dragon wrasse coming out of the sand.

 

[3rdimension]

Pretty cool. I wonder what it was like for the fish to wake up to a changed landscape... or if it even remembered there was something there when it went to sleep?

Hope you dont mind if I share a picture... here is my dragon wrasse coming out of the sand.

Not a problem, that's cool. They're all unique looking. I discovered my wrasse burrowed near the same spot again tonight. I think she found her favorite spot, even though I put the ornament back in place after this morning. I filmed her borrowing tonight, but only captured sand kicking up after she went between two ornaments. I plan on getting a close up again tomorrow without moving anything now that I know her spot. kinda fun and interesting to watch wrasse behavior.

 

[LemonLemon]

very cool!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrEVgv78zI&feature=player_embedded

here's something different.

instead of waking up, there's a short video of my razor wrasse (Xyrichtys pentadactylus) going to sleep. the video's pretty blur even under 702p HD, coz it was during lights out.

 

[denash24]

That's another beautiful fish you've got there Lemon.

 

[LemonLemon]

thanks!

it looks like a zombie. love the blunt square head.

although the coris venusta posted is equally amazing if you ask me!

 

[3rdimension]

thanks!

it looks like a zombie. love the blunt square head.

although the coris venusta posted is equally amazing if you ask me!

That's Awesome! I tried to get video of my wrasse burrowing last night, but one of the ornaments was blocking the view. Now that I know her exact spot two nights in a row same location, I'm going to have the camera rolling in that location. I tried capturing her this morning waking up again but up real close, but the camera turned off automatically after 25 minutes of running just seconds before the wrasse woke up. Lame. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow and try changing the settings on my camera so it'll never turn off unless it runs out of battery. My battery was still half full and plenty of drive space left too.

 

[3rdimension]

Almost looks like a Miniature sized "Mahi Mahi"

 

[Recty]

Well as long as we are talking about going to sleep... here is my dragon wrasse doing just that No video, just some rapid fire pictures.

 

[3rdimension]

those are pretty cool pics

 

[3rdimension]

I finally got some pretty good footage of my wrasse burrowing. Flickr is lame to only allow regular accounts to only upload 2 videos per month. then they charge $25 a year. I think I'll start posting videos from other video sites that are free with no limit.

 

[3rdimension]

I hope this embedding video works from Vimeo. it's my latest clip of my wrasse burrowing.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/32389967?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/32389967">Coris Venusta Wrasse going to sleep</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user9344441">John Trimble</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

[Recty]

That's interesting it chose to burrow right by another fish.

My dragon wrasse was very particular about it... if another fish was anywhere near him, he would just circle the spot waiting, but once the other fish were gone he would dive right in.

 

[3rdimension]

That's interesting it chose to burrow right by another fish.

My dragon wrasse was very particular about it... if another fish was anywhere near him, he would just circle the spot waiting, but once the other fish were gone he would dive right in.

well right in that channel between two ornaments, alot of the fish like to swim by there and hang out. The wrasse usually circles that area over a couple dozen times before it gets tired of looking for food and plain tired. She usually doesn't mind other fish and continues on her way of doing whatever even when darted toward once in a while. not much phases her. She probably got used to more aggressive fish in her temporary home at the lfs aquarium that I observed before I picked her up. I really don't have any aggressive fish in my aquarium now since I got rid of my last damsel. Just a pair of percula clowns, coral beauty, algae blenny and sifter goby for now.