Looking for a Raccoon Butterfly or Kleins
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Pife
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Do you have any halicoris wrasse in there? If not I've had great success with burgia nudibranch.
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No on the Wrasse and I'd never use Berghia, been there done that.
You can't beat a Butterfly
I can grab you as many as you want when I'm back on Maui tomorrow night. :lol:
Big schools of them here, particularly off Lanai. They're smart too. They swim all around divers in schools, in a dazzling display, putting the diver completely in awe. But what they're secretly doing is leading the diver unknowingly towards Sergeant Majors guarding their nests of eggs. The Sergeant Majors are very defensive and will attack the biggest thing coming near their nests. Its a harmless nibble on the diver wearing a wetsuit but while the Sergeant Majors are distracted the raccoon butterflies pounce on the eggs. It's an amazing adaption to see but has become a regular part of my dive briefings in order to prevent it from happening.
Big schools of them here, particularly off Lanai. They're smart too. They swim all around divers in schools, in a dazzling display, putting the diver completely in awe. But what they're secretly doing is leading the diver unknowingly towards Sergeant Majors guarding their nests of eggs. The Sergeant Majors are very defensive and will attack the biggest thing coming near their nests. Its a harmless nibble on the diver wearing a wetsuit but while the Sergeant Majors are distracted the raccoon butterflies pounce on the eggs. It's an amazing adaption to see but has become a regular part of my dive briefings in order to prevent it from happening.
That's pretty amazing! Did you figure this out, or was it already known? Pretty tough surviving on the reef. How big are the Raccoon Butterflies?
Its a thing that's been going on at a few of the more popular dive sites for awhile now. Most are a solid 5-7 inches.
Mr D smack
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That small :debi: lol
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