More pictures from the Keys

[Brazengrrl]

This was at Molassas reef, visibility was much better!

We fed the fish formula one

We think this is a head stone???

And this is where we stayed

 

[waterfaller1]

WOW!!! Those are fabulous shots..the pic of him with the formula 1 is priceless! Did you have more pics, did I miss them? Just great...thanks for sharing. Know what any of those fish are? What is the big blue one?

 

[sytanek]

can I be funny and say blue chromis in the 2nd pic? lol

 

[sytanek]

Pic #5 is a Lactophrys triqueter I believe.

 

[sytanek]

I forget the big blue guy, but they have one at the keywest aquarium. I want to say he is a type of wrasse, I know its hard to believe but I think it is.

 

[sytanek]

Ok, I was thinking Napolean Wrasse but I may be wrong.

 

[thor32766]

the big blue guy is a type of parrot fish.

 

[waterfaller1]

Cool..check it out..the last link says they are rare.

http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=601

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1153

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Scaridae.html

http://www.coexploration.org/bbsr/coral/html/body_parrotfish.html

http://www.reefnews.com/reefnews/news/v06/v06n10/blparrot.html

 

[lifesworksataol]

wow - awesome pics - i wish we went with you :-( hotel and diving spots were both better! - brannon are you taking notes? haha

 

[kh6sat]

Wow! Fantastic shots!

 

[ReefingBuddha]

really nice pictures. I got a chance to snorkel off of my buddies apartment in the bahamas and got to see a huge pair of french angelfish and some truelly massive colonies on ricordia. Of course the leopard ray wasn't to bad either. Being in the hobby down here its is easy to forge that some much cool stuff is right along our coastline.

Great pictures, must have been a hell of a trip.

 

[eliteaqua]

where did you stay, we are looking to go there

 

[Brazengrrl]

We did some snorkeling around some islands in Marathon, its unbelieveable the different kinds of fish there are down there. There was a woman who was collecting fish with a slurp gun. She got a few different wrasses adn 2 high hats. She tried to get two reddish lawnmower blennies, they were fighting over a hole, but she couldnt get them. There were also beautiful tangs, tiny tiny ones and they seemed to be having identity crisses, they were swimming with the big fish like they were family. There was also a spot where a Sgt Major kept charging Walter anytime he went near his house, like he didnt realize how big Walter was in compareason to him.
We stayed in Key Colony, heres the web site for some of the houses down there

http://www.keysproperties.com

 

[sytanek]

I'm sure having the jet ski's made it so much easier to go out to places. Yall are lucky