[Video] Dancing Dragonets

[Oysterman]

Hello,

some days ago i was lucky shooting the nightly dancing and mating of my dragonets (Synchiropus stellatus).

They do this almost every evening but mostly they are stopping the moment i start the camera. Not this time - gotcha. ;-)

Enjoy the show!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGwGHgC8uPc

 

[cristhiam]

That's awsome. how long have you had them?

 

[Oysterman]

The male around 4 or 5 month the female around 8 months.
They started this 2 days after i finally got my hands on a partner for my single female.
I recently moved and upgraded my tank - all the fish were a little "shaken" after catching them and transporting them to their new home. Only the dragonets were dancing in the evening -as usual- like nothing had happened ;-)

 

[cristhiam]

very nice, besides copepods what else do they eat?

 

[55semireef]

They eat basically copepods and algae right?

 

[Oysterman]

They eat what they can get.
Every kind of frozen food (mysis, brine shrimp) if it reaches the ground
and i have also seen them eat flakes and pellets.
They are a little clumsy when it comes to catching food drifting in the flow but they will eat almost anything falling down.

but i doubt that this very representative with this species. ;-)

 

[Rothie]

Incedible video.Thank you for sharing.

 

[Angel*Fish]

Wow! Thanks for that beautiful video.

I have a couple of spotted mandarins that do pretty much the same thing every night. But it's not as pretty because there's a bicolor anthias nudging them to break it up the whole time (I'm working on catching him & finding him a new home)

That dorsal fin on the male is spectacular - didn't know they had that!

 

[BTTRFLYGRL]

That is too funny!! With the music in the background its as if they were dancing:lol:

 

[55semireef]

Yeah that dorsal fin was amazing. It suprised me.

 

[Bebo77]

schweet.. they like to dance lol

 

[Btboy2004]

Cool!!!:beer: :beer: :beer: