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I purchased the Olympus TG6 a few weeks ago and I am quite excited about its macro capabilities. I use it with a Sea & Sea YS-D1 strobe, mostly in Aperture priority mode for still photography. The photographs are from Dauin in the Philippines. An anemone shrimp: Fire sea urchin anal bulb...

Hi All, two great colleagues and myself just published a study about the brains of the shrimp gobies which are so well liked by divers. The study uses computer simulations of a simplified brain model of the goby brain to test hypotheses what kind of changes have to happen to a "regular" fish...

Another somewhat unusual effort in underwater videography: Footage of gobies shot in the muntain creeks of Negros Island in the Philippines, about 30 minutes by car from the diver's paradise Dauin. These gobies are not terribly shy; the creeks are up to a bit more than a meter deep; I shot all...

As we all know, if we just change the way we speak about things we can easily solve pretty much all real problems. This seems to be the motivation behind this petition to change the name of the damselfishes to “Hooliganfishes”. It would certainly be a more apt name for the very aggressive fishes...

My current scientific interest centers around shrimp gobies and the shrimp which they live in a symbiosis with, by sharing an underground burrow. Since these often very pretty gobies are popular with divers and underwater photographers, too, I have set up .... The Shrimp Goby Page The page...

Please enjoy this video featuring the shrimp - goby symbiosis seen in tropical and sub-tropical oceans, where the shrimp provides a burrow to the goby in return for guard duties by the fish. When a predator approaches the pair, the goby flees into the burrow very quickly. The shrimp notices...

I've had some new camera gadgets to play with lately, and I am fairly happy with the results.. This video of a shrimp goby I partially shot with the Inon bugeye lens. I just love this lens, it creates such a unique effects. I can show a small animal, and a big view of its environment with the...

The well-known shrimp-goby symbiosis. What I am not sure about is the reason for the odd jerking movements of the gobies. These are not the usual warning signals to the shrimp, I believe. Some of the jawing is respiratory, I assume, but why the upper-body jerks, and the bouncing up and down...

Some interesting fish behavior, filmed last week in Siquijor, Philippines. These gobies (Valenciennea puellaris) live in pairs, and build borrows in the sand. They consider the sandy area around their burrow their territory. Here, one foreign goby tried to invade. Some posing and fighting...

I made a mini-documentary about the shrimp goby symbiosis fund in sandy areas of the tropical Indo-Pacific. I am much more seasoned as a stills photographer, so this is my first real effort in videography. Any feedback is welcome! I used my Canon 5DII, which I think is great for video as well...