Fish faces have always facinated me.....
Monday Photo ~ Faces
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notabob
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Here're a couple more faces... There's just something really cute about a balloon fish's face... Then there's that morbid curiosity when it comes to #2 
-Roman.
-Roman.
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I forgot about the morbid curiosity side....
Dr. Jay
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Some curiosity...
And some morbid...
Dee, your morbid was definately more morbid than mine.ut:
And some morbid...
Dee, your morbid was definately more morbid than mine.
ut:My-way
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Big red.
notabob
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Anyone ever notice how the caribbean 'cudas tend to spend a lot of their time along the bottom vs. Greats. I don't think I saw a great barracuda once below 30-40ft or so... Could be that they just seemed to be attracted by the loud rumble of the boat's generators.. Especially the larger ones. The particular one in my photo was probably over 5ft in size... Smaller ones would just pass us by, but there'd often be one or two bigger 'cudas that seemed to like hanging out right under the boat, swimming up to within inches of the divers hanging on the lines, vying for attention...
-Roman.
-Roman.
"Anyone ever notice how the caribbean 'cudas tend to spend a lot of their time along the bottom vs. Greats."
Great Barracuda are the barracuda found in the Caribbean. I see them at various depths, including fairly deep.
Great Barracuda are the barracuda found in the Caribbean. I see them at various depths, including fairly deep.
notabob
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I was under the impression that they were different species. The ones I've seen in the caribbean tended to be much smaller than the ones further North in the Atlantic... I thought I remembered reading somewhere that they were two different species of 'cudas...
Aside from size differences, the ones in the Atlantic (N.Carolina) tended to prefer the topmost layers of the water column, I don't remember seeing many, if any, near the bottom. The ones in the Caribbean, would almost always hang out near the bottom... Normally I would've expected fish of same species to have similar behaviors and appearances. I'm not discounting the fact that I may have been mistaken, rather trying to understand the variations
-Roman.
The ones I see in Coz are usually hanging at the bottom in some eddy to avoid constantly swimming into the current and ( I suspect) ready to pounce on some unsuspecting fish.
Otter
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Notabob...what are the water temps in NC? Maybe they 'Cudas prefer warmer water. In your case in the shallower mid-water depths and the ones in Florida and the Caribbean at most any depth.
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