Theme 19-31 May, 2009: Your smallest animal

[alcina]

Thanks to caymaniac for our theme for the rest of the month: your smallest animal!

Here's a teensy little baby butterflyfish to get us started

 

[fairybasslet]

I don't know if this was absolutely the tiniest critter I ever saw. I remember a real, itty bitty frog fish in Lembeh, but those photos are on my external hard drive. Take too long to find.:shocked2:

Baby pipe fish, Cozumel

 

[hwa0421]

Little squat shrimp

redeye goby

I don't know what is it. You can see them (like tiny spider).

 

[fisheyeview]

Copepod hitching a ride on a Sea Hare.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

This guy would've been hard to see even if he wasn't so tiny ...

This juvenlie lumpsucker is about the size of a fly ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MaxBottomtime]

My fiancee loves to collect microscopic samples from the water we dive in. These are some of the things we rinse our masks out with.

 

[sharky60]

After sorting thru all the pipe fish, dragons, juvie drums and nudi pics, these seemed to be the best choices...


this tiny puffer that actually held still for a pic...

another lucky find...Sender filefish holds on in at Palancar Bricks, Cozumel...

and finally, this itty bitty Nudi...

 

[Deefstes]

Not a great picture but my favourite tiny creature to date. This Whip Coral Goby was no longer than 1cm. Photographed on 2-Mile reef in Sodwana, South Africa.


This Phyllidiopsis striata could not have been any longer than 1cm either.


And here is another Goby I believe (would appreciate if someone could tell me the species) that I photographed on Banana Reef diving from Key Largo earlier this month.

 

[Sas]

Here are some of the tiny things I have found:

A baby puffer about the size of my thumb tip

A tiny Short-Headed Seahorse

A little worm I found writhing midwater

 

[Deefstes]

A baby puffer about the size of my thumb tip

That is positively the cutest thing posted on these forums ever!