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for some spawning behavior and
for some shot of them swimming around in the eel grass. The tides here are about 10 feet. This area has lots of "land" that get almost completely submerged, with much deep channels between the land. Great place to kayak in and watch the fish and crabs. These were taken with a Kodak Playsport underwater video camera.
Fundulus heteroclitus in the wild
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 09:31 AM
Were these films shot on a spring tide?
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 09:46 AM
Were these films shot on a spring tide?
Close. The spawning one was about 1 hour past high tide and about 3 days after the full moon. The water was about a foot deep at the time. The one is the grass was about 2 hours after high tide, I did not record the moon phase.
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 10:05 AM
Very nice. How were you stabilizing the camera?
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 10:15 AM
Very nice. How were you stabilizing the camera?
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Thanks!
I just embedded the bottom inch or so in the sand. If you go to Kodak's page, ( http://store.kodak.c...uctID.169976100 ) you'll see how this work, it is a very slim camera.
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Posted 27 November 2011 - 02:26 PM
That's very cool 
I'm glad you shared. I had never seen mummichogs swim around in the wild before. The one fish in the first one seems very itchy, though. That's not good. I thought brackish fish didn't have to deal with external parasites so much?
I'm glad you shared. I had never seen mummichogs swim around in the wild before. The one fish in the first one seems very itchy, though. That's not good. I thought brackish fish didn't have to deal with external parasites so much?
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Posted 27 November 2011 - 03:19 PM
Marine and brackish fishes have their own groups of both internal and external parasites to deal with, which are usually relatives of the freshwater versions. Common aquarium "ich" has marine relatives, for instance.
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Posted 27 November 2011 - 08:42 PM
That's very cool
I thought I read once that some fish (it may have been marine species) do that same behaviour (scratching themselves on a surface) to indicate territory...??
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