These are not from a pond.......well I guess some call it the "big pond" but usually it is referred to as the Caribbean.

Wife took some macro photos of some Seargent Major eggs and thought some of you might enjoy the fish egg pictures. Look closely and you can see the fish inside the egg. These must be pretty close to hatching.

Wife got a new camera and under water housing for Christmas and she is still struggleing to get it all working to suit her.

Awesome pictures! Thanks for posting them!

Those are common along the reef. When you swim towards the male will charge you, guarding the nest, then as you are past sometimes you can feel them nip your fin tips.

Too cool! Do you have a pic of him?

Not right off hand but will ask her to take a picture of one. Most of the stuff she likes to take pictures of are about the size of your finger nail up to about the size of your hand, but she does occasionally take the macro lens off and takes some bigger pictures. The Seargent Majors are about 6-9" long and shaped like a BG. Act a lot like a BG male guarding a nest but these have sticky eggs that they stick to about any hard surface flat, vertical or even some underneath a ledge. Interesting wathcing them spawn, much like FHM do.

But the male fans the nest and guards it like a BG.

Sea horses and frogfish are two favorite subjects. A pair of sea horses out front of where we are staying, but she is still having trouble focusing so no great pictures of them yet. Most people swim by them never seeing them unless they are with a guide. Very hard to spot.

Some guys hunt deer. I hunt sea horses and frogfish and my wife shoots them..........with a camera.

Carolynn Burns artist

Bill if you want to see some out of this world under water photos of Bonaire fish, check out Ellen Mullers photos. This lady lives down here and dives mostly at sunset or early night.

She got photos and video of frogfish spawning, which is an exceptionally rare thing to see. First, they spawn always at night (so you have to have the pair located and know when they are about to spawn - frogfish are exceptionally hard to find). Second, they swim up above their perch in open water. Then the female lays a long ribbon of eggs while the smaller male frantically fertilizes them. Then the egg mat floats away into open water to the unknown.

Her photos are just unbelievably good from a very unassuming common person. Take a look.

Ellen Muller Bonaire under water photos.

NEAT

very cool!

Wow! She has an awesome talent!

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What is that football shaped red area in the center of the first pic that kinda looks like lips?

Bill,
From one of your posts, I "thought" you were asking about the sergeant major fish pics... I found this link:
https://seafishes.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/honduras-sergeant-major.jpg

Wife says she did not know what the red was. She could not tell. Probably an encrusting type sponge or something of that nature. Fire clams are down in holes like that but I do not see the frilly white thingys around the edge so that is not likely.

She tried getting a picture of one of the seargent majors but the males guarding nests do not sit still for a moment. Her first attempts failed. She will get one eventually. Most of her fish pictures focus on things like blennys, gobys and other tiny fish. Many of her pictures are of critters rather than fish, although frogfish are a favorite when we can find them. Seems like it is about February before we start seeing those.