They are very shy but at sundown dart out into the open to meet and mate within the dizzing space of a few minutes(!) They join together, rise up together for about a metre (see pic 4) before releasing sperm and a cloud of eggs & that’s it. Au revoir.
I was able to use the in-camera flash on the Powershot S100 to photograph them, it didn’t seem to disturb them but strobe lights would have been too much.
Photographed in Yap, Micronesia.
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 1 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 2 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 3 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
[IMG]Mandarin Fish 4 by Barbara Bett, on Flickr[/IMG]
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