Marty’s photo of the day #5145: This is a blue-chin parrotfish accompanied by razor surgeonfish (left) and black striped salema (right). (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
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Blue-chin Parrotfish
Marty’s photo of the day #5001: This is a blue-chin parrotfish, and it grows to 30 inches in length. Like all parrotfish, it has two sets of teeth. The first set is fused into a beak that allows it to crush coral to feed on algae. The second set is in its throat, which grinds […]
Raja Ampat vs. the Galapagos Islands
Eventually I will get to more spectacular underwater photos, but I think this shot demonstrates the difference between what I had been posting previously from the Raja Ampat of Indonesian New Guinea and what I will be posting in the coming weeks from the Galapagos Islands. The Raja Ampat has incredible coral reefs that the […]