Here's a #Crustmas / #fishmas / #25DaysOfFishmas double-whammy:

Two Cephalopholis igarashiensis groupers just partying in among an absolute MESS of little purple and yellow shrimps (what are they?!)

Filmed from a crewed submersible at ~215m on expedition in Tuvalu.

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Bonus eagle ray in slightly deeper water (but still shot from the pier)

Lilipuna Pier videos, part 4, bringing back #FlatFuckFriday (is that a thing still?):

Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.

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Part 3 of Bad Videos Taken from the Lilipuna Pier:

This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).

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Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.

Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.

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Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*

Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.

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A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟

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