Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
More on Mimicry, Mutualism and Symbiosis by Steve Reynolds I keep returning back to my roots. As reported in The Colour of Fish in 2017, my first ever attempt at writing about marine life started in 1979 after I had read an article titled “Colour it Blue” by respected fishing […]
More Senator Fish Behaviour by Steve Reynolds In my report Recent Return to Rapid I wrote about how I came across a male senator wrasse just laying ahead of me. I didn’t know what the senator wrasse was doing so intently. At the time, I thought that perhaps it was […]
Recent Return to Rapid by Steve Reynolds I returned to Rapid Bay jetties, for the first time in two months, for a dive on 5th June. My dive was particularly enjoyable for a number of reasons. Apart from seeing the moonlighter with the unusual colour pattern on its right side, […]
More About Peculiar Colour Patterns in Fish by Steve Reynolds I was happy to see a few good-sized Moonlighters, Tilodon sexfasciatus, swimming beneath the old Rapid Bay jetty during my dive on 5th June 2020. I was also very surprised to see the unusual Moonlighter previously seen by David Muirhead, as […]
More peculiar colour patterns in fish (Mostly as told to Steve Reynolds by David Muirhead) I described a most peculiar colour pattern in zebra fish, Girella zebra in A Most Peculiar Colour Pattern in Zebra Fish (as told to Steve Reynolds by David Muirhead). Cropped image of the Zebra Fish […]
A Study of Melanism in the Black Manta Rays of the Indo-Pacific by Steve Reynolds Melanism is “darkening of body tissues caused by excessive production of melanin, especially as a form of colour variation in animals”. I know that black manta rays in the Indo-Pacific does not relate to South […]
Species sighted at Witton Bluff & Christies Reef by Steve Reynolds As reported in My Early Diving Days , Witton Bluff is the high point on the coast between Port Noarlunga and Christies Beach. It is named after the 1839 wreck of the David Witton. I did my first sea snorkel there […]
Concerns About the Welfare of Leafy Seadragons at Rapid Bay by Steve Reynolds The Scuba Divers Federation of South Australia recently issued a statement because of concerns about the welfare of leafy seadragons at Rapid Bay in light of increased diver activity whilst waiting for new steps to be built […]
The Observed Behaviour of a Mating Pair of Krefft’s Frillgoby in an Aquarium by Steve Reynolds (as told to him by Dion Clarke) Dion Clarke recently posted this photo on the SA Natureteers Facebook page: – It was accompanied by the comments: – “Yesterday, we noticed an orange fish in […]
Scientists believe that they have proven that fish are ‘self-aware’ by Steve Reynolds Because of my interest in fish behaviour, and a desire to learn all about fish cleaning behaviour as a part of that, I was very interested to read a recent newspaper report regarding cleaner wrasse. The report […]