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This is the Large Whip goby, a small goby about four centimetres and a very special animal. To get both into this position, we had to have a lot of patience and change our position to arrive at this picture. The whipe coral is normally vertical, but I turned the photo horizontally for special effect. You will always find them in pairs, on whip coral or gorgonian at depths from five metres to 25 metres. It occurs in the Indo-Pacific, from South Africa to Hawaii. So it is not necessarily a special species at all, the problem is finding it. The goby races over the whip coral and does not sit still. The fact that it's almost transparent doesn't help either. If there is a shortage of males or females, they can change their 'gender'. They don't guard eggs, everything goes as it is, with the current. They even keep the whip coral clean.
Biography,
I live in Merchtem-Belgium and have been working as an independent physiotherapist for more than 40 years. During my internship as a student kiné in Israel 1978, I came into contact with diving during a week-end trip to Eilat on the Red Sea. This diving experience..
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