Notebook of dive at IZU -life-

LIFE

We can see various kind of fish and animal in the sea water at izu. Sometimes we meet the impressive mode of life of animal. I categorize following mode from birth to death of fish and sea animal.

Birth,Egg Laying
Eating
Love
Fight
Symbiosis
Death
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Birth,Egg laying

Egg laying and Birth are beginning of life.

Spawning of sea anemone

When I saw this scene I didn't understand what this was. It looked like sea anemones was catching some salpa. Later I confirmed this with some expert and he taught me it was egg laying.
DATA:Nov/2000 at Ose cape ;769-19
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The place egg laying

There are some trees for spawning bed in dive spot. Squids gather around the trees for spawning.
DATA:Jun/2001 at Ose cape ;781-23
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Egg laying

Newly spawned eggs of squid are colored in white. I wonder why it is showy white color.
DATA:Jul/2000 at Ose cape ;759-14
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Wrasse around egg laying

This wrasse is aiming to prey on squid. Please look at his eagle eye.
DATA:Mar/1992 at Ose cape ;166-16
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Eating

Fish and sea animal spend most of their time eating.

Catching

The squid has a part of fish. It goes away slowly.
DATA:Apr/1994 ;411-24
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Eating salpa

Several filefish are swimming around the same area. At first I didn't know what they were doing. As getting closer I understood they were eating jelly fish or salpa.
DATA:May/2003 ;819-34
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In a line

Striped catfish eels are searching for food in a line.
DATA:Sep/1993 ;355-20
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Calm and quiet afternoon

A lot of Mullets are moving in front of me. Are they eating something under the gravel?
DATA:Dec/2002 ;806-35
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Love

Love is for the future of themselves. They should create the next generation.

Hiding

At first I thought that the crab was putting on seaweed.
DATA:Jan/2002 ;789-17
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Battle for love

After I come colser, I could find the other crab was hidingunder the crab.
DATA:Jul/1994 ;445-29
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Ejaculation of wrasse

I find strange motion of wrasse going up and down. After few second I understood it is ejaculation.
DATA:Aug/2002 at IOP ;800-35a
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Fight

They fight on instinct. Every fish fights with their own mouth. And they open their back fins wide so that they can be seen bigger than usual.

Keep territory

Snakefish were fighting. One snakefish had his own territory. The other snakefish came close. Then they opened their mouths wide and chased each other.
DATA:Sep/1995 ;500-12
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Wide open

Wrasses open their mouth wide against each other.
DATA:Dec/1999 ;745-23
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Biting rockfish

Two rockfish are fighting. In this picture, the right rockfish is biting the left one.
DATA:Jun/2003 ;817-30b
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After biting

Then the right rockfish kicked the other out of his area.
DATA:Jun/2003 ;817-31a
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Symbiosis

There are a lot of cases living together.

Anemonefish

Anemonefish spend their childhood being surrounded by sea anemone so that they become immune to the poison of sea anemone.
DATA:Dec/1991 ;147-0E
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Cleaner fish

Cleaner fish are working on a gold reeffish. The gold reeffish looks like comfortable.
Place : OSE CAPE
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Hermit crab

This hermit crab put on sea anemoner on his body. I'm not sure about what he gains by doing this.
DATA:Aug/1993 ;352-14
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Goby and shrimp

The goby and the shrimp live together in one hole. The shrimp makes their hole. And the goby watches if an enemy approached.
DATA:Apr/1993 ;297-18
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Death

Death is the end of the line but it's for others. Death is one of the event in creature's circuration.

through Dead fish

The dead fish lie down on the bottom of the sea. Grubfish eat it. While we stay in the sea, we don't watch dead fishes. Dead bodies are recycled by other animal or bacteria.
DATA:Aug/2003 ;819-10
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Broken wall

Typhoon brings big wave. There is pool near the sea shore in IOP. After the typhoon, we found the part of wall at the pool were broken. That day, we learned that "death comes unexpectedly".
DATA:Izu Oceanic Park Dec/2002 ;20021230
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Unexpected death

"Death comes unexpectedly" ; My daughter found dead globefish in the crack of broken wall. The dead globefish taught me this.
DATA:Izu Oceanic Park Dec/2002 ;20021230
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Life cycle

A salpa lay down on the bottom. Hermit crab is eating salpa. We can't see often death fish and invertebrate due to a lot of cleaners on the bottom. As you know, each death is for the next generation as nature life cycle.
DATA:Feb/2003 ;280-04
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Notebook of dive at IZU

Index of LIFE