Last month I started a new feature: – the Month in Review, Reef Edition. And so, with no further ado, let’s take a look at what happened in April, 2013:
The best shot of the month goes to Cyg & Ceti: a mid-water clip from their mating dance:
Elsewhere on the reef last month:
Lots of algae meant a need for additions to the clean-up crew. This time, that meant large turbo snails and also nassarius snails, which spend most of their time burrowed in the sand and emerge at feeding time to clean up the aquarium floor.
(They’re fully aquatic, but can survive for short periods out of the water. This one went into the reef as soon as I took this portrait.)
The new porcelain crabs, Face and Hugger, made a happy home in the anthelia coral, and this shot of Face with feeding fans extended was a no-brainer for “best photos of the month”:
And last, but certainly not least, Emperor Maximus Angryfish was up to his usual shenanigans–disapproving of everyone and everything that met his gaze:
