Last week we found a small male black hairy Frogfish … and when coming back again this week, he already found a new “Hairy Girlfriend”. On this fantastic dive, we not only saw these two lovers, but also two more Hairy Frogfish on the same site. Let’s hope they make lot’s of small Hairy Frogfish Babies 😉
Blackwater Dives are all about the weird and wonderful. Strange larval fish that you haven’t seen before, little crustaceans seemingly just floating around, and hunting squids are all part of the regular sightings we get Read more…
It’s a dream photograph for many, capturing that moment when a frogfish chooses to yawn. It happens very quickly so your reflexes have to be on point, and it doesn’t happen very often. Sometimes divers Read more…
As you can tell by the title of this blogpost, today we are going to be delving deeper into Seahorses! They are a fun subject, although sometimes very camera shy. Let’s go through some interesting Read more…
3 Comments
Bob Bruner · February 11, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Some say you can only detect the sex of frogfish is by dissecting the gonads — What is the basis for your sex determination?
nadlembehresort · February 11, 2012 at 10:41 pm
HI Bob,
the basis of the sex termination is in this case the size. You can actually see that if you scroll down the page of the link you posted. there you can see courting striated frogfish and the mal is the smaller one.
Bob Bruner · February 11, 2012 at 10:21 pm
http://www.frogfish.ch/frogfish-reproduction.html
The link is the source of sex ID by gonad disection.
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