weekly gallery vol. 1

A Coral Goby
on a Christmas Tree Worm

This tiny goby lives among the branches of Acropora coral,whose size is just 6mm!
It's impossible to photograph without super micro system.
A Christmas Tree Worm often lives among the branches of Acropora coral,too.
I wanted to take both in one frame.
But the Coral goby doesn't live on it.The goby only passes through it.
So I focused on the Christmas Tree Worm and waited for the chance intently.
Watching the behavior of this goby,it looks like a bird on a branch.
It hops from tentacle to tentacle and vanishes into branches.
After a long time underwater bird watching,finally I succeeded to get the photo.

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