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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 20:38 |
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Our house seahorse, Sheldon found a wife. We expect the happy family to become pregnant soon. By the way, did you know that among sea horses is the male that carries the babies? Well, you might be surprised; in the animal kingdom is not the only one, and especially in the underwater realm fatherhood is carried out seriously. Another example is the Sergeant Major, although he doesn’t carry the eggs, he takes care of them. You can see purple patches of eggs in vertical surfaces and the Sergeant Major colored blue, instead of its regular yellow, guarding the eggs fiercely. |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:38 |
From January 23rd till January 31st we will be attending the BOOT Show in Düsseldorf, from February 6th and 7th we will be in Houten (The Netherlands) to attend Duikvaker, and from February 12th till February 13th we will be present at the Texas Dive Show in Dallas.
So… If you are in the neighborhood we would love to say hi to you, and present you our show specials. We hope to see you there! |
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Fish Behavior at the Belmar House Reef |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:14 |
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There is a lot of action in our reef, if only you take a closer look to fish behavior you will be able to discover this. Here we can see two fishes swimming together, a queen parrot fish and a trumpet fish. This is called shadowing, is a specific hunting strategy from the trumpet fish. This fish is a predator, its name derives from the fact that he opens his mouth very widely getting the shape of a trumpet, producing a big suction and ingesting the prey. Little fish are afraid of trumpet fish and they swim away or hide when they spot it.
Parrot fish are algae eaters, they play a very important role in keeping the balance in the reef, by eating the algae, they clean up substrate for the coral to be able to colonize. So, how do we explain this connection between the trumpet fish and the parrot fish? The trumpet fish actually hides behind the parrot fish, as the parrot fish approaches the reef for grazing in the algae, the little fish around are not scared, because they know it is a vegetarian guy. Too bad for them, when the trumpet fish is shadowing parallel to the parrot fish, in a heartbeat it comes to the front, and there it goes, lunch! 
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Sheldon the Seahorse: Belmar’s House Reef Seahorse |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 19:11 |
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We are really happy Sheldon has been on our house reef for over 6 months already, seems like he likes the Belmar reef. It is a beautiful white longsnout seahorse, at least 4 inches long. It is always moving around in the soft corals near the red buoy right in front of Belmar Apartments.
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Buoyancy Clinic: Educational & Fun! |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 18:53 |
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When you want to dive on Bonaire you need to buy a marine park tag, so you support the Marine Park on Bonaire. More than 20% of the total land area of Bonaire and 100% of the waters surrounding Bonaire and Klein Bonaire are protected as Parks. Of course buying a tag is a very good start but you can do even more to protect the reef and also make you a better diver.
Take a buoyancy class at Belmar Diving for only $45! Our instructors are very knowledgeable, patient and of course it’s going to be a lot of fun as well! We just got some new shapes in the water so at the end of your class you will be able to go through them without any problems.
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