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  1. Electrokate

    My Banner Day

    Congratulations! That is so great... I am glad they are cites protected too after watching scores of them die in fish stores, it was out of control. I had wondered why they stopped appearing. Figured they were fished out or the stores got a clue that most die from the shipping. Captive bred is...
  2. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    You want it? (: He is a really cool fish, and I would love to try breeding them someday but now is not the time or place. The green color is amazing, sometimes he turns very dark-almost black. Kate
  3. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Coral BEAUTY So anyways, about the coral beauty... was at the wholesaler and spotted one with almost no orange. Pondered it for about a minute before I decided it was mine. This fish still has thin stripes of orange in the center of it's body and magenta around the belly, and orange on the pect...
  4. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Coral BEAUTY Been awhile since posting... much has happened. Went to the Big Island (Hawaii itself) twice and took so many pictures I don't know what to do with them all. Have color corrected and posted some of them here: kate.munat.com The snorkeling there kicks Oahu's butt for coral, it's...
  5. Electrokate

    Best Places To Visit in Oahu, Hawaii

    Hey, you go yet? I live here now, was in Oly. I think you can bring fish back with you as checked luggage but it would be easier to have it shipped to you. What I would buy... well that would be a hard call. Prices are not much better than on the mainland unless you buy Kellogii seahorses which...
  6. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    I miss you too Susie, sucks being so isolated. I really can't compare snorkeling with keeping tanks, it'd be impossible. Our aquariums don't usually do a great job of replicating nature what with the species all being from different origins and not likely to be near eachother in most cases. It's...
  7. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    We went out this AM but the tide was really out and we didn't get far... so I guess I should post the photos from last week first though (: Here are some random shots. The one with the puffer is nicer in its original state, I cropped off as much as possible to get the picture down to 100K which...
  8. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    I kind of wish I was back in my fish basement too sometimes... except when the power was out. I would have lost everything. When I get back will have to buy a generator. If you need frags pm me, my friend Josh has that tank and also his tank is pretty amazing, I got a lot of my corals from him...
  9. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Ok, last friday we went to Hanauma again and had a pretty good day. It was super early so the light wasn't the best but you kind of have to go at dawn or you won't get in unless you are on a bus/tour. Plus that is when the fish are out. Even saw an octopus, though I didn't get a picture of it...
  10. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    I followed a green dragon wrasse for quite a while, it posed over and over and not one picture is in focus (kicking self) Here is my best effort... much photoshop applied. Also saw a lot of orange shoulder tangs midway between the yellow stage and the grey stage, they were really beautiful...
  11. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Well, we did go out yesterday... (: I got a few pictures. Coral here is sparse, mostly small pocilloporas and encrusting porites or montipora, at least close in where we go. Have not seen one leather coral anywhere though they are rumored to exist. There are blue and green zoanthids, brown...
  12. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    We went out twice with undercharged batteries and got 4 pictures before the camera died. Still kicking myself over Hanauma which was spectacular. It was just before full moon so the fish were getting ready to spawn, males had unusual color depth and pattern and we saw some fish not usually seen...
  13. Electrokate

    sort of sad

    what town is this in? Maybe you can post under the livestock wanted? "Wanted: intelligent aquarist to offer maintenance contract to idiots killing fish" (: I am doing maintenance now on fish only tanks, it's neither all that hard nor all that expensive without the coral. They sound like a...
  14. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Wailupe beach This day was not a good shoot... lots of fishermen were there first so I couldn't go far out, there was a ton of debris, and not as many fish as the first time. Got a few shots though. Bryzoans and debris covered most everything. I did find a few damaged but pretty Pocillopora...
  15. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Thanks! This camera has its limitations but for the money it's pretty decent. I'd get a Nikon D70 w/ underwater housing, strobe etc etc but I don't have that kind of money. (: and if I did I'd be too chicken to take it in the water. This camera has some problems with noise in areas that lack...
  16. Electrokate

    Electrokate's Hawaiian pix

    Hi, I just got a new toy and though I haven't gotten used to it yet thought I would post a few pix. It's an Intova 6 megapixel underwater camera. I snorkel but don't scuba so it's going to have limited usage but it's so far a ton of fun. I took it to Poipuu Beach on Kauai last weekend and didn't...
  17. Electrokate

    gunnel ID/pholis species

    Rex isn't kept with other fish unless it's to augment his diet (: Sometimes he gets a lizardfish or hermit crab from the beach up the street. His last owner had him with 2 devil scorpionfish, a barracuda and a grouper. I am a little confused by some of the posts here... probably from the use of...
  18. Electrokate

    something a little different?

    Nice work! I am in Hawaii and trying to figure out how to do something similar. Here liverock is illegal without a permit which nobody gets... and I do tank maintenance which has it's own even worse laws like we can't put livesand in tanks. We have been trying to figure out how to make...
  19. Electrokate

    gunnel ID/pholis species

    Well... that's the whole reason I wrote. It has pectorals (: Looked up the carpet eel on fishbase and it really does look like that though... both fish are fascinating. This guy sticks his head out of the water to look around and begs with his chin on the edge of the tank. Would that be more a...
  20. Electrokate

    gunnel ID/pholis species

    Hi, I aquired an "eel" on my job doing tank maintenance, it was basically in a leaking tank the owner wanted torn down and was going to be tossed in the bay here in Oahu. Since the owner said the fish was from Indonesia... Nuff said eh? Hawaii has enough foreignfish already. The "eel" has been...
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