Night dive in the Galapagos Islands. Unhappy moray eels and happy crayfishs.

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The trip to Galapagos Islands has turned out for me very strange. As for the diver it was one of my most unforgettable underwater adventures by quantity and a variety of everything that I under water have met. And as the underwater photographer, I consider that I have come to full grief. Already several times I look through the finished shooting material, I understand what by and large and especially couldn't be shown. And so there is a wish...
With the underwater macrophoto at me always was "so-so". Well to do if it is impossible to me to look for under water all this underwater trifle in the form of beautiful the nudibranches and shrimps. And if I find something interesting, then it runs away from me earlier, than I manage to depict them.
Here and only night dive on Galápagos at the beginning I began very much for thinking standardly: couple of portraits of the sleeping fishes:

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Hermit-crab quite so nice and very richly dressed up in a fur coat:

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Little crab who has hidden from the importunate photographer in a coral hole:

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Couple of crabs who haven't managed to run away from me. Probably because we were strongly hungry:

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One shrimp couldn't disappear from me because of strong pregnancy:

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Here it not outstanding night immersion turned out. Until I haven't met this here a moray eel:

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Moray eel as moray eel. But when she has opened the mouth, it has turned out that she has huge problems with health... All upper palate at her has been simply covered by parasites!

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The crowd of isopods, the isopods of crustaceans, decided to feed on moray eels. This group of higher crustaceans is one of the most diverse and numerous on our planet. To date, more than ten thousand species have been described! Many of the isopod aquatic species will see a parasitic lifestyle. Here this poor morenka and has got "under distribution" these, in my opinion, vile parasites!
And no matter how I, as a photographer, did not like to shoot all sorts of small crustaceans-shrimp-crabs, this was not the case. It was very disgusting to see how these creatures gnawed poor moray eels! True, from the point of view of visualization of various types of symbiosis, this survey can be called very successful. More I have never seen such pictures.

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I still very much hope that there was some powerful dentist who cleaned the mouth of the moray eel, and still lives there, in the Galapagos in joy and health :)

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Great photos...

Photoshop guy here – retouched some of your pictures @photofreediver.
I hope you don't mind. I really like them.

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This fish scares, afraid of what we can eat ni ....

Nice photos:)

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I love the photos, watch those teeth.