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So glad you enjoyed it♪ Thank you so much for your comments. Sardine are sometimes attacked by hungry amberjacks then we see sardine run, which is cruel for sure but spectacular. There were a couple of Japanese amberjack loosely swimming but they took no interest 😇Lucky for sardine〜🐟🍀

@@Kiksy I guess sometimes even bigger fish aren't interested in sardines for a meal or a snack. I'm glad the jacks weren't interested in them or you.

Hello~🐰♪ Trust you had a lovely Easter holiday🐣 So glad you enjoyed the video📹 Tago is on the west coast of Izu Peninsula (South of Tokyo). The nudis without name tags are @0:49 Nembrotha lineolata and @1:45 Thuridilla splendens. Long legged bugs really make me go eww and so does spider-crab unfortunately 😭 haha.

@@Kiksy Thanks for the additional information and the Easter wishes! It never ceases to amaze me that snails that live on land generally look so drab and yucky, but snails that live in the ocean are so beautiful. Long legged bugs like spiders make me go eww too, but put them in the ocean and I feel completely different about them.

🤣いや〜、めっちゃ内容濃かったですよね🐠🐠。ツアー中は大変お世話になりました🙇‍♂️

大変お世話になりました🤗ツリーまで連れて行ってもらって嬉しかったです🎄皆様年末年始お元気でお過ごし下さい🎍㊗️🎌🐈 来年も宜しくお願いします🤲🥺

It is Gabrielle Aplin's "Don't Know What I Want" from her latest album called "Phosphorescent"🎶

@@Kiksy Thanks for letting me know about the music.

🙋‍♀️I just took a look at Caribbean honeycomb - whoa they do have honeycomb patterns🐝 I actually don't know if Thornback cowfish change the colours but I've never seen them do😀

@@Kiksy They're really cool fish. I remember watching one for a few minutes, and the color of the honeycomb pattern changed from brown to a beautiful shade of green to an aqua shade of blue back to brown again. The color changes were instantaneous. It blew my mind. Honeycomb cowfish can also lighten and darken, but that's not nearly as impressive as the complete color change. Unlike octopuses, they can't change texture, just color.

​@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 Whoa, that 's absolutely fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing such an amazing experience you had ✨

Thank you so much!! Fire goby was rare to be seen a few years back, but they are easily found in Izu peninsula now. I was happy to find the Toothy goby♪ I go over the corals and look hard at them👀, hoping to see anyone there.

Thank you and hope all your family and friends are well and not affected by hurricane Ian. Stay safe🙏

Hello~👋 thank you so much for your kind comments. Really appreciate it as always. I’m glad you enjoyed the video, although I need to get improved much more. Most fish in my videos are found between 98ft and 46ft. The deeper we go, the less time we can spend there.

Thank you so much for your kind comments🙏 Baby inflator filefish are incredibly cute💕As to the whip coral goby, actually someone else found it😉I am glad those labels work👍 We dive in the same sites many times, but it is different every time. I hope to be able to entertain by posting more videos🎥

Thank you so much for your lovely comments🤗There’s a Yuzu citrus tree in balcony and Swallowtails come lay their eggs. Found 8 caterpillars 🐛 this year and this Black swallowtail was one of them (rest were all Asian swallowtails). They’ve eclosed and flown away~🦋 🦋

@@Kiksy Lucky you! Thanks for sharing the experience with us.

有難うございます！めっちゃ楽しかったです♪次回もよろしくお願いします🙇

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much for watching. The feather star caught us completely by surprise! They hardly move and look like plants all the time. The shape of it when swimming is basically like my bad hair day.

@@Kiksy It made me think of a feather duster, which I assume is how it got its name. If only I could find one that didn't live in water and liked to clean furniture!

So glad you like it😄 Thank you for letting me know another name of white-spotted puffer; I've added "stripebelly puffer" to the chapter name👍As to the thornback cowfish, I was thinking "Does he do that to hide his cute butt from me, or, is it easier to swim in the relatively strong current?" Whatever the reason, I found it super cute💕

Our underwater guide may have wanted to show us the Jawfish closing the lid on his nest. It was incredibly cute, tho. About the nudis, if I were to add one speech bubble, I would've put it above the left one and say something like "Omg, leave my behind alone!" haha 😄

Thank you so much for watching! I think bigspotted triggerfish is another name of clown triggerfish.

Back then I was far worse than now and really struggled shooting videos under the water. The cave is really beautiful when the condition is good. The Lionfish was really funny. I was saying to him really loud like, "Heeeeeey!! Heeeeeey!! Play with meeeeee!! Helloooooooo!!!" He must have been annoyed😂 @2:40 Phenacovolva brevirostris @3:27 Juvenile King demoiselle

@@Kiksy I've taken some really terrible still photos of glassy sweepers in the Caribbean. Sweepers always live in places where there's insufficient light, and tend to swim in such tight packs that it's hard to get a decent shot of even one individual in the school. I thought my photography skills improved when I switched to a digital camera with some degree of zoom, but I seem to be backsliding over the last few years. I think part of it is that without a limit to how many pictures one can take with a roll of film, I'll try to get a picture of anything, no matter how bad it may turn out to be. There are times that I've taken 20-30 photos of the same fish, hoping that at least one photo will be decent! If only all fish would pose like hawkfish do, preferably with nice backgrounds!

Done the homework 😉 @1:41 Harlequin sandsmelt @3:00 Amblyeleotris japonica @3:05 Marbled rockfish (left) and Bicolor anthias @3:30 Spotted knifejaw

@@Kiksy Thank you for identifying those fish for me. None of them were in my fish ID book. I wonder if some of the fish you've seen are endemic to the waters around Japan, and the authors decided not to include many endemic fish. Apparently the spotted knifejaw can also be seen in the northwestern Hawaiian islands as well as Japan, brought there by the Kuroshio Current.

@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 I took another look at the spotted fish @3:05 and think that is Marbled rockfish. You even study Kuroshio Current?!?!?! Aren't you amazing?!?!?!?! Possibly because of the global warming, the fish we see are also changing, so, those fish on my videos might also come near you😉

@@Kiksy Even the less glamourous fish like that rockfish can be interesting. As far as the Kuroshio Current is concerned, the spotted knifejaw isn't listed in my Tropical Pacific Reef Fish ID book, but it is in my Hawaiian Fishes ID book, and the author stated that spotted knifejaw larvae in Hawaii probably came from Japan via that current. Because Hawaii is so remote, everything that was there when the first humans arrived came by wind, water, or wings. Creatures had to exist in the larval stage until they arrived in the Hawaiian Islands. If they got to another stage in the middle of the ocean, they probably didn't have anything to eat and died. (I didn't figure this out on my own - it was something a naturalist told me, and I found it so interesting that it stayed in my mind.) In 2019, I saw a finescaled triggerfish off the west coast of the Big Island of Hawaii, which I believe is also a Japanese import. As a result of its remoteness/isolation from large landmasses, Hawaii has a lower variety of reef fish than other Pacific Islands or the Caribbean. I assume that the isolation is also the reason that it has a very high rate of endemic fish. What you said about global warming changing the fish you see where you dive is both interesting and alarming. My husband and I went to Acadia National Park in Maine (northeastern USA) a few years ago, and the ranger who led a hike we took talked about the dilemma of what to do if they had a major fire in the park - should they plant the kinds of trees that were in the park many, many years before the fire, some of which would have trouble existing in a now warmer environment, or should they plant trees that are native to more southern parts of the US and would better withstand the new weather pattern? I had never thought about that issue until he brought it up. There's a line in the Joni Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi" - "Don't it always seem to go that we don't know what we've got 'til it's gone?" We need to enjoy the variety of life around us while we can, and try to protect our planet to maintain the amazing biodiversity that exists. As for seeing the marine creatures that you're enjoying, I live in landlocked Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), so I'm only likely to see them in an aquarium. I looked up that island you mentioned (started with an M, I can't remember the whole name off the top of my head), and it does look like a remarkable place to go, so I'm going to keep it in mind if I ever go to Japan.

@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 Thank you so much for your reply. I am really impressed and grateful. Your story of Hawaiian fish being so endemic, together with the history, is very interesting! Climate change is frightening and taking its toll; affect agriculture, forestry, fishery, basically everything that’s important to people’s lives. Storm Eunice in UK last week really is hard to believe, as we’ve never had anything like that before. Typhoons in recent years in Asia develop faster and bigger because of high sea surface temperature in South. Sunfish used to be seen at one of my dive sites in Izu Peninsula, but they are not spotted for the past few years since the water temp is too high for them (they need 16℃ while it is about 18℃ around dive point). On the contrary, Whale shark and Humpback whale came to my other dive site (yes, they came when I was NOT there!!) from warm South, which is for us really a miracle. Young tropical fish sometimes arrive with Kuroshio and they used to disappear when water temp drops, but they may be even surviving the Winter as we see some grown bigger in Spring. Two-stripe damselfish used to be rare where I dive, but they are almost on every table coral now. I thought some are big enough to make sashimi out of it. The island I mentioned was Miyakojima. If time allows, I would like you to look up Ogasawara as well just for fun 😊 Ogasawara www.japan-guide.com/e/e8200.html P.s. I checked Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” (apology for my ignorance). I was moved by the lyrics: “They took all the trees, Put ’em in a tree museum, Then they charged the people, A dollar and a half just to see ’em”. I was surprised to know it was written in the 70’s and shivered to imagine what’s ahead of us.

@0:53 male of Sea goldie (sex change). Orange ones are all female. @1:04 Primovula tigris @1:39 Whip coral goby

@@Kiksy How interesting! I've never seen an anthias, so it didn't occur to me that those were anthias. I should have figured out that they were too small to be some of the things that I was guessing they might be. Like the slugs, why are marine snails so beautiful compared to those that live on land?

I think it's Bluespotted boxfish

@@Kiksy I had considered that, but the one you saw was much paler than the female spotted boxfishes that I've seen, and the spots looked larger than those on the ones I've seen.

Well spotted👀! Yep, that's Barracuda👌

I think you defo know a lot more than I do! 😃 Yes, I think the former is Filefish (never seen Leafy filefish yet🍁) and the latter Pixy hawkfish♪🐙

@@Kiksy My mistake. On 2nd look, I guess that's a scrawled filefish. I've seen them many times, and don't have a good excuse for misidentifying it. I find your videos very intriguing, and full of fish that I would like to see.

Thank you so much for enjoying the videos🎥 I appreciate your knowledge and passion for marine life, thanks to which my videos are saved from being unnoticed 😂

@@Kiksy Thank YOU very much for introducing me to so many beautiful fish, and for answering my questions. I never realized that Japan had such interesting marine life until I started watching your videos. Many, if not most, of the fish in your videos are ones that I haven't seen in other tropical Pacific videos on You Tube, and some of the fish you identified aren't featured in the tropical Pacific fish ID book that I own. If I ever go to Japan, I'll have to go snorkeling there (I'm a snorkeler, not a diver).

For snorkelling, I imagine some remote islands off Okinawa would be really nice, as underwater vis is 65ft at worst, and it can get up to 164ft at best (really wanna go there one day). My cousin went to Miyakojima for snorkelling and sent me stunning pics to make me jealous😂 I really like how you enjoy watching marine creatures and being so enthusiastic about identifying them with flicking thru encyclopaedias📚 Not sure if all my mediocre videos deserve your wonderful comments to be honest, but will try to work harder to get better😤 Thank you so much for watching!

Your knowledge of marine life is amazing👌

@@Kiksy It's my copy of Reef Fish Identification: Tropical Pacific that's amazing, although it's not as good as Humann & DeLoach's Florida Caribbean Bahamas ID book due to there being so many different fish in the tropical Pacific that it was hard to get them all into one book. When I view an interesting video, I grab my fish ID book and sometimes check the internet to see if I can find out more about it.

Totally agree 🐌♪♪

I think it’s called Bubble-tip anemone.

Arrgh thank you so much for your lovely comments😊 No, the moray didn’t eat them hahaha, but I thought the shrimp was cleaning moray?! 🤔

@@Kiksy I hadn't considered that possibility.

Thank you so much for watching as well as for lovely comments👌Took your advice and added Stargazer💫 and Lionfish🐾 to the description box😃Please take care and stay well🙋

Seems like Campbell's goby☺️

Oh〜 you are too kind😭 I've been really rubbish at shooting videos but hope to get improved 😁

@@Kiksy If you want to see what rubbish really looks like, I've taken thousands of bad pictures of beautiful fish!

@@mariashaffer-gordon3561 Oh Noooo don’t think so 😉 Perhaps cameras don’t do justice 📸 The important thing would be that you enjoy yourself♪♫👌🐠 Take care~

@@Kiksy While I'd like to blame my equipment, I'm afraid it's mostly my photographic skills that are lacking. I do find that photographing what I see adds to my enjoyment, especially when I come home and look at my pictures on my computer monitor. There have been so many, "What the heck is THAT?!" moments underwater. When I come home, I consult ID books and websites and find out what THAT was, and knowing what something is sometimes leads me to want to find out more about it.

I think that explains why you are so incredibly well informed; very industrious! I, on the other hand, can be very lazy in that respect, but certainly want to be able to identify more. When I finally get perfect neutral buoyancy, the video footage will also be much, much better 🎥(when will that be ??? *sigh*)

メガネカラッパ🦀カワイイね😍 A Happy New Year 🎍🍶🎌🗻㊗️

ツバメウオ、最後に集合してる所少し撮れてたんですが🎥残念ながら映えませんでした〜😭長回しした所は何故かTime lapseモードになってて、100倍速で撮れてて笑いましたー🤣コメありがとうございますッ❣️

癒されますよね〜😍💕

Thank you 😀

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