Shrimp Goby Quest

There in the sand bottom and coral rubble, ignored by most divers because there's "nothing there", one can find a number of holes, a goby at the door of each one, sitting and observing their view of the world. By drifting along slowly and looking more closely at each goby, a sufficiently stealthy diver can observe movement in the hole and a moment later, a little cloud of sand rubble emerges, pushed along by a shrimp. Excitement! We saw the goby and shrimp team in a nature film, and here it was in real life. Once this treasure was discovered, my journeys along the sand bottom became even slower as I quested to capture the pair with my camera. Time and again I tried to film them together, but always just as the shrimp was due to appear again the goby would flee and I'd have to hurry to catch back up with the group. Sometimes the other divers would stop to obsserve a "more interesting" animal like a large morey in the rocks and I could take my time, and finally got a shot that I thought had them both. After the dive, sitting on the boat and reviewing the movies I'd taken, I watched and said "there's the goby... AND THERE'S THE SHRIMP! I GOT IT!" Drawing head turns from the other divers. :) And on the one dive I missed, Curtis decided to try his hand at it as well, and came back with a quite nice video of the pair.

From ThailandDiving