Caught him finally! Pic of scooter blenny "display"
 

My male scooter will come to the glass and put on a little "show", opening his mouth and twitching/spreading his fins at me as if to say "get away from my tank, lady!" Or maybe he is hitting on me! :D
You can't really predict when he will do it, your hand or face or the baster close to the glass has no bearing. But the only sure thing is if I get the camera, he stops and is back to his pod hunting like nothing ever happened.

I was taking some other pictures and mostly ignoring him when he decided to put on the act. I didn't have too much time to think about camera settings, just tried to get focus as quickly as possible. Here's the one shot I got!

[IMG]http://www.projectbat.com/Aquarium/scooterdisplay.jpg[/IMG]

Camera is a Canon XTI, was in shutter priority mode 1/100sec, f5.6, ISO800, manual focus w/kit 18-55 lens. I did adjust levels in post processing because it was dark at that shutter speed. It still looks dark on my desktop monitor, but too light on my laptop. I guess I have some monitor calibrating to do. lol

Really cool fish! Nice photo :)

yeah great shot. didnt know they were that colorful. I also love your avatar.

awesome shot! He put on a great display.

That's a great fish!

Thank you! They are not really striking colorful fish compared to the classic mandarin and I think they are underappreciated. The deep purple in the face is only visible during this flashing behavior. Otherwise, he is just plain old brown, fins are usually collapsed flat.

Non-reefing visitors ask "what is that lizard in there crawling on the bottom?" :lol: