The rarest of the rare! This holy-grail dream fish is a larval-stage #monkfish, aka #goosefish.
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while diving at night over water several thousand feet deep, several miles offshore from Kumejima, Okinawa.
#larvalfish #blackwater #gug #deepseafish
#aiimages #iconoplasm #AIArt #AIArtist #AIArtwork #GenArt #DigitalArt #AIArtGallery #AIGeneratedArt #AIArtCommunity #monster #horrorart #creativeai #synthart #lovecraft #gug #drugs #pills #mushrooms #kadath
Gug With Drugs
A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen!
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa
#diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater
What a dedicated dad!
The male tiger #jawfish holds the clutch of eggs in his mouth until the behbehies hatch, ~8-9 days later. I usually find them in small groups of 3-5 individuals, each in their own private burrow, spread over an area of ~6’ or so.
#tulamben #gug #fisheggs
Morual's Father - GUG
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Overpowered Gugs, Morula's Father and how everything went south! ^^
Type anything, generate a creature. Outwit, ou...
#GUG #Demo #Gaming #Game #Gameplay #Review #NathanGraham #Indie #IndieGame #IndieDev #Morula #Nathan #Graham
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The Jellyfish Hunter!
So here we have a pelagic #nudibranch, #Phylliroe sp., who manages to capture #jellyfish & siphonophores.
Shot using scuba, over water that’s ~2000’ deep, while drifting with the plankton at night, offshore from Kume, Okinawa.
#pelagicnudibranch #blackwater #gug
#Lobsters go through an early life stage called #Phyllosoma where they’re planktonic, and they’re constantly on the lookout for a “life raft” - often something with stingy bits, like this muave stinger #jellyfish.
#lobster #blackwaterdiving #deepseacreatures #gug
Imagine wearing a #jellyfish as a helmet!?!
Well, that’s exactly what this juvenile jack is doing! Mostly immune to its sting, the jack has taken the jellyfish prisoner.
Shot using #scuba, out over the deep abyss, drifting at night.
#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #scubadiving #gug
The most beautiful #snail ever to exist!
Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles
#blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug
GUG
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Welcome to the Gugiverse! ^^
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When it comes to my Aliens Collection, the weirder the better - and few fish are weirder than the larval-stage #Lamprogrammus #cuskeel
#deepsea #deepseacreatures #deepwater #deepseafish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
A male #cardinalfish rotates his brood of eggs.
#mouthbrooder #mouthbrooding #bali #amed #amedbali #tulamben #tulambenbali #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
Spent 30+ minutes with this giant #mimicoctopus - of the dozens (hundreds?) I’ve encountered, this might be the biggest, with a legspan of >2’!
#octopus #thaumoctopusmimicus OK fine, I’ll tag #wunderpus just in case… #tulamben #amedbali #tulambenbali #bali #🐙 #gug #gugunderwater #chrisgug
A giant #Pteropod #seabutterfly, Corolla spectabilis, cruising through the nighttime open ocean.
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while drifting out over the deep abyss, at night, off Okinawa.
#corollaspectabilis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #kumejima #okinawa #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
A quick clip of the first-ever sighting of a bony-eared assfish (#Acanthonus armatus) in Okinawa!
#bonyearedassfish #assfish #acanthonusarmatus #deepseacreatures #deepseafish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
A larval-stage Brama pomfret clings to a ctenophore (comb jelly).
#pomfret #brama #bramidae #larvalfish #ctenophore #combjelly #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
I presume this is a type of Myctophidae lanternfish, but I’m not 100% sure.
TL ~2.5cm
Shot offshore from Palm Beach, FL in Feb2025
#lanternfish #myctophidae #deepseafish #fishlarvae #larvalfish #deepseacreatures #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
A big, beautiful, bebeh whalefish, drifting with the plankton over the nighttime abyss.
Body without the crazy “tapetail” is ~6cm
#whalefish #tapetail #deepseafish #deepwater #deepsea #deepseacreatures #larvalfish #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
#Ctenophores! There are soooo many types! Did you know some aren’t pelagic, but rather benthic, so the live on the bottom, or, in this case, attached to this sea star?!? The tentacles aren’t stingy, so yes, they’re safe to lick. 👅
#ctenophore #tulamben #gug #cheisgug #gugunderwater #fishnerd
Straight outta Arrakis
Like the worm riders in Dune, an imperator shrimp rides atop of this 3” nudibranch. They’ve stayed together in the same spot for 4 weeks now!
#nudibranch #symbiosis #imperatorshrimp #emperorshrimp #seaslug #gug #gugunderwater #chrisgug #tulamben #tulambenbali
I have a feeling that soon there is going to be a lot more of these little peanut-size #pelagic #heteropods! Everywhere I turned, there was another pair doing the horizontal no-pants romance dance.
#heteropoda #seaangel #seabutterfly #blackwaterdiving #okinawa #gugunderwater #gug #mollusk
1st photo: what NOT to do with an underwater camera.
2nd photo: for context to explain what the heck is going on.
#eel #moray #morayeel #gymnothorax #giantmoray #giantmorayreel #tulamben #tulambenbali #bali #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater
Finally downloaded the memory card from the past 8 days of shooting, and this is the very last frame, shot tonight while collecting my bonfire lights.
#squid #cephalopod #tulamben #bali #gug
While I don’t think anyone has made a specific designation between “larval” and “adult”, in the moorish idol, I’m going to label this one “post-larval”
#moorishidol #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
Ctenophores, more commonly called comb jellies, are pretty much everywhere in all oceans, but they’re incredibly hard to see during the day. But at night...
#combjelly #colloblasts #blackwaterdiving #blackwater #blackwaterphotography #okinawa #kume #kumejima #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
Crazy-looking larval cusk eel with an impressive external gut. We’re still not sure why having the intestines on the outside is advantageous, but there must be a good reason 🤔
TL ~2.5cm
#cuskeel #larvalfish #deepseafish #deepseacreatures #blackwaterdiving #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
How cute! This Bony-Eared Assfish has a pet amphipod!
And yes, that’s the actual name of this this #fish - the bony-eared #assfish #Acanthonus armatus
#cuskeel #bonyearedassfish #acanthonusarmatus #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #deepseafish #larvalfish #deepsea #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
Jellyfish helmet!
This larval-stage jack fish (aka trevally) is living inside the #jellyfish for protection against whatever might come his way.
#jackfish #trevalley #jellyfish #🪼 #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #okinawa #kume #kumejima
One of the smallest Armored Sea Robins that I’ve ever seen - its body a little larger than a pea.
This is the same species featured in my Aliens Collection Print, “Alien #27”.
#armoredsearobin #searobin #larvalfish #deepseafish #blackwaterdiving #gurnard #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
