The individual with a yellow dorsal fin is a female.
There is a region called Mahachai not far from Bangkok in Thailand.
It is a quiet port town facing the sea. If you love fish, the name of this town will probably be familiar to you. This is because the wild betta was discovered in the brackish waters where Nipa palms and other trees grow, and it has become a very popular species among betta lovers. This fish, called Betta Mahachai, is relatively constantly imported to Japan and is popular.
If you're a train buff, you'll probably remember Mahachai Station. This station is very unusual, with food stalls selling vegetables right next to the tracks. When trains are not passing, the shops are even built on top of the tracks. When a train approaches, the stalls are hurriedly removed. It's dangerous to look at, but the residents here are used to it and coexist well with the railway. This is a rare sight, and it is a famous station that is sometimes featured on TV.
When surprised, it jumps as if bouncing on the surface of the water.
Run away to the opposite shore.
They eat diatoms on the surface.
The way he eats food while shaking his head from side to side
It's humorous.
The first time I visited this town was to collect Betta Mahachai and photograph their habitat. Since then, he has often guided friends who love betta fish to this town. He also came here to eat seafood and go shopping because fresh seafood was very cheap.
The town had become familiar to me, but one day I went further downstream from where the mangroves grew and found a small tidal flat. On the tidal flat, countless fiddler crabs are dancing and waving their claws, and some kind of mudskipper-like fish is jumping. When I looked closer, I realized that it was a mudskipper, slightly larger than a mudskipper and with numerous blue spots on the sides of its body.
In Japan, it is a rare fish that can only be seen in a part of the Ariake Sea in Kyushu. You can see it right in front of your eyes and nose. I never tire of watching them deftly walk around on the mud using their fins, shaking their heads as they eat algae on the mud. Occasionally, when two animals approach each other, they will spread their dorsal fins wide to threaten each other, and they will jump and fight.
The expression with puffed out cheeks is very adorable.
He doesn't seem to be very good at it.
As a photographer, I'm always itching to take pictures, but unfortunately I didn't bring my single-lens reflex camera with me. All he has on hand is a compact digital camera. As expected, even if he zooms in, he cannot catch a fish that fills the entire screen. Although they are less wary than Japanese mudskippers, if approached they will jump and run away or burrow into their burrows. It's tough waiting for mudskippers on the tidal flat under the hot sun, but it's a professional job to do something with the equipment you have.
In the scorching sunlight, I turned to stone so that the mudskippers wouldn't notice my presence. After waiting for a while, they appeared to be relieved and came out of their burrows, started feeding, and started fighting, all in their natural behavior.
Various species of highly developed fiddler crabs can be seen.
It will be done. It's fun to watch this crab.
For now, I would like to introduce the photos I took, but the limitations of compact digital cameras cannot be denied. Next time, I'd like to grab my SLR camera and go observe mudskippers.
