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Moving from 60mm macro to 30mm Macro lenses? Maybe?

Started Mar 24, 2021 | Questions thread
Architeuthis Regular Member • Posts: 491
Re: Moving from 60mm macro to 30mm Macro lenses? Maybe?

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

kelpdiver wrote:

Architeuthis - if it were my wife, she'd want to use a 200mm lens for the triggerfish. She doesn't trust the teeth on any of them, never mind the vindictive Titans.

I was warned about Titan Triggerfish the first time I dove in Moorea. Since I had just seen a story about a Japanese diver attacked by one, I took the warning seriously. The fish had bit a hole right in the middle of his big dome.

My dive group spent some time watching one bite off chunks of coral, crunch it up to get at whatever, and spit out the crumbs.

Titan triggers are not generally hostile. Only when they breed, they bravely protect their nest (usually in flat sandy areas) against invaders, including scubadiver. One has to strictly avoid to come near their nest. Usually accidents happen when divers, who do not see the nest, dive few meters over the nest. Triggers can be persistent attackers and follow the invader, even when they already give heel money ...

The one in the photo was definitely not breeding, just strawling around the reef. It came close only once, appeared from some cover and presumably did not see me first, and quickly disappeared again...

Wolfgang

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