An aggregation of adults of this species near canopy algae next to an old tree stump roughly in the middle of what I call 'syngnathid hotspot',a mainly sand and scanty seagrass area off kiosk and NSLSC.
Hopefully not a re-submission. A very common but often overlooked inshore fish in many parts of SA particularly the gulfs.This one's @ 'hotspot' off jetty precinct's kiosk (NB: there are several tiny=juvenile grass cling-fish aligned along stems quite near subject, however I don't expect most viewers to confidently accept their presence.The most obvious and sharply focused cling-fish is directly below the weed whiting's abdomen, and I am 100% sure it is not artifact. I've often seen these tiny, very cryptic fish move short distances along sea-grass stems, and they often switch sides on a stem then peer back over an edge,making them very hard to photograph!)
Snorkelling Shelly Beach / the Bower
On SS Bonnie Dundee wreck 36 metres
2 old slide scans of an adult banded morwong at a WCC station in a big,open cave near cliff base at Western River via charter boat tender.In one pic a leatherjacket - which cannot be seen but was just beyond the subject's caudal fin(it is visible in another pic which however is not good enough to include!) - is queuing for a clean, in the other pic the Western Cleaner Clingfish hosts' cup sponge station is obvious even though no definite WCCs are visible.Depth of cave station is ~ 3-5 m, but most of the dive time was spent @ 10+ m. My buddy was Steve Reynolds of MLSSA. We only ascended to this cave because we saw the morwong visiting it regularly and thought it was a good way to get photos of the otherwise fast, restless and elusive morwong. (We'd not seen this morwong species in SA before that.)
photo courtesy of Stuart Robertson
This juvenile was quite happy eating....had a good look at the camera.