New Orleans Rock Fish

This has to be the ugliest fish in the world.  It is from the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. We were visiting this favorite tourist spot with our grandchildren this weekend.  I suppose they call it a Rock Fish -- I didn't read the label.  The Aquarium is at the foot of Canal Street by the Mississippi River Ferry dock.

Not clowning around

The clownfish and the sea anemone -- a classic symbiotic relationship (check this Wikipedia article).

At the Aquarium of the Americas at the foot of Canal Street in New Orleans -- both do what they have been doing for thousands of years - the clownfish draws other fish near to the anemone who sting the preditors with venemous tentacles. The fish helps feed the anemones and help with it's other hygiene habits. Interesting story of different life forms that have learned to live together. Humans have for the most part learned that lesson, but the semesters is not quite over.

--steve buser

Clownfish, sea anemones, symbiosis, Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, Louisian

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Nosey?

Suppose you had to swim around all your life with weird appendages to guide your journey.  On top of that, you had a face that no one could take serious.

You'd be happy like this fellow at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, wouldn't you?

Of course you would. I suspect that's why you some time get down about the life that was dealt you. You can dream, though. "What if, by some chance..  some very big chance....."

--steve buser

Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, Louisiana