Bob Ellis 🐟
@drfishcounter.bsky.social
Marine ecologist. Currently located in Florida.
Florida announces plan to reduce the number of children living to adulthood.
September 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Florida announces plan to reduce the number of children living to adulthood.
god fucking dammit
April 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
god fucking dammit
Found this video recently of tagging a black grouper at 90' in the Dry Tortugas. Felt appropriate for the moment: scientists working hard in the background while some flashy, aggresisve little fish steal the spotlight. Oh, and a sea whip waving in the current with nothing much to say.
April 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Found this video recently of tagging a black grouper at 90' in the Dry Tortugas. Felt appropriate for the moment: scientists working hard in the background while some flashy, aggresisve little fish steal the spotlight. Oh, and a sea whip waving in the current with nothing much to say.
Name your own Gulf! Thanks @mapquest.com gulfof.mapquest.com?name=No+Titl...
February 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Name your own Gulf! Thanks @mapquest.com gulfof.mapquest.com?name=No+Titl...
Whenever I see a list like this I can't help but be in awe of the scope of the US government and what $6.75T can actually buy. How much of what's happening can be explained by our individual failure to grasp just how much a trillion dollars is, or how big 335 million people actually is?
February 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Whenever I see a list like this I can't help but be in awe of the scope of the US government and what $6.75T can actually buy. How much of what's happening can be explained by our individual failure to grasp just how much a trillion dollars is, or how big 335 million people actually is?
If you see this, post a stingray
January 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you see this, post a stingray
On the 13th day of #fishmas we also celebrate #FlatsharkFriday with the southern stingray, Hypanus americanus! I found this one down in the Florida Keys and it let me get real close. Of course, I was at the bitey end, not the stingy end, an important distinction! Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
On the 13th day of #fishmas we also celebrate #FlatsharkFriday with the southern stingray, Hypanus americanus! I found this one down in the Florida Keys and it let me get real close. Of course, I was at the bitey end, not the stingy end, an important distinction! Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
On the 12th day of #fishmas a scamp grouper, Mycteroperca phenax! One of many female first sex-changing groupers that live in the Gulf of Mexico (aka, protogynous hermaphrodites). A common life history strategy that is thought to maximize lifetime reproductive output. Happy #25DaysofFishmas
December 13, 2024 at 12:54 AM
On the 12th day of #fishmas a scamp grouper, Mycteroperca phenax! One of many female first sex-changing groupers that live in the Gulf of Mexico (aka, protogynous hermaphrodites). A common life history strategy that is thought to maximize lifetime reproductive output. Happy #25DaysofFishmas
On the 11th day of #fishmas the yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus! Like the porkfish (see #fishmas day 10), yellowtail snapper are increasing in abundance further north along the Florida Gulf coast. Driven, we think, by warmer winter low temperatures. Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 12, 2024 at 2:27 AM
On the 11th day of #fishmas the yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus! Like the porkfish (see #fishmas day 10), yellowtail snapper are increasing in abundance further north along the Florida Gulf coast. Driven, we think, by warmer winter low temperatures. Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
On the 10th day of #fishmas a porkfish, Anisotremus virginicus! Such bold stripes! The young pick parasites off other fish! They can grunt, as can all the grunts! That why we call em grunts! Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 AM
On the 10th day of #fishmas a porkfish, Anisotremus virginicus! Such bold stripes! The young pick parasites off other fish! They can grunt, as can all the grunts! That why we call em grunts! Happy #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
On the ninth day of #fishmas it's a lane snapper, Lutjanus synagris! A common snapper found on rocky and coral reefs of the Western Atlantic. Hybridizes with other snapper species, typically yellowtail snapper but also red, dog, and gray snapper too! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 10, 2024 at 1:23 AM
On the ninth day of #fishmas it's a lane snapper, Lutjanus synagris! A common snapper found on rocky and coral reefs of the Western Atlantic. Hybridizes with other snapper species, typically yellowtail snapper but also red, dog, and gray snapper too! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
For this, the eighth day of #fishmas a littlehead porgy, Calamus proridens. The genus is notable for looking maddeningly similar, making underwater identification difficult. Good eating! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 9, 2024 at 12:23 AM
For this, the eighth day of #fishmas a littlehead porgy, Calamus proridens. The genus is notable for looking maddeningly similar, making underwater identification difficult. Good eating! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
Personally a fan of 🐋 + 💩 no particular reason I searched that combo.
December 8, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Personally a fan of 🐋 + 💩 no particular reason I searched that combo.
On the seventh day of #fishmas have a handful of the humble pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides. So named because they embody a living pincushion! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
December 8, 2024 at 12:49 AM
On the seventh day of #fishmas have a handful of the humble pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides. So named because they embody a living pincushion! #25DaysofFishmas 🦑
On the fifth day of #fishmas a Hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus, a male in the tagging cradle about to be released. Like many fishes, they are sequential hermaphrodites, specifically female first, or protogynous hermaphrodites. They will mature first as a female, then transition to male later. 🐟🦑🧪
December 6, 2024 at 1:32 AM
On the fifth day of #fishmas a Hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus, a male in the tagging cradle about to be released. Like many fishes, they are sequential hermaphrodites, specifically female first, or protogynous hermaphrodites. They will mature first as a female, then transition to male later. 🐟🦑🧪
On the fourth day of #fishmas another Serranid, the Atlantic Goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara, and me! We were diving to change out the acoustic telemetry receiver visible in the background. 🐟
December 5, 2024 at 2:07 AM
On the fourth day of #fishmas another Serranid, the Atlantic Goliath grouper, Epinephelus itajara, and me! We were diving to change out the acoustic telemetry receiver visible in the background. 🐟
On the third day of #fishmas a red grouper in its hole, summer 2013, Florida Bay, FL, USA. To folllow my pinned skeet from earlier that explains some of this unique association of interacting organisms.
December 3, 2024 at 10:43 PM
On the third day of #fishmas a red grouper in its hole, summer 2013, Florida Bay, FL, USA. To folllow my pinned skeet from earlier that explains some of this unique association of interacting organisms.
Now hopefully all the arrows in the graphic abstract make sense. Red Grouper presence benefits lots of things (+ arrows), but indirectly (dashed lines). Except for small lobsters (-) because they eat them (direct interaction = solid line). (19/20)
December 3, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Now hopefully all the arrows in the graphic abstract make sense. Red Grouper presence benefits lots of things (+ arrows), but indirectly (dashed lines). Except for small lobsters (-) because they eat them (direct interaction = solid line). (19/20)
First, since a picture is worth a thousand skeets, check out the graphical abstract. Pretty well explains the whole story. Shout out to Mike Hunter (FWC graphic artist) for creating it. (2/20)
December 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
First, since a picture is worth a thousand skeets, check out the graphical abstract. Pretty well explains the whole story. Shout out to Mike Hunter (FWC graphic artist) for creating it. (2/20)
Just passed 750 followers, that's more than at the old place! In celebration, I'm porting over my most popular thread from there all about my final dissertation chapter. Written from the road returning from a lionfish removal expedition to the Flower Garden Banks in 2019! (1/20)
December 3, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Just passed 750 followers, that's more than at the old place! In celebration, I'm porting over my most popular thread from there all about my final dissertation chapter. Written from the road returning from a lionfish removal expedition to the Flower Garden Banks in 2019! (1/20)
Late evening, NE Florida
November 28, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Late evening, NE Florida