Photos of Dog Snapper Eating Trumpetfish

Posted October 31st, 2007 by JessM82

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Photos taken 19 January 2007 on Snapper Ledge in Key Largo, Florida in the middle of the afternoon. I was teaching an open water class and had 2 students in the water who saw this on their very first ocean dive.

big stomach?

Submitted by rovingdiver on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 10:22.

Makes you wonder how it all fit in its stomach. Nice photos!

Dog vrs. Schoolmaster Snapper

Submitted by reefnut on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 07:30.

Nice shots! The species of snapper is puzzling, though. It has the pale teardrop under the eye of a Dog Snapper, but the fins are all yellow like a Schoolmaster Snapper. Could this fish be a hybrid?

Kristi Draper
(aka REEFNUT)

Is it normal to think about diving...all the time?

snapper eating trumpetfish

Submitted by deescarr on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 17:41.

Fantastic thing to watch! Were you able to stay until the trunpetfish was all the way down? Did its progress stomachward slow down or stop at some point? Did the snapper keep swimming around or hang out in one place?

Dee Scarr, Touch the Sea