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This is a photo that I took a long time ago with my old K10D. Green clown gobies live among the branches of Acropora corals where they are known to remove small parasitic copepods and invasive algae from the coral. The coral provides a nice network of hideouts for the goby so both partners benefit from this relationship. This coral is actually infested with parasitic copepods and I was able to witness this tiny fish removing the parsites while feeding.

Jim Zablotny is a natural historian, entomologist, and nature photographer from Fenton, Michigan. His present work emphasizes color, detail, and bold composition of natural subjects. His artistic endeavors included scientific illustration, and presently nature photography with subjects ranging from macro photographs of insects and wildflowers, to birds, reptiles,amphibians, and mammals. Many of his newer images are photographs of the living things found in endangered habitats like prairies, and fens. Jim is a regular participant on the Nature Photographers Network (http://www.naturephotographers.net/enter.html) and has earned Editor's picks for weekly and monthly presentations for his macro-photography of insects and wildflowers. One...