{"id":5546,"date":"2015-11-20T17:22:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T07:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T07:52:36","slug":"toad-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/?p=5546","title":{"rendered":"Toad Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I first noticed the behavior of a male toadifsh (<em>Omegophora armilla<\/em>) collecting objects and filling a discarded bucket with them. On this dive I found another toadfish behaving in a similar way but this time filling a large sponge.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they have completed their collections yet?<\/p>\n<p>What happens when they start to overflow?<\/p>\n<p>Have either suitors attracted a mate yet?<\/p>\n<p>This weekend I plan to go back and visit Toad Hall and see how both are fairing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Toad Hall&#8217; 1\/25s f\/8 ISO160 50mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I first noticed the behavior of a male toadifsh (Omegophora armilla) collecting objects and filling a discarded bucket with them. On this dive I found another toadfish behaving in a similar way but this time filling a large sponge. I wonder if they have completed their collections yet? What happens when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[948,1155,590,1157,113,125,1156,34,70,1154,111,112,88,1153,197],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-50mm","tag-animalbehaviour","tag-building","tag-collecting","tag-diving","tag-fish","tag-housekeeping","tag-jetty","tag-ocean","tag-omegophoraarmilla","tag-rapidbay","tag-scuba","tag-sea","tag-toadfish","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5548,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}