reef fish

Can You Identify These Fish Species?

August 19, 2010

Take our quiz to find out just how well your fish identification skills are. See how many fish you can name from the pictures below – * Photo Credits: photos by M. Christian Selfridge, BlueBeyond, richard ling, alfonsator, loloieg, Boogies with Fish, TGIGreeny, glintle , doug.deep, PacificKlaus and Nataraj Metz on flickr

Creatures That Go Bump In The Night

July 21, 2010

As the sun sets, and most of the reefs inhabitants make their way home for the night, there are groups of reef dwelling fish that are just beginning their day. Nocturnal fish make scuba diving at night a fascinating experience as these species of fish are mostly hidden during the day. These fish tend to [...]

Fish Identification: The Whitemargin Unicornfish

July 1, 2010

The Whitemargin Unicornfish is truly a fascinating Reef Fish which is a delight to sight while scuba diving in the waters of the Indo-Pacific. These fish are known as Unicornfish because of a spike/horn that protrudes from its forehead which can grow quite prominently which makes this fish easy to identify and a curious inhabitant of [...]

The Friendly Napoleon Wrasse

December 20, 2009

The Napoleon Wrasse, is known by several different names; the Humphead Wrasse, Napoleonfish, Maori wrasse or Mameng. It is also one of the most favorite fish of divers to come across while Scuba diving. Firstly its size is an imposing presence, and its curious and intelligent looking eyes will watch your every move carefully. Humphead [...]

Trigger Happy- Diving With The Feisty Titan Triggerfish

September 23, 2009

While the chances of a shark attacking you when you Scuba dive are about 1 in 11.5 million as we have seen in our previous post “Overcoming The ‘Jaws’ Factor When You Dive“, we wish we could say the same about the feisty Titan Trigger Fish. This seemingly harmless reef species of Triggerfish packs a [...]

The Most Beautiful Fish in the Reef

August 31, 2009

When surfing the internet you always find lists of the ugliest, weirdest fish and creatures in this world. It’s like we go out of our way to find the bizarre but often forget to stop and look at the good and the beautiful. Here’s a post dedicated to the most colorful, graceful and majestic creatures [...]