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Fiji’s Rainbow Reefs

  • The currents bring plankton streaming past the soft corals for all the hungry mouths of the small Anthias fish.
  • A swift moving school of Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphreutes. Their banded pattern may seen to make them conspicuous, but when they move quickly as a group, it may be confusing and make it harder for prey to target an individual.
  • Emperor shrimp on Leopard Sea Cucumber.
  • Two fish as one: This Trevally is using the Clown Triggerfish as a stalking horse to sneak up on prey that ignore the harmless triggerfish.
  • A blue-spotted grouper makes a lunge on a reef in Fiji.
  • A steephead parrotfish (Scarus microrhinos) nibbling on algae encrusted coral.
  • Shrimp on a tubasraea coral.
  • Bleached staghorn and other corals on a shallow reef in the Fiji Island. Note that the white areas are bleached (have lost their algae), but brown areas have retained their algae. Reefs can recover from this type of partial bleaching and this one did.
  • Long-jawed mackerel straining a meal through their gill baskets.
  • A giant manta (Manta birostris) with a golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus) in its wing.
  • A coral reef with a variety of soft and hard corals and anthias and golden damselfish. Vatu-i-Ra Channel, Fiji.
  • Well-camouflaged wire coral shrimp graze and hide on their host.
  • Triplefin fish resting on a hard coral
  • A variegated lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) waits camouflaged for small fish.
  • A clownfish nestled in the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone.
  • A red-margined wrasse (Cirrhilabrus rubrimarginatus) in a soft coral’s polyps.
  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
  • A Harlequin Ghost Pipefish hides in a clump of whip coral, very well camouflaged.

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