Two false clown anemonefishes (same species as Nemo) and their host anemone
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Two false clown anemonefishes (same species as Nemo) and their host anemone
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Female tomato clownfish in a bulbous anemone with beautiful purple tipped tentacles.
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Tomato clownfish pairs like this could be seen on almost every dive, as could anthias like those above.
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Female tomato clownfish (3-4 inches long)
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A different pair of Tomato clownfish (the smaller orange one is the male) in a brilliantly colored anemone that almost glows!
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Pair of Tomato clownfish (the smaller orange one is the male) in brilliantly colored anemone
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Pair of Tomato clownfish (the smaller orange one is the male) in brilliantly colored anemone
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Note how close the Tomato clownfishes' brilliantly colored anemone (left) is to a different species of anemone (right) that is home to several Pink anemonefishes (only one is visible above).
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False clown anemonefishes (same species as Nemo) and their host anemone, which is almost in the shape of a perfect ball
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False clown anemonefishes (same species as Nemo) and their host anemone, which is mostly closed up, revealing its beautiful underside that is attached to the reef.
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Two false clown anemonefishes (same species as Nemo) and their host anemone
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Two pink anemonefishes and their host anemone, with a beautiful purple underside
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Two pink anemonefish and its host anemone, with a beautiful purple underside
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Two pink anemonefishes and their host anemone, with a beautiful purple underside
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Pink anemonefish in an anemone, with a black damselfish below.
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Pink anemonefishes in an anemone that is almost completely closed up (only a few of its tentacles are visible beneath the fish.
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Pink anemonefishes in an anemone that is almost completely closed up (only a few of its tentacles are visible beneath the fish.
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False clown anemonefishes - same species as Nemo
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Pair of pink anemonefish (aka clownfish)
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Female maroon clownfish (top left) with a nearby pair of pink anemonefish in a different anemone on the right. The black fish are damselfish, which are also immune to anemone stings, and often coexist with anemonefishes.
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Note the beautiful lacy pattern in between this chocolate-chip sea-stars "chips."
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Chocolate-chip sea star next to a Pincushion sea star.
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Crown of Thorns, a devastating sea star that eats almost anything in its path, including other sea stars. The "thorns" on its legs keep other creatures from attempting to eat it. We only saw a few of them (fortunately), but I've seen areas of Indonesia where they got out of control and ruined stretches of reefs.
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Fire urchin (5 inches across), so named both for its bright coloration and for the pain its spines can inflict (guess how I found that out a few years ago!).
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A big barrel sponge, roughly 4 feet in diameter.
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Banded sea-snake (3-ft long, but only 1/2-inch wide). Although seasnakes pack one of the most deadly poisons in the sea, I've never heard of one biting a human. There are two reason: 1. Their mouths are tiny, and would have great difficulty biting a person, especially wearing a neoprene wetsuit; 2. They don't want to - they are one of the most docile creatures in the sea, sometimes swimming curiously around divers, and frequently being handled by dive guides.
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You can tell a sea snake from other snakes (and eels) because their bodies are cylindrical, but their tails are vertically flat, like a paddle. They swim by waving the tail back and forth from side to side.
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You can tell a sea snake from other snakes (and eels) because their bodies are cylindrical, but their tails are vertically flat, like a paddle.
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This little guy was very intent on hunting, sticking his head in every hole in this reef looking for food. At right is a Pincushion Seastar.
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This little guy's head is only about as big around as your little finger.
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Yellow thorny seahorse (4-5-inches long), attempting to blend in with the yellow sponge on the left.
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Pair of Ornate Ghost Pipefish. The large one is the female, and the much smaller one is the male.
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Ornate Ghost Pipefish (3 inches long) live face down/tail up
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Head of an Ornate Ghost Pipefish (related to seahorses). Its eye is about 1/3 down from the top-right corner of this photo.
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