(1) We passed small shoals of bigeye snapper, masked angelfish and a couple of colourful groupers on our way to a garden of gorgonians.(2) Back at the ladder, Fred shoots his last few frames on a large school of oldwives, black and white fish that look a lot like the angelfish I had in an aquarium when I was a kid.(3) Parrotfish, wrasse, grouper, angelfish , butterflyfish and barracuda are permanent residents.(4) The angelfish , butterflyfish and pufferfish were trying to sleep, the parrotfish were already ensconced in their mucus cocoons, but small blacktip reef sharks followed me around.(5) Feeling rather like a whale among minnows, I found myself in the middle of schools of small green damselfish and a host of mainly yellow and blue angelfish , bannerfish and butterfly fish.(6) The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish , butterflyfish and sweetlips.(7) As the rays hover over the seamounts, the diminutive angelfish come up and feed on the parasites that attach to the rays' skin.(8) Here, where currents from South America and the Atlantic clash and dump their plankton load, pelagics share the reefs with the ubiquitous black durgons, queen angelfish and creole wrasse you might expect to find.(9) Coral outcrops in Bida Nai gave refuge to a large river of yellow snappers and glassy sweepers; I managed to photograph a beautiful pair of blue-lined groupers and blue-ringed angelfish .(10) A fairly strong current ensured that the fishlife was superb - barramundi cod, angelfish , schooling sweetlips and whitetip reef sharks were just a few species we encountered.(11) Freshwater angelfish have extended dorsal and anal fins and discus fishes, have compressed, disc-like bodies.(12) Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish , surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.(13) The spine on the operculum is the best way to identify an angelfish and to distinguish it from similar-looking species, such as butterfly fish.(14) On the wall hawkfish, angelfish , trumpets, groupers and a school of adult midnight snappers approach divers with curiosity.(15) Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish , surgeonfish and butterflyfish.(16) We saw crabs, eels, batfish, unicornfish, pufferfish, boxfish, lionfish, squirrelfish, racoonfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish and angelfish , to name just a few.
