At the same site we saw a pair of purple flame gobies, a fantastic blue-ribbon eel, clown triggerfish and a beautifully striped surgeonfish. |
Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
Many species, such as parrotfish and surgeonfish, prospered on the algae covering that invades stricken coral reefs. |
Schools of fusiliers and surgeonfish and over 400 other species of tropical fish have made it their home. |
What struck me most were the brilliantly-coloured blue tangs, surgeonfish which don't want to be photographed, and the soft corals. |
The upper part is the territory of the surgeonfish which savagely protects it by attacking divers when they approach. |