Sentences with phrase «andaman jawfish»

On the flip side, you should keep very few fish in small invert tanks, sticking mainly to items like gobies, blennies, dottybacks, jawfish, basslets, etc..

Large crabs will go after bottom - dwelling fish species, such as jawfish, gobies, blennies and sculpins.

If you display a nice group of Moorish idols or an Achilles tang, or maybe a bed of garden eels or colony of jawfish, it will get attention.

In the meantime, marine divers are now collecting those miniature fish that they already knew about but never figured were worth anything: shrimp gobies (with their commensal shrimp), crabs that live in the spines of sea urchins, fish that live in the body cavity of sea cucumbers and jawfish and garden eels that live in the substrate.

Its only residents are sand divers and jawfish, which disappear into sand or burrows when approached.

This most colourful jawfish family member often hovers above its rubble burrow.

As well as hundreds of strange and wonderful tiny critters, you can see flamboyant gobies and cuttlefish, jawfish, the more unusual leaffish, grey frogfish and ghost pipefish, hawkfish, crocodilefish and of course, many colourful mandarinfish which give this site its name.

If you're lucky you may find turtles, nurse sharks and giant jawfish resting in the dark recesses of the tunnel, but always you will find a school of curious looking glassy sweepers just before the tunnel exit at 100ft (30m).

Dolphins, manta rays, reef sharks, giant trevallies, mobula rays circling the boat lights at night, a brooding jawfish with a mouthful of eggs, pygmy seahorses, frogfish, ghost pipefish, very healthy reef fish life and innumerable crustaceans and invertebrates.

Ghost pipefish, octopus, sea snakes, Frogfish big, small, painted, angry, jawfish with eggs, cardinal fish with eggs, sea horses... it's all there.

This is obviously very subjective, but the sites I enjoyed along the Dumaguete coast were the house reef in front of Atmosphere and next door at Bahura, along with (place we saw the jawfish etc).

While large coral heads are sparse here in shallow water, there is a sandy bottom, where many lively yellowhead jawfish poke their heads out of holes in the coral rubble.

On the sand floor, yellowheaded jawfish float nervously over their burrow holes.

Some of the smaller species that you can see are jawfish, which is an endemic species to the Similan Islands, and purple and red fire gobies.