Home to a variety of shy creatures
like pipefish, sea horses, eels, octopuses; as well as prolific fish life from wrasse to reef sharks.
At NIMBioS, Flanagan is extending the research by exploring the role that genetics plays in complex systems in species
like pipefish.
Not exact matches
And in some animals
like seahorses and
pipefish, it's the males that get pregnant.
But in some species, the sex roles are reversed and males carry the brood, as in the case of
pipefish and other members of the Syngnathus family
like the seahorse.
Hung in this void
like a small constellation, the ghost
pipefish, impossible.
We are
like teams of explores heading out into the night giddy with anticipation of what discoveries we may find
like the hard to find Halimeda Ghost
Pipefish.
The dive sites are home to a huge variety of tropical fish, from charismatic little critters
like seahorses and ghost
pipefish, through shoaling fish
like fusiliers and sweetlips up to larger creatures including turtles and reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish and barracuda.
On the reef side of the wreck also had lot of cool little encounters
like juvenile sweetlip, mantis shrimp, ornate ghost
pipefish and scorpion fish.
Divesites
like our house reef and Ghost Bay provide top - class muck diving, with mimic octopus, ghost
pipefish and more.
They could go on the dive site Jetty and spot lots of critters such
like frogfishes, gurnard lionfishes or ghost
pipefishes.
Haan's boasts some specialist muck diving just off the east coast of Gili Air and is largely frequented by photographers seeking to capture a glimpse of stranger creatures
like Flying gunard, frogfish and many varieties of
pipefish.
Haan's Reef on Gili Air is fast becoming renowned for excellent «muck diving» where divers can see rare critters
like frogfish, pink — leafed scorpion fish, flying gunard, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, robust ghost
pipefish, blue ringed octopus and ringed
pipefish.
The structures attract all sorts of life
like Snappers, Puffers, Ghost
Pipefish, Nudibranchs and so on.
This week, our dive guide Andy was proofing his ability to spot the smallest and most amazing creatures you can find here on the Gili Islands
like winged
pipefish, hairy shrimps, ghost
pipefish and some amazing looking nudibranchs.
Seahorses and ornate ghost
pipefish like the shelter of the seafans.
All Dive sites have an enormous marine diversity with amazing creatures
like ornate ghost
pipefishes, frogfishes, nudibranchs, octopuses, reef sharks and off course many many turtles!
In the bay at slope sandy bottom is good place to see unusual animals,
like Shrimps, Ghost
pipefish, Dragonet fish, Sand Diver fish, Gobies, Devil scorpion and others.
Neverthelees, a few creatures spotted through the macro lenses were the soft coral crab Hoplophrys oatesii, Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp and a other critters,
like the Orange - spotted
Pipefish and a couple of different scorpionfishes.
It was not all, since nudibranchs,
like the Flabellina,
pipefishes,
like the Ringed, Egg - Shell Shrimp and others were also found.
Due to the strenght of the currents during the day, our groups spend most of the time along the northern wall looking for critters
like Crinoid and Wire Coral Shrimp, Soft Coral
Pipefish, flatworms, nudibranchs, Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse and more.
On top of that, macro life and critters were pointed out by our divemasters,
like the Denise Pygmy Seahorse, Ringed
Pipefish and also a couple of Wobbegong Sharks.
Camouflage masters
like the Wobbegong Shark, Leaf Scorpionfish, Pygmy Seahorse and Ornate Ghost
Pipefish were also photographed.
There were plenty of options both in terms of pelagic, Black tip and Grey Reef Shark, Napoleon Wrasse and schooling fusiliers, as of macro, Orangutan Crab, nudibranchs,
like the Pikachu, flatworms and
pipefishes,
like the Ringed
Pipefish.
The walls are covered in soft corals and gorgonians, look for things
like ghost
pipefish, moray eels and seahorses.
Haan's Reef on Gili Air is fast becoming renowned for excellent «muck diving» where divers can see rare critters
like frogfish, pink — leafed scorpion fish, flying gunard, mantis shrimp, nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, robust ghost
pipefish, blue ringed octopus, ringed
pipefish, turtles, various coloured frogfish and Bio Rock projects.