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THIS WEEK IN BUNAKEN......... The reef has been treating us with big and small this week with Ornate Ghost pipefish in various colours (as you can see from the amazing photo from Saeed)!

Lembeh is home to many species of Pipefish, all beautiful and interesting in their own way.

Our divemasters pointed our a white Painted Frogfish, Denise and Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorses, Ringed Pipefish, Bubble Coral Shrimp, Popcorn Shrimp, in between others.

As it turns out, a whole generation of Banded Pipefish was spared!

At NIMBioS, Flanagan is extending the research by exploring the role that genetics plays in complex systems in species like pipefish.

But, in new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, researchers found that the size of male pipefish matters too.

You'll get the chance to see pipefish, razorfish, and the weirdly wonderful devil scorpionfish.

In these cases, females must compete for access to available mates, and indeed, researchers have found secondary sex traits, such as brightly colored ornamentation, evolving in female pipefish instead of males.

It has also dropped a bit in temperature, we have averaged at 29 but with all the thermoclines we have been getting 28 and with this we have been spotting a lot more ornate ghost pipefish hiding around the feather stars on various dive sites.

Some of the findings were: Peacock - tail Anemone Shrimp, Porcelain Crab, Soft Coral Pipefish, and more.

These ever - popular islands provide splendid wall dives where you might find reef sharks and groupers, schooling reef fish such as fusiliers, as well as smaller marine treasures such as pipefish and squid.

At Texas A&M, researcher Kimberly Paczolt mated Gulf pipefish in multiple trials.

From male pipefish pregnancies to single - father frogs, evolution has produced some truly doting dads — and made the job surprisingly rewarding

This week's spotlight is on the Network Pipefish of Lembeh.

Lighthouse is one of the top muck diving sites in Cabilao with chances of spotting pipefish and nudibranchs.

Macro life here may include colourful nudibranchs, seahorses and pipefish for the eagle - eyed.

You will spend most of the time in and around a series of rocky patches where you are also likely to see cuttlefish, ribbon eels, cockatoo leaf fish and various pipefish.

At Padang, find scorpionfish, leaf fish and pipefish camouflaged in the reef.

The female pipefish injects eggs into the male, which then bears live young.

But research published in March suggests these model dads are not being selfless: Pipefish treat their offspring well only if they really like their mates.

The father pipefish might do this by transferring more nutrients to broods mothered by attractive females and allowing less desirable broods to languish.

When pipefish are sick, they swim towards cooler water to get better.

But many new species are coming on the market now, including danios, rasboras, catfish and a tiny freshwater pipefish.

This week in Lembeh we're having a Ghost Pipefish bonanza!

Amed's House Reef is teeming with life at the moment: we've been spotting families of ornate ghost pipefish regularly, and a few days ago, this brightly colored Rhinopias (weedy scorpion fish) made his home here (thanks Nina Banks for the picture).

I found a nice yellow leaf fish sitting in some table coral and while I was photographing it I also spotted an ornate ghost pipefish whose camouflage almost worked.

There we sighted a number of interesting things including a mantis shrimp, slender stick pipefish, moray eels, and a devil scorpionfish.

Harlequin ghostpipefish and robust ghost pipefish shelter in the refuges provided by these rocks on the soft corals and fans.

Sea fans harbour pipefish, seahorses and shrimpfish, keeping even the most experienced divers entertained for days.

Our guests this week were all big fans of macro photography and loved some of the macro dive sites and all the night dives this week which were packed full of interesting critters — the highlights were a pair of roughsnout ghostpipefish, juvenile flamboyant cuttlefish, numerous little frogfish, pughead pipefish, and an incredibly rare green and white hairy shrimp!

A personal highlight of this trip was all down to the eagle eyes of our dive guide Ketut on the last dive at «Sumbawa Wall» where he found two incredibly rare, tiny pugheaded pipefish!

Our lucky instructors, Ahmed and Luca, spotted a ghost pipefish under the jetty of Dhiggiri house reef!

underwater macro photography portrait of bent pipefish syngathiform in padang bai jetty dive site bali

Hairy Frogfish Long Arm Octopus Robust Ghost Pipefish Painted Frogfish Flabellina rubrolineata

Warty Forgfish Wonderpus Octopus Robust Ghost Pipefish Chromodoris willani Chromodoris annae

Coconut Octopus Painted Frogfish Ornate Ghost Pipefish Common Seahorse Flamboyant Cuttlefish

That was not all, as (juvenile) Broadclub Cuttlefish, Signal Gobies, Orangutan Crab, Coleman Shrimp and the seldom seen Whiskered Pipefish were also spotted.

Blue - Ringed Octopus Ornate Ghost Pipefish Denise's Pygmy Seahorse Nembrotha purpureolineata Broadclub Cuttlefish

Once each dive begins, one of you will fix their face to the wall, scouring the colourful ledges and overhangs of corals and sponges for such creatures as pontohi pygmy seahorses, elegant squat lobsters, whip coral shrimps, slipper lobsters, decorator crabs, fantail pipefish and yellow leaffish.

The wrecks are fantastic - lots of penetration and they are also the most beautiful reefs - we have seen seahorses and a ghost pipefish already.

While photographing a gorgeous yellow leaf fish on some table coral, I also noticed a harlequin ghost pipefish almost perfectly camouflaged.

Besides those, Mushroom Coral and Ringed Pipefish, Sarasvati Anemone Shrimp, Egg Shell Shrimp and nudibranchs were pointed out by Hery and Jemy, our divemasters.

This week one of the Banded Pipefish found itself in a slightly awkward situation when it got a bit to close to a hungry Ribbon Eel.

Home to a variety of shy creatures like pipefish, sea horses, eels, octopuses; as well as prolific fish life from wrasse to reef sharks.

Take a relaxing wander through the Gorgonian Garden for possible manta ray encounters and then return for a night dive to meet ghost pipefish hidden in the colourful coral garden.

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.

Male Gulf pipefish are left holding the babies: they get pregnant and rear offspring in their bodies.