Mandarin Fish

Mandarin fish, apparently it’s their mating season here.

1st pregnant seahorse of the trip.

seahorse

seahorse

seahorse or, as i learned 海马

seahorse

Thresher shark

Thresher shark

Thresher shark

Thresher shark. Looks like an airplane from below…

Thresher shar and his pet 😀

Parece um QRcode. Big puffer fish

Dona Marilyn shipwreck

Dona Marilyn shipwreck

Dona Marilyn shipwreck

Highlight of the trip: the FAMOUS Ghost pipefish.

From a distance, it’s hard to find it

Frogfish hiding from the police

New stars!

reef shark

quite different starfish

Sea snail

HUGE nudibrach. I don’t know if they have weightwatchers here, but…

pretty face, smile for the camera!

baby scorpionfish

big antennas

Maybe my best macro picture ever?

boxer shrimp

Extreme close-up

small but dangerous!

Incredible visibility

New diopter is hard to be used on fish, BUT not impossible 🙂

this is only 2 cm long…

light from heaven illuminating my dive 🙂

two friendly nudibranch playing in a coral

looks like Nicky Minaj

Little shrimp, be careful, your home is swarmin with baby SNAKES!

baby shrimp playing near the anemonae

the most curious starfish. SUPER fat and looks like a football.

good composition, I think 😉

good scenery

boxer shrimp posing like a scorpion

there were some very unusual starfish

hermit crab.

lion fish

pebble crab, the cutest thing.

Scorpion fish. lovely green eyes.

rarest fish on the trip: seamoth. Also known as a PEGASUS. Can you guess why?

HERE IS A STORY THAT I WITNESSED ON THE TRIP. PICTURE 1 OF 7. I was following the he…

2 of 7 On closer examination, there were 2 crabs buried.

3 of 7 And then this guy got uncovered and started to threaten everyone.

4 of 7 He kidnapped the white one while still threatening everyone around

5 of 7 and then took off, carrying his victim.

6 of 7 He kept running toward the darkness

a PRAWN smiling to the camera 🙂

Even the fish are quite beautiful on night dives there.

to be honest, I’m not sure what this is…I will update once I find out. –> found…

frogfish

nudibranch letting its hair fly in the wind 😀

good colors, huh?

hidden in the soft corals

a flower for the ladies 🙂

ZEBRA CRAB. this is VERY rare.

The zebra crab is found under this stunning sea urchin.

secret shrimp. Can you find it?

It has 1.5 cm, imagine how hard it was to find it…

everything is camouflaged in Malapascua

close-up of the beautiful sea urchin

extreme close-up of the sea urchin. Looks like a city…

skyview of the sea urchin. I will find out its name

another one of the invertebrated guys swimming around

good close up of a nudibranch

Mantis Shrimp! I love the colors on these guys.

File fish hidden. Everything here is hidden.

Stealth level: maximum. Can you find this one?

he was shy but accepted to take a close up pic 🙂

ghost pipe fish and his dad

hidden on the sand

amazing, huh?

looks like a spider

againts the wind 🙂

extreme camouflage

Put your hands in the air and don’t move!

close up of a scorpionfish

blue eyes!

pipefish

did anyone forget their chewing gum? beautiful color for a nudibranch

two guys having an undercover meeting 🙂

Yes, I blew his cover…

A spanish dancer! Actually no…it’s a sea slug. But quite a nice one!

They are also quite rare.

baby frogfish!

grumpy fish

#chatiado