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Swimming with sea animals in Hol Chan Marine Reserve, Belize

Colorful Coral Reef Teeming with Exotic Fish. Lively and colorful coral reef in a vibrant underwater world. Diverse array of tropical fish swimming freely in their aquatic environment, creating a mesmerizing scene for nature and animal enthusiasts alike.

Tropical fish swimming through the open water over coral reef

$Mandarin fishes inhabit shallow protected lagoons and inshore reefs. They occur in the Western Pacific from Ryukyu Islands to Australia, usually in small groups spread over small area in a depth range from 1-18m, max. length 7cm. \nMandarinfish do not have scales, but a mucus layer for protection. It is not only a stinky slime they produce, but they also secrete a toxin to protect them against predators. Their dramatic colouration, known as aposematism, is a warning: unpalatability and toxicity - both prey and predator get to live longer. \nThe couples perform an extraordinary courtship dance at dusk. Females gather at the reef, judging if a male is worthy. A male who has successfully courted a lady attaches to her at the pelvic fin. Then the pair swim up from the reef towards the waters surface, releasing a cloud of sperm and around 200 eggs smaller than 1mm. \nThis specimen is a male: The presence of an elongated spine at the front of the first dorsal fin of males is distinctive. Females will not have this spike and will have a rounded first dorsal fin instead. In this case, there was a female too, but she didn't make it into the photo.\nBanda Neira Island, Indonesia, \n4°30'40.842 S 129°53'19.71 E at 1.5m depth$

Seaweed Surgeon - Surgical Fish. Body up to 50 cm in length. Widespread in the Indian-Pacific tropical climate.

Symphysodon discus in an aquarium on a green background

A Discus fish swimming in a fresh water aquarium surrounded by some plants, trunks and many Neon fishes

Emperor red snapper swimming in coral reef

Queen angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris), also known as the blue angelfish, golden angelfish or yellow angelfish underwater in sea with corals in background

$Flower Cardinalfish Ostorhinchus fleurieu occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific from the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and scattered localities in East Africa to Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan region, and Hong Kong; south to Australia; east to Fiji in a depth range from 1-97m ( usually 1-37m), max. length 14.2cm. The species is common in shallow coastal reefs with moderate currents, also in tidal channels of estuaries. Adults are usually in small schools comprising pairs. The mouthbrooders form distinct pairs during courtship and spawning. \nBelow there are two Spotted-gill Cardinalfishes Ostorhinchus chrysopomus. The species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific from the Indo-Malay Archipelago to New Guinea and Solomon Islands in a depth range from 2-25m, max. length 10cm. \nTriton Bay, Kaimana Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia, \n3°51'48.03 S 133°55'48.96 E at 6m depth by night$

Lyretail Wrasse (Thalasoma lunare) in front of Coral Landscape

Beautiful wild orchid flowers of Miltonia flavescens in the backyard

A male Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) in a posidonia (Posidonia oceanica) seagrass meadow in the French Mediterranean Sea

$Medium to tall perennial. Aerial leaves narrow to broadly arrow-shaped, with pointed basal lobes, long stalked; floating leaves when present oval to lanceolate. Flowers white, 20-26mm, the petals with a basal purple blotch, borne in whorled racemes or panicles; male and female flowers on the same plant; stamens hairless with purplish-brown anthers.\n\n\n\n\n$

Macropharyngodon meleagris, the black-spotted wrasse, Eastern leopard wrasse or reticulated wrasse, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. This species is native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It lives on coral reefs at depths of from the surface to 30 metres.

Lythrypnus dalli, the Blue-banded goby or Catalina Goby is a species of goby native to the eastern Pacific from Monterey Bay (California) to northern Peru, including the Gulf of California. Actinopterygii, Gobiiformes, Gobiidae.

Blue marbled angelfish in a tropical freshwater aquarium.

Sawfish swimming in an aquarium, looks like a swordfish

Adults of Humphead or Napoleon Wrasse Cheilinus undulatus develop thick lips and a prominent bulbous hump on the forehead and can grow up to more than 2.2 meters. The species inhabits steep outer reef slopes, channel slopes and lagoon reefs. Primary food are mollusks, fishes, sea urchins, crustaceans and other invertebrates. Napoleon Wrasse is one of the few predators of toxic animals such as sea hares, boxfishes and crown-of-thorns starfish. Napoleon Wrasse is is seriously endangered, being hunted to the brink of extinction to feed a growing demand among wealthy Chinese diners for luxury live fish. Not wise, so crown-of-thorns starfishes take over and destroy the reefs.

Pink water lilies on a pond in botanical garden.

Yellow fish isolated on white,Yellowtail Surgeonfish

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