We have had a great week at Two Fish Lembeh – Wonderpus, Tiger Shrimps, Harlequin Shrimps, Stargazers during the day and to top it all our second Lembeh Sea Dragon sighting this month!!
Karen & Paul , two of our current guests, came back extremely excited from the Mandarin Dive last night. We thought that the Mandarinfish must have been particularly ‘active’ on the dive but when they came running over to the ‘Chill-Out Lounge’ with huge grins on their faces and told us what they had spotted how we all wished we’d been on the dive with them!
As you can see from Karen’s photo, they are extremely small, this one not measuring more than about 2cm in length, hence the other common name for them – Pygmy Pipefish. It is a good photo as you get a good look at its face! Thank you Karen for letting us use it.
Paul and I were very excited to see this little chap, and couldn’t believe how good Opo’s eyes must be to spot it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so small and vunerable-looking in my life. When Opo and I were studying it a pipefish appeared between us, like a dog at the dinner table, so we had to shoo him away before the sea-dragon became lunch!