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Colourful fish inhabiting coral tree

This school of fish lives in the coral tree, they leave to find food and come back to find protection from a predator … or a diver. When a diver approaches the tree all the fish hurry to get back to it. When he/she leaves they leave the tree. I played that game with them many times: Float on the surface, get your camera ready. Quickly but quietly descend to the coral tree holding your breath, make a picture before the fish hide in the tree, surface and wait for them lo leave leave it again. Repeat the process from different angles and with different camera settings.

Cloud of coral fish inhabiting coral block in shallow murky bay

Keywords: coral fish tiny school coral block underwater undersea blue water green swimming swim hide Pacific ocean sea Vava’u Tonga tropics tropical