Wildlife

Behavior

The leaf scorpion fish is a mimic fish, flattened laterally, resembling a dead leaf, and moves with the swell as a leaf would. This effective camouflage strategy  has allowed to evolve, effective to defend itself but also to hunt. It’s pray, small fish, only detect it once it’s too late, inhaled into its expandable mouth. These fish that seem not very mobile, are extremely fast like the frog fish when they attack.

Leaf scorpion fish shed their skin regularly. When this happens, the dead skin detaches itself from the body in one piece, without disintegrating.

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Multicolor Leaf Scorpionfish in Menjangan, Bali thumbnail
Red Leaf Scorpionfish in Tulamben, Bali thumbnail
Green Leaf Scorpionfish in Menjangan Marine Park, Bali thumbnail
Yellow Leaf Scorpionfish in Tulamben, Bali thumbnail

Flora

This species is living on sanded ocean floors among the soft corals and anemones. It is a tiny species and we often have to get a closer look to its environment.

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Coral diversity in POS 2, Menjangan thumbnail
Colourful Coral in Menjangan Marine Park thumbnail
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Sea Fan and coral in POS 2, Menjangan thumbnail
Huge Sea Fan in POS 2, Menjangan Marine Park thumbnail
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Depth

It definitely depends on the dive site chosen but an average depth of 10 meters is often enough to underneath this colourful species.

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Kind of Diving

Macro Dive!

Marine biology, night diving, orientation and photography.

Notes

Accessible to all levels as long as the divers have good buoyancy to not ruin the pictures of other divers.

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