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  • Nº23 # Date: 2011-09-26 - 10:15
  • # Max Depth: 35m Duration: 45mins
Diver's Notes

Bonaire - 18th Palm.

Stoplight parrot fish, queen parrot, porcupinefish, honeycomb cowfish, trumpetfish, schoolmaster, blackbar soldierfish, rock hind, rock beauty, sugeonfish, duskey damselfish, french grunt. Shoredive, geen wetsuite. - geen divemaster.

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  • Temp: Surf 25°C Bottom 23°C
  • Dive type : Recreational, Photo, Shore dive
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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  • Camera: Canon / WP-DC28 - Powershot G10
  • Weights: 7 kg
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  • 1. Air
  • 12L Steel     207 → 76 bar
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  • Average depth: 23.3m
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Species Identified

Sparisoma viride (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Dark green parrotfish) Inhabits coral reefs with clear water . Young may be found in seagrass beds and other heavily vegetated bottoms. Feeds mainly on soft algae, but has been observed to graze on live corals like, Montastraea annularis . Pr...
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Diodon holocanthus Linnaeus, 1758 (Long-spine porcupinefish)
Acanthostracion polygonius Poey, 1876 (honeycomb cowfish) Occurs in clear water around coral reefs. Feeds on sponges, alcyonarians, tunicates, and shrimp. Uncommon and wary . Consumed fresh, generally roasted .
Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1841 (Caribbean trumpetfish) Commonly found in weedy areas and especially around reefs, where they usually swim snout-down among sea whips . A solitary ambusher of small fishes and crustaceans that lurk among branching coral or gorgonians. Often swi...
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Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum, 1792) (Dogtooth snapper) Occurs in shallow, clear, warm, coastal waters over coral reefs. Often near the shelter of elkhorn corals and gorgonians . Juveniles are encountered over sand bottoms with or without seagrass , and over muddy bottoms of ...
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Myripristis jacobus Cuvier, 1829 (Bastard soldierfish) Found from shallow coral reefs to offshore deeper waters . A nocturnal species aggregating around coral reefs and deeper rocky reefs . Feeds mainly on planktonic organisms . Occasionally found swimming upside down . Marketed fresh but not popular as a food fish .
Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (Butterfish) Inhabits rocky reefs. Usually solitary . Feeds mainly on crabs (67%) and fishes (20%). At Ascension I., it feeds on juvenile Melichthys niger and young sea turtles. Difficult to approach . Its flesh is of good qualit...
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Holacanthus tricolor (Bloch, 1795) (Angelfish) Inhabits rock jetties, rocky reefs and rich coral areas. Juveniles often associated with fire corals . Feeds on tunicates, sponges, zoantharians and algae. Marketed fresh .
Stegastes adustus (Troschel, 1865) (Dusky damselfish) Inhabits rocky shores exposed to wave action. Often in tide pools. Feeds primarily on algae and detritus. Territorial and pugnacious. Generally common . Taken incidentally in traps and small-meshed beach nets .

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