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Fish in their homes: Not quite like we're used to seeing them.
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St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This type of fish (male sergeant major fish) turns blue and become very aggressive when guarding their eggs. This one just chased a surgeonfish (exiting, stage right) away from his eggs (blue-gray patch to the left). On the Charlie Brown sunken ship. © Rick Collier
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St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This type of fish (male sergeant major fish) turns blue and become very aggressive when guarding their eggs. This one just chased a surgeonfish (exiting, stage right) away from his eggs (blue-gray patch to the left). On the Charlie Brown sunken ship. © Rick Collier

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  • A Foureye Butterflyfish cruises past the reef. This small reef fish is common all over the Caribbean. Taken while scuba diving the "Sponges" dive site of Roatan, Honduras. © Rick Collier
  • Indigo Hamlet (bass) A very beautiful reef fish, this all-blue variant is one of the less common varieties of this common Caribbean reef fish. Taken while scuba diving the "Labyrinth" dive site of Roatan, Honduras. © Rick Collier
  • Stoplight Parrotfish. This very common Caribbean reef fish is named for its distinctive green and red coloration. Taken while scuba diving the "Labyrinth" dive site of Roatan, Honduras. © Rick Collier
  • Mooring line. While ascending the mooring line at the end of my dive, a pair of small Blue Runner fish scavenging small prey scared up when divers come up the line. Taken while scuba diving the "Labyrinth" dive site of Roatan, Honduras. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - A fish (Hind, or sea bass) waits on the reef for a passing meal to swim past. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - When scuba diving on the Chien Tong shipwreck, you can always find this scrawled filefish around the rails of the sunken ship. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - A pair of mating fish (yellowhead wrasse) engaged in their mating dance above the reef. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - During a scuba dive, I saw another diver trying to get a picture chase this fish (a queen angelfish) toward me along a wall. So I set up on a spot and tried to press the shutter at just the right time. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This kind of fish (Damselfish) is small but unafraid and very territorial. They commonly will try to chase divers away. This one had me in his sights as I cruised past his coral hideout on the reef. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This type of small fish (harlequin bass) is commonly seen when scuba diving any area of mixed corals and sandy bottom. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - A stoplight parrotfish resting on coral. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This type of small tropical fish (barred hamlet) is common but very shy, and commonly found on the Caribbean reefs. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - An unusual-looking tropical fish (trumpetfish) looks among the soft corals for a place to hide. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - Often seen by scuba divers, these fish (smooth trunkfish) are pretty common in Caribbean waters. This one is foraging on the sandy bottom. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This is the first time I saw this type of fish (a black durgeon) hiding. It swam backwards into this hole in the reef and hid there, rather than swimming effortlessly away as they usually do. As you can see from this one's nose, this common Caribbean reef fish isn't really black at all. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - Scuba divers frequently see these fish (banded butterflyfish) all along most Caribbean reefs. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - This type of fish (male sergeant major fish) turns blue and become very aggressive when guarding their eggs. This one just chased a surgeonfish (exiting, stage right) away from his eggs (blue-gray patch to the left). On the Charlie Brown sunken ship. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - During a scuba dive on a Caribbean reef, divers frequenly find fish hiding just inside barrel sponges. This squirrelfish didn't seem to fit in the sponge it chose. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - Scuba diving on the "Double Wreck" reef, we were surprised to find a large school of pink fish (squirrelfish) massed together under a very small overhang at the edge of the reef, just above the sandy sea bottom. © Rick Collier
  • St. Eustatius (Statia) Underwater - For this scuba photograph, I swam straight into the crush of fish (squirrelfish) that was hanging out just under the reef, just before they all bolted. © Rick Collier
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