This is a tight school at  Turtle Arches in Makena. They are blushing pink.

This goatfish is using his “goatee” to feel around for food. Makena, Maui.

This goatfish is getting cleaned by the cleaner wrasse.

This goatfish like most others can change color rapidly to adapt to the surroundings or appear more threatening or less desirable to predators. This fish forages the sand and coral for algae using its little goatee whiskers to stir up the goodies. They seem to reach about 8-12 inches in length. Makena, Maui.

Here is a little goatfish, I really like how his goatee is disproportionate to his body. You can imagine the adult with more proportion, actually I will get a picture of the adult some day so you won’t have to imagine. Any way the goatfish use their little feeler goatees to forage in the sand [...]

Goatfish tend to band together in schools and stay in one area. I took the picture of this school of goatfish at the point off Pu’u Ola’i Makena, Maui. They are always there cruising around. The reason they are called goatfish is that they have two feelers like goatees which they use to dig in [...]