This triggerfish was crunching of sand when I swam up to it, as it made the getaway it let sand go out the gills. I have seen this before where they eat sand and coral and flush it through the gills, I have also seen them poop sand. So now you know how some of [...]

After trying for so long to get a good picture of this fish, here is the second one in a couple weeks. You can’t often see the detailed crosshatch colors in the body, but when the light is right it looks nice, usually it looks all black. Ahihi-Kinau.

This photo really shows the coloration of this fish, for the most part it looks all black with the 2 white stripes above and below the back dorsal fins. Occasionally this fish will show its true colors and markings like this photo, but don’t count on it. Olowalu.

I finally got a nice clean well lit side shot of this bugger. They really don’t like to show off the side of thier body. It is very common to see this fish at any reef in Maui, they are funny because they slip into small cracks in the reef and disappear quickly, they seem [...]

This fish likes to patrol the edge of the reef and sometimes will travel out over the sandy bottom to get away. This is the state fish of Hawaii, it has a cousing with slightly different markings, with the same Hawaiian name, which is also the state fish. In english they have different names. If [...]