Chris took me to a small cave where a shoal of upside-down soldierfish patrolled the entrance, and pointed out all the small crustaceans inside. |
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In the cracks and overhangs, small schools of black-bar soldierfish hung out. |
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Dense shoals of red and silver bigeye, soldierfish and yellow and blue-striped snapper cover the reef. |
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Blackbar soldierfish protect the entrance to the engine room and several species of snapper lie motionless in protected areas. |
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The reef is teeming with fish, ranging from small blennies hiding in barnacles to shoals of grunts and soldierfish. |
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Great swarms of bigeyes were shoaling on the reef next to swarms of soldierfish, blue-striped snapper and black-sided horse-eyed jacks. |
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Red soldierfish blend into the colourful backdrop of encrusting sponges on the wreck of the Corveta va Ypiranga, a 60m dive at Fernando de Noronha. |
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Bright red blue-lined squirrelfish loiter, thinking they're unseen, in every shadowy overhang, while even redder soldierfish stay well inside the caverns. |
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As this undersea Argonaut cavorted amidst hordes of angel, parrot, trigger, soldierfish and more, this novice couldn't have had a better instructor. |
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