Our house reef is on fire at the time ! Several kinds of octopuses (Mimic , Wonderpuse, Blue ring, Mottoti ) are to be spotted at the moment in our house reef. Of course not only these beauties are hanging around for the pleasure of our guests, harlequin, decorators and porcelain crabs are legion as…
When diving in Indonesia it’s pretty much guaranteed that you will encounter numerous species of pufferfish. Pufferfish are one of the cutest fish but they are also one of the deadliest in the ocean. Read on to find out more… Species: There are more than 120 known species of pufferfish worldwide, many of which can…
In Tulamben we often find a school of fish. This school of fish always swim in circles, but why? And who decides in which direction they swim? There are two types of groups of fish, schools and schoals. Schools are highly organised groups of fish, while schoals is a loosely aggregated group of fish. Some…
This week we had the pleasure to show some beautiful Harlequin Shrimps to some of our Singaporean guests in the site called Seraya. A group of seventeen divers from Singapore joined TwoFish Amed this weekend for two days of diving in Tulamben. The objective was clear: “spot stuff”! Problem is, if I can say this way,…
There’s a group of cake urchins in our house reef in Amed. Contrary to what we can think Urchins are actually moving a lot, and these move together as a big group in the middle of a sandy bottom. We call them cake urchins (clypeasters) because of their pink/purple color which is kind of appealing…
Frogfish (Antennariidae) is a particular hunt for experienced divers – it’s a bit like searching a gold nugget in the sand or a Pokemon to be more modern. The Frogfish we found in our house reef at Twofish Amed are tiny ones. If some of them (Giant frogfish) can reach a maximum size of around…
This week we welcomed a group of divers used to dive with Twofish and seeking for great muck diving in Amed. What is amazing in Amed is the actual diversity of diving we can offer: wrecks, coral reefs, muck and walls are all around and we can easily combine them or focus on only one…
“It’s snowing pyramid butterflyfish” is what my student, Mokhtaria from France, shouted after we came up from her last advanced open water dive! She was beyond excited by the fish snow as she described it. With her 9th dive completed she has seen some incredible things here on Bunaken and she is very aware that…