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Leaf fish

Swim, Snorkel, Dive, See, Meet, Watch the Leaf fish

Leaffish live in coral reefs and along the coast, between a few meters below the surface and 100 m below the surface. It likes small sandy areas, with flat areas covered with corals on which it can remain stable. It is often isolated but two to three-leaf fish can be found in the same area. It sheds its skin like a snake.

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Taenianotus triacanthus
Macro
Poisson balance, Poisson scorpion feuille, Leaf scorpionfish, Paperfish, Taenianotus triacanthus

Food

The Leaffish hunts on the look-out camped on its two pectoral fins. It swings and imitates the movement of a leaf or algae, in perfect camouflage and with a color that varies. The cut-out of its dorsal fin, equipped with venomous spines. resembles a leaf or a serrated sail.

Breeding

It is an oviparous fish that lays eggs in open water.


Dive centers

 

Planet Bali Dive
Indonesia  - Sanur
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Planet Bali Dive is located along the main street of Sanur, Bali. Here you can take PADI courses from beginner to professional level. You book a snorkeling trip to Nusa Penida with 3 different dive sites for you to go snorkeling while the rest of the team goes diving. Planet Bali Dive offers good quality equipment, towels are provided and you have water bottles, tea, and coffee on the boat. The team is friendly, available, and attentive. We advise you to make in company of the guides of Planet Bali Dive, a great dive in Tepekong, an island in the north-east of Bali. You leave by minibus to the departure point of the boat, on which you embark. The divemasters and the captains of the boat know perfectly well the places where the dives take place and are therefore particularly successful on places where turtles, napoleon fish, rays, and moray eels abound. Take a more distant excursion north of Bali to Pemuteran, a small village near the Taman National Park Bali. You visit the most popular dive sites around Menjangan Island, as well as the 9 other popular dive sites with Temple, BioRock, and Napoleon Reef. Photographers will enjoy the 23°C water at Secret Bay, where fishes take refuge and where incredible invertebrates develop. They escape here from the strong tidal currents of the strait and you have all the leisure to observe them here. [+]

  • Manta Rays Watching
  • Popular dive sites
  • Diving around Islands
From 80,00 €

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Joe’s Gone Diving Bali
Indonesia  - Sanur
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Joe's Gone Diving Bali is located in Sanur, on the island of Bali. You are welcomed in spacious premises with showers, lockers and a terrace to relax before and after the dives, a garden, a classroom with air conditioning, a large swimming pool built for diving exercises and a small dive shop to buy or rent diving equipment. For divers wearing glasses, prescription masks are available. There are free transfers between the hotels and the dive centre or sites from the Sanur and Kuta areas. Joe's Gone Diving is a 5 star PADI IDC dive centre offering high quality training according to PADI standards for internationally recognised certifications. The instructors, both Western and Indonesian, are multilingual and... are passionate about diving, very keen to introduce you to the incredible marine life around Bali and to teach you how to scuba dive. The underwater trips take place in small groups with a personalised approach for those who request it. Pre and post dive briefings are available in your own language. All the divers' equipment is rinsed by the staff. Believing that divers' free time is precious with few holidays in the year, Joe's Gone Diving allows you to escape from the daily constraints of diving, saving you from logistical and administrative burdens. You are diving sustainably here with eco responsible actions to protect Bali's reefs. This is a Shark Guardian dive centre that supports the preservation of sharks and the protection of marine space around the world. Joe's Gone Diving has received the PADI Green Star Award for its eco responsible approach. [+]

  • PADI IDC*****
  • Different diving area
  • Diving around Islands
From 41,16 €

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Meridian Adventure Dive Resort
Indonesia  - Waisai
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The Meridian Adventure Dive Resort is located in Waisai, Waigeo Island in the Raja Ampat, close to the ferry terminal. It can be reached by taking the ferry (2 hrs). Composed of a bar and restaurant, swimming pool, sunset deck lounge, and diving club, it has 30 modern and comfortable air-conditioned rooms, each with a double bed or two twin beds. WIFI is available 24 hours a day. There is a flat-screen TV, hairdryer, clock radio, safe and international plugs with 220 volts. The restaurant bar, well-stocked with juices, sodas, beer, and wines, offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well as the best cocktails from Raja Ampat including ACC Angga's Coconut Classic! All packages include overnight stay in an air-conditioned room, breakfast, 2 dives during the same outing in the morning and/or the same in the afternoon, diving equipment and a GoPro film shot by the dive guides. Dinner and lunch are always extra. It's easy to explore the Raja Ampat thanks to comfortable boats specially designed with good motorization. It is ideal for photographers looking for macro photography with pygmy seahorses and electric clams or lovers of dugongs, epaulette sharks, black mantas. We even dive on a wreck from the Second World War. The Meridian is a meeting point for the crews of the Wasai Marina boats so that people from all over the world can exchange ideas. Ecological actions are made by Meridian Adventure Dive Resort with the purchase of local products. The resort's restaurant does not compete with local kitchens. Sunscreen creams must not contain oxybenzone. Beach clean-ups are organized. [+]

  • Accomodations and diving
  • Protected Marine Park
  • + 60 dive sites
From 105,84 €

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Two Fish Divers Lembongan
Indonesia  - Nusa Lembongan
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Two Fish Divers is located on Nusa Lembongan, just a 5-minute walk from a white sandy beach and 25 minutes from Sanur by speed boat, near the traditional village of Jungutbatu. Nusa Lembongan is a small, traffic-free paradise, with beautiful scenery, away from the hustle and bustle of Bali, ideal for great diving! You will stay in this resort composed of ten villas with air-conditioned and ventilated rooms with double or twin beds, a bathroom with continuous hot and cold water. You benefit from terraces where you can sip coffee, tea, and drinking water. Wi-Fi is free of charge. Enjoy an excellent breakfast in the resort's large restaurant. At the end of the day, relax with a toast of fresh fruit juice or a cool Bitung in the cafe-bar by the pool with the other divers. The dive center even organizes barbecues for divers to get together! Relax in the furnished relaxation corners, with a TV to watch a film and even a library where you can exchange books. However, if your budget is tight, there are many small hotels, warungs, less than 5 minutes from the resort. Meet in the morning at the dive center to check your equipment and then head to the dive boat. The staff has already installed your personal equipment on board! A beautiful day awaits you in perspective! Here, we also welcome groups of up to 16 divers. [+]

  • Comfortable boat
  • Located close to the dive sites
  • Accomodations
From 25,90 €

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Mimpi Dive Resort Menjangan
Indonesia  - Pejarakan
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The Mimpi Divers Menjangan is located in the north of Bali, close to the island of Menjangan. The Mimpi Divers is located inside a very nice resort spread over a huge park of several hectares and including 2 swimming pools with sea and mangrove views. The rooms, with wifi and air-conditioning, have a terrace, which is ideal for having an aperitif in the evening, in the sunset! The resort is quite isolated, at the end of a bumpy road. Make the most of your 3-day and 2-night stays here, including Honeymoon mini-stays, including a snorkeling trip, or even try your hand at diving for those just starting out. Basic PADI training is provided for those who wish to go further with 3 days. From here you also have access to several popular diving areas including Menjangan Island, called Deer Island, located in the Barat National Park. With the boat, you can go on half-day and full-day trips for 2 or 3 dives in front of drop offs or in caves covered with sponges and gorgonians. The more experienced divers can enjoy exploring the Anker Wreck, a wooden shipwreck from the 19th century, with its anchor set on a depth of 8 metres. Quiet or night dives take place at the House Reef, Lagoon Channel and Shallow Water, a 5-minute boat ride away. Excursions are organised as far as Pemuteran to observe the underwater implantation of artificial reefs which recreate ideal conditions for coral proliferation. Gilimanuk, a 40-minute drive from Pemuteran, is popular for its Secret Bay, a muck diving spot at a depth of around 10 metres, where you can see animal species identical to those in Lembeh. A delight for photographers and bio enthusiasts! [+]

  • Located close to the dive sites
  • Stay without a car
  • Accomodations
From 68,50 €

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Where to see, swim, and dive with Leaf fish ?

Indonesia - AlorIndonesia - Ambon IslandIndonesia - Amed, BaliIndonesia - BaliIndonesia - Bangka, Talise, GanggaIndonesia - Bunaken and Siladen, SulawesiIndonesia - Karimunjawa, JavaIndonesia - LembehIndonesia - Manado, Sulawesi Indonesia - Maumere, FlorèsIndonesia - North Sulawesi IslandIndonesia - Padangbai and Candidasa, BaliIndonesia - Permuteran, BaliIndonesia - Raja Ampat, in WasaiIndonesia - Tulamben, BaliIndonesia - WakatobiMaldives - Amari Havodda Island, Gaafu Dhaalu AtollMaldives - Angaga Island, Ari Atoll Maldives - Dhuni Kolhu Island, Baa Atoll Maldives - Filitheyo Island, Nilandhe AtollMaldives - Kandooma Island, South Male Atoll Maldives - Kuredu Island, Lhaviyani Atoll Maldives - Maayafushi Island, Ari Atoll North Maldives - North Atolls MaldivesMaldives - South Maldives Maldives - Vilamendhoo Island, Ari Atoll South Africa - Sodwana BayThailand - Gulf of ThailandThailand - Koh LantaThailand - Koh Tao

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Indonesia - Alor.
Indonesia - Ambon.
Indonesia - Bali.
Indonesia - Bangka.
Indonesia - Bunaken.
Indonesia - Karimunjawa.
Indonesia - Sulawesi.
Indonesia - Flores.
Indonesia - Raja Ampat.
Indonesia - Wakatobi.
Maldives - Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll
Maldives - Ari Atoll
Maldives - Baa Atoll
Maldives - Filitheyo
Maldives - Male Atoll
Maldives - Kuredu
Thailand - Koh Lanta
Thailand - Koh Tao
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
South Africa - Sodwana Bay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thailand - Koh Tao
 
 
 
 
 
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