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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

 

Papua Diving Kri Eco Resort
Indonesia  - Kri Island
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Papua Diving Kri Eco Resort is located on Kri Island where the Sorido Bay, owned by the same owner, is also located. These two resorts, open all year round, offer different types of luxury accommodation according to the divers' requirements. The packages include accommodation corresponding to different standings, with full board, full equipment rental, and above all... unlimited dives during this stay! Entry fees to the marine park are extra. As these resorts are located at 1h30 sailing time from Sorong, you have the choice of transfers which are free if you make your arrival and departure dates on Kri Island coincide, from a stay of more than 7 nights. The Kri Eco resort overlooks a side of the island and the Sorido is located on the seafront, just in front of the lagoon, a little set back. Kri Island is in the middle of the Dampier Strait. Many popular dive sites are located nearby, drained by currents and frequented by pelagics. You can swim amongst a large school of humpback parrots at Sardine Reef, take a beautiful drift over an exploding coral reef at Cape Kri, watch a great festival at Blue Magic, spot wepegon carpet sharks around Mioskon Island, and see manta rays in profusion at Manta Ridge and Manta Point. Papua Diving Kri Eco Resort is a very nice address, well situated in relation to exceptional sites! [+]

  • Located close to the dive sites
  • Free Nitrox
  • PADI Dive Centre *****
From 45,00 €

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Bali Dive Trek
Indonesia  - Amed
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Bali Dive Trek is located in Amed, on the east coast of Bali. As it is a dive resort, you benefit from on-site accommodation at Bunga Laut Bungalows & Dive Resort, full of charm, in a pretty green garden. This resort has been created to meet the exact needs of divers of all levels with, as a bonus, a beautiful view of Mount Agung and the hills of Seraya. Bali Dive Trek offers recreational SSI and teak training with TDI/ IANTD. At the end of the course, you get the digital certification card and for those who need it, you receive a logbook. Take advantage of the opportunity to explore the popular area between Amed and Tulamben with an appointment at 8 am and a return at 2:30 pm. Sea trips include drinks (water, tea, and coffee), full equipment rental, a confirmed and certified guide, transfers to and from your hotel from Amed or Tulamben. You can even dive with nitrox if you are a certified diver. Get free pictures of your underwater exploits! And don't forget to bring for each outing, your swimsuit and towel and of course, a waterproof bag, a hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, and a snack! Bali Dive Trek also organizes excursions to diving spots in Nusa Penida, such as the very popular Manta Point and Crystal Bay to make great encounters with manta rays and sunfish! In Tulamben, you tour the USAT wrecks Liberty and Boga and then on to Embral and Palung. Linger in the muck dive spots to make nice macro pictures very popular with divers in Seraya 1 and 2 as well as in Batu Belah and Sidem and in Melasti and Cafe Garam with toadfish and leaf fish. Embark on safaris around Bali - Bali Dive Trek picks you up at the airport - which allows you to change dive sites every day and get to know this fascinating island that is Bali. I promise you will be seduced by the friendliness of the inhabitants, their fascinating culture, the rice [+]

  • Tek Center
  • Free Nitrox
  • SSI Training
From 52,38 €

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Blue Season Bali
Indonesia  - Sanur
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Blue Season Bali is located in Sanur, on the island of Bali. It is a Career Development Centre, a PADI 5 Star CDC Resort, where a beginner is trained up to Instructor level. You have the incredible chance to spend an Open Water Diver in 3 days while making beautiful encounters depending on the season, with a mola mola or snorkelling among manta rays or watching frogfish, making a night dive in the wreck of Tulamben, in beautiful landscapes of terraced rice fields and volcanoes! Don't hesitate to spend a day in Nusa Penida to see the mola mola from July to October as well as majestic manta rays. A diversion to Tulamben allows you to dive on a World War II shipwreck. A stop at Puri jati and Secret Bay is ideal for observing ghost pipe fish, fish rhinopias, mandarin and stonefish and will delight macro photographers. Experienced divers will be enchanted by the Mola Mola and Manta Madness safaris, photographers will enjoy Beautiful Bali. Blue Season Bali takes care of the logistics, all you have to do is to palm your eyes open. Indeed, transfers from the hotel, guides, divemaster or PADI instructor supervising a maximum of 4 divers each, equipment which is transported and washed by the staff, lunch including bottled water, tea, coffee and towels are included in all services. Of course, hotels are included every evening during the safaris. All combinations between dive sites are then possible from Nusa Penida to Menjangan Island. Then spend a night in the West Bali National Park at the Menjangan Resort and board a local boat from its own jetty to Menjangan Island. [+]

    From 63,32 €

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    Ocean dream Permuteran
    Indonesia  - Pemuteran
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    Ocean Dream is located in Permuteran, on the north coast of Bali. It is an "innovative dive centre", as it calls itself! The aim is to offer a family atmosphere with a team of guides and instructors who are ready to share their passion for the sea and diving. The local guides are really specialised in macro and will find you everything you came here to see. As they spend about 3 hours a day underwater, they spot the animals and their movements in advance and will introduce them to you as you dive. The instructors offer you good level SSI training, from beginner to instructor, with instructors who speak several languages, so necessarily yours. The equipment is regularly tested and the compressor is carefully maintained by technicians to ensure the quality of the air you breathe. Here you rent equipment including Suunto computers and cameras for those who wish to bring home souvenirs. Ask your guide to take a picture of you, he will be happy to do so! You will be picked up from the hotel in the morning and taken back to the diving day. WIFI is free at the centre. Ocean Dream participates in the protection of the environment by avoiding the access of some very fragile sites such as the muck dive and coral gardens to novice divers who have not yet mastered buoyancy. [+]

    • Accomodations
    • Friendly atmosphere
    • SSI Training
    From 6,91 €

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    Ankermi Happy Dive
    Indonesia  - Maumere
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    Ankermi-Happy Dive Resort has located 29 km from the town center of Maumere, east of the island of Flores, 500 km from Labuan Bajo and the Komodo Islands. Founded by Kermi, of Javanese origin, and Claudia, a Swiss, this dive resort is located on the beachfront, surrounded by a rice field, banana trees, coconut palms, and a bamboo forest. It has 24 hours of electricity, so you have plenty of time to charge your camera batteries. The infrastructure is comfortable with a room to store equipment neatly, a large classroom, a library corner. The dives, suitable for beginner or intermediate divers, are varied with muck dives ideal for discovering rare and strange creatures living in the sand and mud such as frogfish, nudibranchs, Ambon scorpions, and mimic octopus. A Japanese shipwreck dating from the Second World War is nearby. Early in the morning, board the 9m long wooden fishing boats for an hour trip to Pulau Babi, Besar, and Pangabatang to explore drop-offs covered with hard and soft corals and small passes around the islands. The resort's resident captain knows exactly where the dive sites are, where the divers are going to go out at the end of the dive, and how to help them with the equipment. For safety reasons, the current is checked before diving. The dives are no-decompression dives. There is no time limit imposed, only the air consumption of the participant's counts. You have the possibility to dive at the resort even if you don't stay overnight. [+]

    • Distance to House Reef 30 to 50 m
    • Diving around Islands
    • Whale Watching
    From 5,76 €

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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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