Dive Details
Location
Pixies Reef (Ribbon Reef #9)
Date
15 September, 2002
Time
1:04pm - 2:16pm
Seas
Slight
Visibility
15
Duration
67 minutes
Maximum depth
4.7 m
Average depth
11.1 m
Water temperature
25°C
Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand
Tides
High
12:15pm
1.01m
High
5:23am
1.70m
Low
11:20am
0.73m
High
6:15pm
2.56m
Species Seen
Species
Common name
Size
(mm)
Number
Fairy Basslet
Medium
Many
Purple Anthias
Medium
Many
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Large
Few
Citron Butterflyfish
Medium
Few
Saddled Butterflyfish
Medium
Few
Klein's Butterflyfish
Large
Many
Lined Butterflyfish
Large
Few
Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish
Medium
Few
Rainford's Butterflyfish
Large
Few
Oval-Spot Butterflyfish
Medium
1
Double-saddle Butterflyfish
Large
Few
Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish
Medium
Few
Forcipiger longirostris
Longnose Butterflyfish
Large
Few
Pennant Bannerfish
Large
Few
Bicolor Angel
Large
Many
Coral Beauty
Large
Many
Pearly-scaled Angel
Large
Many
Regal Angelfish
Large
Few
Spinecheek Anemonefish
Large
Few
Spinecheek Anemonefish
Small
Few
Arc-eye Hawkfish
Medium
Few
Blackside Hawkfish
Medium
Few
Anampses meleagrides
Spotted Wrasse
Large
1
Black-backed Wrasse
Large
Many
Gomphorus varius
Bird Wrasse
Medium
Many
Yellow Wrasse
Small
1
Bicolour Cleaner Wrasse
Large
2
Cleaner Wrasse
Large
Many
Cleaner Wrasse
Medium
1
Red Firefish
Medium
1
Mimic Surgeonfish
Large
Few
Moorish Idol
Large
Few
Brown Sailfin Tang
Medium
Many
Brown Sailfin Tang
Large
Many
Bluelined Rabbitfish
Large
2
Medium
1
Notes
Silver Forcipiger sp. in cave. Pipefish