Pulau Hantu - A celebration of marine life

Secret lives and secret worlds hidden in Singapore's most popular coral reef.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Pretty worms



"WAAAAAA..." If that's what you're saying when you're looking at the worms above then that's just what we said too when we ran into them in the depths of Hantu.

These were photographed on Saturday mostly on the silty seabed of Hantu's northern channel. Aren't they just beautiful? Yes, all these in a day!

Well 4 of them are worms, two of them are sorta slugs. Can you tell them apart? It's crazy to discover these gorgeous animals in our waters. Our minds were really blown away. The environment looks almost inhospitable, yet these guys can sometimes be encountered swimming in midwater, to what seems to be nowhere! It's incredible and very exciting and encouraging.

Other things were saw were snappers, defensive damsels, dragonets, carpet eel blenny, icon starfish, pinna fanshells, gobies, and heaps and heaps of crabs.

Our reefs are healthy.