DIVE SITE
Magic Crack


A continuance of the gentle sand slope, the highlight of this dive is a coral and rubble patch stretching from 12 – 27 meters and is the best place in Lembeh to find thorny seahorses – up to 7 in a dive. There is a good cleaning station, a strong nudibranch representation, frogfish, ribbon eels, ghost pipefish and it is also a good spot for wonderpus. In the shallows towards the bay is sand, but there is a healthy hard coral garden to the side, stretching southward out of the bay. The site is named Magic Crack because it is between two other dive sites - Magic Rock and Retak Larry, with "Retak" meaning crack. Since it lies in the middle, one word was taken from each of the surrounding dive sites.

Depths
25m

Boat Rides
16 minutes

Habitats
Mixed
Critters
Found in This Divesite

Stargazer snake eel
Brachysomophis cirrocheilos

Zebra Lionfish
Dendrochirus zebra

Cockatoo waspfish
Ablabys taenianotus

Angler Flatfish
Asterorhombus fijiensis

Warty frogfish
Antennarius maculatus

Randall's frogfish
Antennarius randalli

Painted frogfish
Antennarius pictus

Hispid frogfish
Antennarius hispidus

Hairy frogfish
Antennarius striatus

Leafy Filefish
Chaetodermis penicilligera

Bristle-tail filefish
Acreichthys tomentosus

Trumpet Fish
Aulostomus chinensis

Black-saddled Toby
Canthigaster valentini

Fingerprint Toby
Canthigaster compressa

Black-spotted Puffer
Arothron nigropunctatus

White-spotted Puffer
Arothron hispidus

Striped Puffer
Arothron manilensis
Split Banded Cardinalfish
Apogon compressus
Three Band Anemone Fish
Amphiprion tricintus

Orange Anemone Fish
Amphiprion sandaracinos

Razorfish
Aeoliscus strigatus
Tripletail Wrasse
Cheilinus trilobatus

Skeleton shrimp
Caprellid sp.

Retusa Decorator Crab
Camposcia retusa

Spotted Box Crab
Calappa philargius

Tuberculate Night Anemone
Alicia sp.

Robustum Ascidian
Atriolum robustum

Grey bonnet
Cassis cornuta

Chelidonura varians
Chelidonura varians

Chromodoris annae Nudibranch
Chromodoris annae

Chromodoris magnifica Nudibranch
Chromodoris magnifica

Chromodoris elisabethina Nudibranch
Chromodoris elisabethina

Ceratosoma trilobatum Nudibranch
Ceratosoma trilobatum

Blue-ringed octopus
Hapalochlaena sp.

Coconut octopus or Veined octopus
Amphioctopus marginatus

Fire Urchin
Asthenosoma varium