DIVE SITE
Rojos


ROJOS is named for our dive guides and crew that found the site while exploring. This includes Ronlad, Opo, Joni, Ona, and Salmon. The mix with coral and silts sandy slope and sandy bottom. Many critters that have been found here from ghost pipe fish, thorny sea horse, finger dragonet, warty frog fish, tiger shrimp, even blue ring octopus and mimic octopus. This plece is near a pearl farming area.

Depths
5 m – 26 m

Boat Rides
15 minute away

Habitats
Sand & Rubble

Photography
Macro
Critters
Found in This Divesite

Three-spot Seahorse
Hippocampus trimaculatus

Thorny Seahorse
Hippocampus histrix

Blue-dashed Rockskipper
Bleniella paula

Snake Blenny
Xiphasia setifer

Blackrayed Shrimpgoby
Stonogobiops nematodes

Banded Shrimpgoby
Cryptocentrus cinctus
Orange-dashed Goby
Valenciennea puellaris

Beautiful Goby
Exyrias bellisimus
Giant Lizardfish
Saurida sp.
Latticed Sandperch
Parapercis clathrata
Yellow Tail Sandperch
Parapercis sp.
Threadfin Sand Diver
Trichonotus elegans
Orange Stripe Worm Fish
Gunelichthys viridescens

Zebra Lionfish
Dendrochirus zebra

Common lionfish
Pterois volitans
Peacock Sole
Pardachirus pavoninus

Diamond Filefish
Rudarius excelsus
Yellow Margin Triggerfish
Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus
Starry Triggerfish
Abalistes stellatus
Cornet Fish
Fistularia commersonii

Trumpet Fish
Aulostomus chinensis
Freckled Goatfish
Upeneus tragula

Black-saddled Toby
Canthigaster valentini

Fingerprint Toby
Canthigaster compressa

Black-spotted Puffer
Arothron nigropunctatus

White-spotted Puffer
Arothron hispidus

Map Puffer
Arothron mappa

Striped Puffer
Arothron manilensis

Star Puffer
Arothron stellatus

Birdbeak burrfish
Cyclichtys orbicular
Urchin Siphon Fish
Siphamia versicolor
Emperor Snapper
Lutjanus sebae
Split Banded Cardinalfish
Apogon compressus

Clown Anemone Fish
Amphiprion percula
Three Band Anemone Fish
Amphiprion tricintus

Orange Anemone Fish
Amphiprion sandaracinos
Reef Needle Fish
Strongylura incisa
Keeltail Needle Fish
Platybelone argalus
Crocodile Needle Fish
Tylosurus crocodilus
Schooling Bannerfish
Heniochus diphreutes

Common Ghost Goby
Pleurosicya mossambica

Lemon Coral Goby
Gobiodon citrinus
Reticulated Damsel
Dascyllus reticulatus
Humbug Damsel
Dascyllus aruanus
Redbreasted Wrasse
Cheilinus fasciatus
Tripletail Wrasse
Cheilinus trilobatus
Peacock Razorfish Wrasse
Iniistius pavo
Dotted Sweet Lips
Plectorhinchus picus

Spotted Painted Sweetlips
Diagramma pictum
Oriental Sweet Lips
Plectorhinchus vittatus
Roving Coral Grouper
Plectropomus pessuliferus

Highfin Grouper
Epinephelus maculatus
Cloudy Grouper
Epinephelus erythrurus

Double Banded Soapfish
Diploprion bifasciatum

Blue Spotted Grouper
Cephalopholis cyanostigma

Chocolate Grouper
Cephalopholis boenak

Galathea squat lobster
Galathea sp.

Durban Hinge-beak shrimp
Rhynchocinetes durbanensis

Yellow dot Guard crab
Trapezia cymodoce

Crowned coral crab
Quadrella coronata

Retusa Decorator Crab
Camposcia retusa

Byfurcus Flat Worm
Pseudoceros byfurcus

Tuberculate Night Anemone
Alicia sp.

Night Anemone
Phyllodiscus sp.

Beaded Sea Anemone
Heteractis aurora

Molle Ascidian
Didemnum molle

Aurata Ascidian
Polycarpa aurata

Robustum Ascidian
Atriolum robustum

Tiger cowrie
Cypraea tigris

Chelidonura varians Nudibranch
Chelidonura varians

Phyllidiella pustulosa Nudibranch
Phyllidiella pustulosa

Chromodoris annae Nudibranch
Chromodoris annae

Goniobranchus reticulatus Nudibranch
Goniobranchus reticulatus

Melibe viridis Nudibranch
Melibe viridis

Phyllidia picta Nudibranch
Phyllidia picta

Goniobranchus hintuanensis Nudibranch
Goniobranchus hintuanensis

Chromodoris elisabethina Nudibranch
Chromodoris elisabethina

Needle Cuttlefish
Sepia aculeata

Fire Urchin
Asthenosoma varium

Diadema Sea Urchin
Diadema savignyi

Synaptula Sea Cucumber
Synaptula sp.

Anax Sea Cucumber
Theleonota anax

Brittle Star
Ophiothrix sp.