We met as a class this morning to come up with a research question surrounding the vertebrates we had seen around the reefs the day before. We decided we wanted to look into the parrotfish species and what their behaviors and eating habits are.

We went out in the reef just off our dock  and searched for our assigned species of parrotfish – mine being red band parrotfish. In the afternoon we went to two more reefs to continue our searches!

During my search for red bands I also came across two more trumpetfish. One was a smaller one around 15 cm again found in yellow sea rods, and the other was closer to 50 cm and also found within tall vertical soft corals with finger like extremities. They like to hide their face down at the root and camouflage to make them look like just another one of the coral extensions.