Red Bigeye (Heteropriacanthus carolinus)
Dot-dash Butterflyfish
Blueheaded Wrasse
Blue-Spined Unicornfish
Weeping Toadfish
Yellow Moon Wrasse
Half and Half Puller
Neon Damsel
The water has cooled to 20 degrees but it was still surprising to find a few tropicals clinging on and a new fish I haven’t ever seen before, the Blotched Bigeye. Not a very nice name and it was a fortuitous find as I was photographing another fish when these eyes kept coming into the side of the viewfinder, and they are big eyes!
A larger than normally found bluehead wrasse was cruising the reef, with the blue and yellow moon wrasse, and I even found a dot-dash butterflyfish, the first I think I have found this year. A few Half and Half Puller remain, plenty of iridescent Neon Damsels, even a Fire Damsel.
Plenty to see in relatively clear water
Fish of Cabbage Tree Bay Aquatic Reserve, Sydney 
Wow still so many tropicals 🙂 How many Half-and-half Pullers have you seen in the reserve?
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