The larger fish
include humphead wrasse, schools of large batfish and small white-tip reef sharks.
These fish live in deeper water than
ballan wrasse, usually from 10 meters downwards to 30 m below sea level.
Wrasse species.
Wildlife is rich around the wreck, particularly crabs, lobsters and
ballan wrasse.
Wrasses found
in british waters.
You
see huge wrasse, and my buddy once saw a solitary dolphin on the wreck.
Plankton rich waters attract over 900 species of fish, ranging from
cleaner wrasse
through to whale sharks.
Wrasse fish
live in the sea between 10 and 30 m deep.
At ' the corner ' the currents pick up and the
napoleon wrasse
& eagle rays come out to play.
The pulpit rock area is famous for
large wrasse
which are usually returned alive.
The
humphead wrasse, that can fetch up to $ 130 per kilo in the live reef fish trade, has also benefited.
Known to eat small gobies, small blennies and
small wrasse, but not the butterfish, pholis gunnellus.
I have seen beautiful blue-and-gold male
cuckoo wrasse
here, a rare sight on the east coast.
I stopped to photograph one of the
colorful ballan wrasse
that frequent this part of the wreck.
Around 8 huge giant
maori wrasse, biggest any of us had ever seen, lurking around too.
Its deck is comprehensively encrusted with sponges and corals, and patrolled by giant
maori wrasse
and jacks.
Again there was plenty of life with spider crabs,
rainbow wrasse
and shoals of larger fish above.
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