Gymnothorax favagineus

The black spotted moray is a white, sometimes yellow, moray with black spots. With some animals the pattern of these spots resembles that of a leopard. Adult animals often have some smaller spots that form sort of a honeycomb pattern. The animals live a solitary life and live in crevices in the reef, both on the inner- as on the outer reefs.
Animals living in clearer water usually have less black spots than animals living in turbid waters. Near the moray cleaner fish and cleaner shrimps live.
The length of the animals can vary but they can grow up to 2,5 meter.

Waking up to our last day of diving in Tofo Beach and we almost have to pinch ourselves. It is another beautiful sunrise over the Indian Ocean, with the sound of the waves gently breaking on the beach just in front of our chalet, and still one more day of diving to go. Yes, we had heard the stories, had seen the photos and watched the DVDs, but until we were here it was hard for us to believe it could be true. But here we were - one week of diving behind us and already we had had close encounters with more than seventy Manta Rays and twelve Whale Sharks!