Andre Crone

For divers in tropical waters feather stars are a common sight. Almost all around the world feather stars bring colour to the under water environment. Despite its nice colours divers normaly do not pay too much attention to these animals. We are more likely to pay attention to all the fish around us; search for the bog animals and leave the feather stars on its own. We think of it as less interesting animals. But this means that we will miss a number of surprising meetings.

With it’s maximum length of only 2 centimeters the Hippocampus Denise is perhaps the smallest seahorse to be found in the see. As part of the family of Sygnathidae the seahorse really belongs to the fish. This little seahorse always lives together with a gorgonian in which it manages to hide splendidly. With its coloring, design and structure of its body it perfectly imitates the characteristics of the gorgonian. For us as a diver this means that you really have to look well to discover an animal. It is small and perfectly camouflaged.

The weedy sea dragon is closely related to the seahorses. It has gotten its name thanks to the leaf like appendages on its body. These appendages make sure the animal can hide very well between the kelp on the bottom of the sea. The weedy seadragon is only seen in the south of Australia and in Tasmania. It lives between three and fifty meters debt. It can reach a length of 45 centimeters. Their main color is orange/red and they have a big number of white spots on its body. Furthermore he has some bright blue stripes on its body and some yellow dots.

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