Cushion starfish with smaller starfish species in situ

Spiny lobster - Panulirus sp.

Can you find the crab in the artificial reef habitat?

Looking straight down at a spiny lobster - Panulirus sp.

Diver's eyeview of loitering sharks - Carcharinus sp.

Common inshore red goatfish - Parupeneus porphyreus These fish feed on small crustaceans and swallow them whole.

Dascyllus albisella - a type of damselfish with a spaghetti tag for tracing movement on artificial reef.

Wrasse - Cheilio inermis

Damselfish - Chromis ovalis

Butterfly fish (top) - Chaetodon corallicola; bottom left Dascyllus albisella damselfish.

Wrasse (center); Butterfly fish to right Cheaetodon fremblii

Squirrelfish - Holocentrus berndti - known as menpachi locally Note sand waves in pipe from current

Squirrelfish - Holocentrus berndti - known as menpachi locally

Surgeonfish - Ctenochaetus strigosus

Wrasse - Cheilio inermis

School of goatfish - Parupeneus pleurostigma

Schooling surgeonfish -Acanthuris sandvicensis (manini or convict tang)

Surgeonfish - Acanthuris dussumieri - known as palani locally This fish is swimming near new pipe artificial reef with no growth. Among first to discover new artificial reef.

Schooling surgeonfish -Acanthuris sandvicensis (manini or convict tang) Schooling with yellow tang - Zebrasoma flavescens Among first to discover new artificial reef.

Two types of butterfly fish and two types of wrasse

Fish eating egg-mass attached to pipe from damselfish spawning

Night dive discovers manini sleeping. Surgeonfish -Acanthuris sandvicensis (manini or convict tang)

Three moorish idols - Zanclus canescens -

Spiny puffer, a porcupine fish - Diodon hystrix Observed on a night dive

Large fish a surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus; red striped fish is goatfish Parupeneus sp.

School of goatfish - Parupeneus pleurostigma

Schooling surgeonfish -Acanthuris sandvicensis (manini or convict tang) Acanthaster planci - crown of thorns starfish on seafloor.

Dascyllus albisella -damselfish exploring new reef material.

Acanthurus olivaceus - surgeonfish grazing on algae on new reef material. Demonstrates artificial reef contribution to food chain. Murky waters occurred under certain conditions of current and swell. Fish biomass increased greatly during murky water episodes.

Unidentified species of octopus silhouetted in pipe entrance.

Wrasse - Bodianus bilunulatus

Trumpetfish - Aulostomus chinensis - eye and mouth to right in photo.

Surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus - grazing on new reef material. Demonstrates artificial reef contribution to food chain.

Surgeonfish - Acanthuris dussumieri - known as palani locally

Filefish - Alutera scripta aspect of photo is deceiving, fish is actually flat.

Surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus - grazing on new reef material. White fish is triggerfish - Balistes sp.

Dascyllus albisella -damselfish looking head on at photographer. Surgeonfish - Acanthurus olivaceus - in background grazing on reef material.

Dascyllus albisella -damselfish with butterfly Chaetodon ephippium This butterfly is rare in Hawaii.

School of goatfish - Parupeneus multifasciatus ( Known as moano).

Dascylus albisella - damselfish

Natural coral -Porites sp. - among artificial reef materials. Yellow tang in foreground - Zebrosoma flavescens.

Goatfish school - Mulloidichthys samoensis (Known as weke.)

Description not available.

Mixed school of Heniochus acuminatus, Zebrasoma flavescens

Thalasomma duperreyi(Blue Wrasse) and goatfish Parapeneus multifasciatus (Moano) These fish are next to an exclusion cage that prevents grazing in order to study the effects of fish on benthic algal growth.

School of Mulloidichthys samoensis (Weke) in large concrete pipe. This was soon after the placement of the artificial reef.

School of Mulloidichthys samoensis (Weke) in large concrete pipe. This was soon after the placement of the artificial reef.

Heniochus acuminatus, a butterfly fish in 110 feet of water. This is just outside of the artificial reef.

Large school of the surgeon fish, Naso unicornis. These fish were generally seen on low visibility days on reef.

A typical school of the sparid, Montaxis grandoculis (Mu). This fish primarily eats molluscs.