My favorite butterfly

Fish of course.  Today's post features my favorite butterflyfish that occurs in Bonaire: the longsnout butterflyfish. This species is rather shy, and tends to hide under reef recesses, low on the reef.  These fish were about 3 inches long, and they don't grow much bigger.  The photos were taken just below 50 feet.  This is a delicate little fish, that flits around the reef.

This is what most of my photos have looked like, with the fish fleeing .

Here you can see the long snout