Some days as we dive, we encounter so many small fish up in the water column, foraging, that it seems like it's raining fishes. In fact a restaurant in Bonaire is named "It Rains Fishes". Today was one of those days. Schools of brown chromis were moving up and down, back and forth, feeding. Swimming in the midst of these schools is a nice feeling. It's hard to capture the experience in photos, but I tried.
The fish in the photos above were about 4 inches in length.
Juvenile brown chromis (about 1.5 inches, above) stay a little closer to shelter where they can escape from predators.
This is a close-up of a brown chromis. They sometimes swim down to the reef to solicit cleaning from cleaner fish. The photo doesn't show any cleaners, but I believe this fish was trying to be cleaned.
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