Night diving on the house reef

Recently I started my night diving project on the house reef here at Lembeh. The reef fish are almost completely absent, with the exeption of a few stragglers. Most of the animals I've found so far have been in the shallows- 20 feet or less. They tend to be benthic feeders, meaning they live and search for food on the sea floor.
A couple nights ago I found a black-tipped catfish, which for me was a pretty unusual find! Like most catfish, this guy searches out his food using sensory barbels around his mouth, but unlike most catfish, he was impressively large, at least 2-3 feet in length. I first caught sight of him rooting around in his den, cleaning it out and sending up a silt cloud in the process.



Also commonly found at night are many colorful nudibranchs and tube dwelling anemones. If you catch the anemones with a slight current, their tentacles look quite beautiful swaying in the 'breeze'.
More pictures to follow as I log more dives!