Happy Chinese New Year everyone and welcome in the year of the (sea) Dragon! The Lembeh Seadragon (Lembeh Pygmy Pipedragon, Kyonemichthys rumengani) is a recently dicovered species that has been seen for the first time in Lembeh Strait in 2006. It belongs to the Family of seahorses and pipefishes and is closer related to them…
This Picture of our Repeater Guest Mood shows a beautiful Pygmy seahorse found by our dive guide Paulus. Paulus has found already several of them over the last 10 years – but not many. And this is one of them. It is most probably a variation of the Denise Pygmy Seahorse and usually found in…
We found this Phycocaris species for the first time in October and since then already several times at different dive sites here in the Lembeh Strait. This one is now the 5th specimen we found and we have seen them in between 25 and 10 meters depth. It is always associated with the little green ascidians…
It is one of the most requested critters here in Lembeh Strait and the holy grail of muck diving fanatics: The extremely rare Hairy Octopus. And it is also exactly what our lovely guests Tom and Susan wanted to see. They have been here at NAD Lembeh already several times and the Hairy Octopus was…
To follow a guest request we went to see a sea fan with Denise Pygmy Seahorses on yesterday’s morning dives. This particular fan had 3 individuals living in it. As the seafan is easiely accessable from both sides, they are very cool to watch. Two of them had big blown up bellies and were obviously pregnant.…
Emperor Shrimps are famous for hitchhiking on other marine animals such as Sea Cucumbers and various Nudibranchs and they are frequently seen on Lembeh Strait’s beautiful black sand muck dives. But today i have seen one for the first time ever taking a ride on an adult female flamboyant cuttlefish. When photographing it the flamboyant…
No doubt: Diving in Lembeh is good all year round and there is always a lot to see. But still it is never the same and everytime you come you see some things more frequently and others less frequently. The last days i realized, that there are several members of the Aeolid Nudibranchs (the rather…
It’s “Baby Time” in Lembeh … or at least this it how seemes. This morning we bumped into a lot of juvenile critters on both dives. We saw juvenile frogfish (that fit on your thumbnail), various tiny juvenile nudibranchs (that would fit under your thumbnail;) ), several baby cuttlefish (also flamboyant cuttlefish), a tiny juvenile…
The main thing people come to Lembeh for is diving. And diving in Lembeh Strait does not only mean beeing in the water but more finding cool stuff, rare stuff, freaky stuff you don’t get to see in other places. This is why we put a lot of effort in having a top notch…
We had a fantastic morning today again with two beautiful dives here in Lembeh Strait – with a lot of things to see. Like for example Clown Frogfish, Ghostpipefishes in two colours, Ribbon Eels, Painted Frogfish, cool Nudibranchs, Gobies and Porcelain Crabs in Soft Corals and many other things. But my personal highlight was the…