Mandarinfish

Found in small schools, living in the branches of dense thickets of acropora corals, over shallow, sheltered, silty, coastal lagoons and inshore reefs.

Males have a taller more elaborate first dorsal fin which erects intermittently when moving around and for mating.
Every evening at sunset these beautiful fish rise up from the bottom to perform their dancing ritual before mating.

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