The ocean and its inhabitants inspire wonder, fuel curiosity, and invite discovery. As a marine life photographer and larval fish researcher, I document how marine fishes live in the wild and investigate how they grow, transform, and survive through their earliest and most fragile stages. Here you’ll find photo reports from my underwater encounters, along with detailed species culture research revealing what fishes need to thrive—and why so many remain challenging to raise.

Latest Photo Reports

Komodo’s Fishy Reefs

Komodo National Park’s underwater environment is one of the most hydrodynamically complex and ecologically vibrant marine ecosystems on Earth. The ...

A dense aggregation of Magnificent Sea Anemones at Coral Garden

Northeast Bali: Artificial Reefs, Juvenile Fish and More

Tulamben is a small fishing village on the northeast coast of Bali, Indonesia, about three hours by car from Denpasar ...

An Almaco Jack (Seriola rivoliana) hunts akule (Bigeye Scad, Selar crumenophthalmus) in a mega bait ball off Kona, Hawaiʻi.

Akule: Culture, Life History, and a Predator’s Feast

Schooling bait fish are one of the ocean’s great spectacles. Their fluid motion and ever-shifting silver forms are mesmerizing. When ...

Raja Ampat: Exploring more of Indonesia’s Ultimate Reef Paradise

Raja Ampat’s extraordinary marine biodiversity and pristine reefs make it a paradise for divers, snorkelers, and nature enthusiasts. Strong currents ...

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Latest Fish Culture Research

Cave Cardinalfish Culture

Cave Cardinalfish juveniles (Zapogon evermanni) were raised on copepods, rotifers, and Artemia. Larval duration was about 50 days. First documented ...

Dwarf Perchlet (Plectranthias nanus) juvenile (52 dph, 9.9 mm TL)

Dwarf Perchlet Culture

Dwarf Perchlet juveniles (Plectranthias nanus) were raised from captive-spawned eggs on rotifers, copepods, and Artemia. Larval duration was about 50 ...

Transitioning Schooling Bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes), 52 dph, 2025 culture trial.

Schooling Bannerfish Culture

Juvenile Schooling Bannerfish (Heniochus diphreutes) were raised from wild-spawned eggs in 2013 and again in 2025, using different larval rearing ...

Juvenile Shortnose Wrasse (Macropharyngodon geoffroy), 50 dph, raised in the laboratory

Shortnose Wrasse Culture

Juvenile Shortnose Wrasse (Macropharyngodon geoffroy) were reared from wild-collected eggs using cultured live foods and micropellets. Larval duration was 50 ...

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Underwater Photography

Motion blur of golden sweepers (Parapriacanthus ransonneti) schooling in cave. Papua New Guinea.

Three clownfish (A. perideraion) line up in their anemone home. Solomon Islands.

California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Bull patrolling at dusk.

A newly settled Powder Blue Tang stands out among a group of Dascyllus damselfishes, still carrying the compact proportions of its recent pelagic stage. Sangeang, Indonesia.

A lone manta ray (Manta birostris) in the distaince cruises by a cliff at dusk. Socorro.

Two blue sharks (Prionace glauca) at twilight off Rhode Island. Rhode Island.

A spot-tail frogfish (Lophiocharon trisignatus) with eggs at nght. Most frogfishes spawn gelatinous egg masses composed of thousands to millions of tiny eggs. Members of the subfamily Histiophryninae, such as Lophiocharon trisignatus, produce fewer but larger eggs than other frogfish species and carry them around until they hatch. Indonesia.

Don’t mess with my reef! A coral grouper (Cephalopholis miniata) in his soft coral garden - somewhere in Indonesia. Pretty fish as an adult but check out the larval form - with those huge spines.

Exquisite Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitus) in Palau.

Great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran) in the Bahamas.

Larval squid releasing ink. Papua New Guinea.

A stunning pair of regal angelfish (Pygoplites diacanthus) glide over the coral reef in the Solomon Islands—one displaying its classic coloration and the other a rare xanthic variation, glowing golden above a bed of Acropora sp.

Tiger snake eel (Myrichthys tigrinus). Can be seen in daylight searching for prey. Buried completely in the sand when inactive.

Flathead (Rogadius sp.) close-up. Indonesia.

Brightly colored sponges, starfish and anthias reef scene in Raja Ampat, Indonesia.

Colorful wrasses and butterflyfish gobble up Pacific sergeant eggs. Indonesia.

Anthias fill the water column above a colorful Komodo reef as an Emperor Angelfish moves through the foreground beneath the sunlit shallows. Central Komodo, Indonesia.

A school of bigeye trevally (C. sexfasciatus) races along sea cliffs under stormy seas off Socorro Island.

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) displaying its powerful flipper. Hawaii.

Snorkeling in the Galapagos Islands with adult king angelfish (Holocanthus passer) feeding on plankton. The shallows around the Galapagos Islands are so full of life - there’s almost no need to dive here. Galapagos Islands.

A close-up of the of the red pencil urchin (Heterocentrotus mammillatus) showing the spines and skeleton (test). The color pattern varies from red to brown. Pencil urchins are especially common in the sialnds. Back in the day, Hawaiians used the dried out spines to write with.

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