Marine Life
What You Will See
Kasai Village and Moalboal’s reef offer some of the best coral, creature and fish variety in Asia. On any given dive, you are likely to see an abundance of reef fish: parrotfish (juvenile and adult), damselfish, butterfly fish, frog fish, angel fish and many others presented on almost every dive site. Grouper and snapper are healthy and you may see large schools of blue tang and creole wrasse. You are also likely to encounter at least one hawksbill or green turtle on every dive. If you do a few dives with us, you might be lucky to see whale shark, white tip reef shark, blue ring octopus, mandarine fish, ghost pipefish and harlequin shrimps.
On the dives themselves, we tend to point out creatures and “unusually shaped fish” such as shaded bat fish, trumpet fish, eels, trunk fish, pygmy seahorse to name a few. As far as creatures (non-fish), we also regularly see matis shrimp and slippe lobster. There is also a very interesting macro life, with many shrimps, crabs, blennies, gobies, nudibranchs and worms. Night dives also offer a different set with all the crustaceans out in the open, octopus, squid and even bioluminescence!
Our experienced dive guide and instructors are highly knowledgeable about the reef inhabitants and fish behaviors with a wealth of knowledge on different areas and interests. Sit down with us, consult the fish book and we will help you identify what you saw on your dives. We also have a large flat-screen TV in the shop where we regularly display slideshows of the things we have seen recently, video footage from dives and training experience. Even after thousands of dives, we are still just as excited to see our reef inhabitants like it’s our first time. We’re always on the lookout for finding something new.
The Galleries below are photos from our previous guests and staff that have caught the moment during their dives with Kasai Village Dive Team. We are very thankful to our generous divers for making this Marine Gallery possible. We update the gallery with more pictures soon as they become available.
Photography
Reef Fish
Identification Group 1
DISK-SHAPED/COLORFUL - Butterfly fishes – Angelfishes – Spadefishes
Identification Group 2
LARGE OVALS – Surgeonfishes – Moorish Idol – Rabbitfishes – Scats
Identification Group 3
SMALL OVALS – Damselfishes – Anemonefishes
Identification Group 4
SLOPING HEADS / TAPERED BODIES – Snappers – Coral Breams – Emperors – Seabreams
Identification Group 5
SILVERY – Jacks – Barracudas – Tunas & mackerels – Others
Identification Group 6
SLENDER SCHOOLERS / COLORFUL – Fusiliers – Anthias
Identification Group 7
HEAVY BODIES / LARGE LIPS - Groupers – Soapfishes – Hawkfishes – Sweetlips
Identification Group 8
SWIM WITH PECTORAL FINS – Parrotfishes
Identification Group 9
SWIM WITH PECTORAL FINS – WRASSES – Wrasses/Tuskfishes – Hogfishes – Razorfishes
Identification Group 10
REDDISH/BIG EYES – Soldierfishes – Squirrelfishes – Bigeyes
Identification Group 11
CARDINALFISHES & GLASSFISHES
Identification Group 12
CRYPTIC CREVICE DWELLERS – Basslets – Dottybacks – Devilfishes – Brotulas – Cuskeels
Identification Group 13
ELONGATE SAND & BURROW DWELLERS – Dartfishes – Tilefishes – Dragonets – Sandperches – Lizardfishes – Others
Identification Group 14
SMALL, ELONGATE BOTTOM DWELLERS – Gobies
Identification Group 15
SMALL. ELONGATE BOTTOM DWELLERS – Blennies
Identification Group 16
ODD-SHAPED BOTTOM DWELLERS – Frogfishes – Scorpionfishes & Lionfishes – Stonefishes – Waspfishes – Flatheads – Flounders & Soles – Others
Identification Group 17
ODD-SHAPED SWIMMERS – Boxfishes – Goatfishes – Sweepers – Triggerfishes – Filefishes – Puffers – Porcupinefishes – Others
Identification Group 18
PIPEFISHES & SEAHORSES
Identification Group 19
EELS
Identification Group 20
SHARKS & RAYS
Hard Corals
Soft Corals
Sponges
Feather Stars
Crab
Shrimps
Squat Lobsters
Sea Shells / Clamp / Snail
Sea Stars / Brittle Stars
Nudibranch
Worms
Cephalopods
Jellyfish
Turtles
