Dive Into Your Imagination

Skinny fish about six inches long, they look like a school of knives as they school and have been nicknamed razorfish or shrimpfish. They can hide amongst coral or seagrass. They are in the pipefish family and have bony plates. At night the color of their skin reflects light and they shine like metal. On the following page you can see a school of these fish hiding in blades of turtle grass.

Razorfish have long snouts and suck up plankton and other small critters as they move around. The photograph to the right shows detail of their mouths, they are pointy and don't chew their food, like seahorses and other pipefish they suck up their prey like a vacuum cleaner, never chewing it. On some night dives in Indonesia we have come across swarms of them with numbers of 500 fish. You want to swim for cover as they look like a ball of knives that could cut right through you. But razorfish do not like the light, so they swim away from divers.

These wild looking fish are fun to watch as they swim along the reef!

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