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The shrimpgoby (Amblyeleotris sp.) shares its hole with a shrimp (usually blind). The fish keeps a lookout and lets the shrimp know when it should hide.
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Blennies like to hide in holes and poke their heads out to see if the coast is clear.
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Blennies also hide in other discarded safe spaces, like this old clam shell.
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Garden eels, liked these four spotted garden eels (Heteroconger hassi) make their homes in sandy flats, and you can often look off in the distance and see them waving around a foot or more out of their holes.
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Coralblenny's make their homes inside holes in coral heads.
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This mantis shrimp (Lysiosquilla sp.) was well camouflaged in the sand.
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The Christmas tree worm (Spirobranchus sp.) can suck itself down into its hole in the host coral. The black spot in front is its little trap door.
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This blue spot mantis shrimp (Haptosquilla stoliura) matches his surroundings exceptionally well.
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The wide-barred shrimpgoby (Amblyeleotris latifasciata)
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An unknown coral blenny.
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This Bug-eyed squat lobster (Munida olivarae) is keeping his business end forward.
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GThe grand coral worm snail (Serpulorbis grandis) can't decide what kind of creature it actually is...
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Blennies like holes.
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This coral hermit crab (Paguritta sp.) is decidedly right-handed.
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This damselfish was hanging out inside of a giant basket star (Astroboa nuda)