Best of Mike #94

Winding his way thru the corals and soft corals as they so often do is a Two Spot Butterflyfish.

There are about 114 different varieties of Butterflyfish most of which are brightly colored and very often adorned with spots or stripes.

This particular one has an eyeball like spot at one end and the real eye at the other. The belief being that it will provide a moment of confusion to it's predators and a chance to escape.

They can be found on reefs everywhere, pecking at the coral in search of polyps, worms and other small invertebrates, that they call a meal.

At night they settle in to cracks or crevices on the reef, their bright colors fading to make them less visible to predators as they sleep.