Psychedelic Frogfish Slope
Dive site
This sloping rubble and sponge site is the most reliable address in the world — and effectively the only address in the world — for encounters with the psychedelic frogfish, a species described to science from Ambon Bay in 2009 and not confirmed anywhere else. It crawls across rubble on fleshy pectoral fins that function like legs, propelling itself with jet pulses from its gill openings. Its skin is patterned with radiating white stripes on an orange-red background, unique among all frogfish. The site also delivers regular Rhinopias on the deeper rubble terrace and occasional coconut octopus in the shallows.
Conditions
Depth
8 to 22 m
Open water and up
Current
Variable
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
5 to 12 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
25 to 30°C
3mm wetsuit
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water (°C) | 26 | 26 | 27 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 |
| Vis (m) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Current | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm | calm |
Your chances of seeing each animal
Coconut octopus
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Psychedelic frogfish
Rare
Now and then
Rhinopias leaf scorpionfish
Rare
Now and then
Robust ghost pipefish
Rare
Now and then
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