Whitetips feed at night and their usual shy attitude during daytime disappear completely. You swim with hundreds of sharks when diving at night on Cocos. This dive is one of my all-time favorites.

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Whitetip Reef Shark

Using its large mouth, the trunkfish expel a jet of water on the seabed to reveal hidden treats like worms and small crustaceans.

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Smooth Trunkfish

A hermit crab's home is the shell of a gastropod, usually snails. As they grow, larger shells are required. However, suitable intact shells are of limited resource and competition for the best shell among hermit crabs is common. If a crab looking for new vacancy finds a shell that is too large, it will stay in its current shell and wait by the vacant shell for other hermit crabs to arrive. As other crabs arrive and check the shell, they will do the same and when finally one finds the vacant shell suitable, each crab exchange shells in sequence.