Below a juvenile yellowtail coris that has almost finished in transition and a tiny one that has a good ways to go:

Short arm sand octopus series:

Attempting to hide by burying in the sand:

Realizing that that isn't working:

Tiny fry off Blackrock:

akule off Blackrock:

Giant Porcupinefish:

toby infested with parasites:

Larger fry at Blackrock:

Flagtails:

Longtail dragonet:

Boxcrabs presumably mating:

Backing into the sand to hide:

Floral Pufferfish (9-8-21):

Peacock flounder:

More fry at Blackrock:

Tiny peacock razor wrasse:

Floral Puffer hiding in the sand:

Blackside Razor Wrasse Juvenile:

The eyes follow you:

Horned Helmet on the move with a collector urchin in its path:

The urchin is now a meal.

Juvenile knobby sea star:

Staged in a coral rock with another star:

Next day the urchin taken by the horned helmet is in the same spot. The entry hole for evacuation is obvious:

The helmet is about 30' away on another urchin:

Anothe day and another juveinle knobby sea star:

It moved quickly off my watch.

Indigo dartfish:

The floral pufferfish was in the same area for a number of days.

Juvenile yellowtail coris starting transition (yellow tail is the start):

Adult male yellowtail coris:

The stripe on the side of this one dimmed out to not visible in the presence of another male that appeared to be dominate.

Another male that appeared to be domninate;

Back to a pair of juveniles where the lartger one is just in transition and the slightly smaller one almost done in transition:

The larger one on the right, below, appears smaller because it is further away from the wide angle lens:

Pair of eightline wrasses:

another day and another juvenile knobby sea star:

It quickly attached to my hand:

a real quick lift out of the water:

I left it on a rock but 15 minutes later it has disappeared.

9-15-21 and the floral pufferfish is still there:

No need to have eyes in the back of its head: