While frogfish are unusual anywhere, the longlure frogfish is the most common. Like this little guy they tend to hide among like-colored sponges, relying on really effective camouflage for protection. They rarely move unless they are disturbed and a difficult to spot unless they move. They are usually found in water between 10 and 60 feet. This guy was at about 12 feet.
My good friend and favorite dive buddy Darryl is really good at finding things like this. Once he found this guy he looked around and found another one nearby. Since they don't move much, we've gone to the same spot and found them several times.
Which brings up a question: Did these guys just get here or have they been here a long time and we just haven't seen them. We dive this particular site pretty often but we usually drop straight to about 25-30 feet. It is possible these guys just arrived a week or so ago. It is equally possible they've been here a while and we just cluelessly swam right past them.
But now that we know they are there, they are a regular "stop" on our dives at this site.
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