matt215
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Are there better times of year to see certain critters in Lembeh? Are blue ringed octopus more common during certain months? When are you most likely to see hairy frog fish? Etc...
Are Lembeh critters seasonal?
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pughio83
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Yes they are seasonal to a degree. BRO are being seen currently and have been since the peak in December with breeding season. Everything cycles. Hairy frogfish u will c all year round. Ghost pipefish vary with time of yr. when I went in dec there were few but in mar-July there were a lot. Cephalopods are quite abundant from what I hear in June and July. Water temps drop in July August and have low viz due to higher nutrients which means more critters. But to no honest I think it's good all yr. I am of there in a few weeks so am compare to December when I last went!
moonypixels
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I agree with pughio83's reply. Where I could see a massive difference was on the "Nudi-Sites" like Nudi Falls as a prime example. Diving during June to September we identified 96 different species of Nudi on a single dive whereas around November/December the count was just about a quarter of that. Generally speaking I believe that Lembeh's best diving is from May to September, where you get the highest density of critters, especially the ones with an annual cycle such as GPF for example. However, like Forrest Gump said about life, I say the same about diving. Diving is like a chocolate box and you never know what you're going to get. That's why we dive!
All diving is seasonal- a temperature swing in 'tropical' often makes for a more interesting diving season. The Red Sea for example has the best part of a 10degree Celsius swing, meaning May is very different from August.
Same goes for SE Asia- oceanic currents are driving different bodies of water through the many rifts and valleys which make up the underwater sea floor. These bodies of water can be quite different in the nutrients that they bring. Rainfall can also change the u/w world quite dramatically as it brings in sediment. In some places sediment is a bad thing- othertimes it's the lifeblood of the dive site.
Same goes for SE Asia- oceanic currents are driving different bodies of water through the many rifts and valleys which make up the underwater sea floor. These bodies of water can be quite different in the nutrients that they bring. Rainfall can also change the u/w world quite dramatically as it brings in sediment. In some places sediment is a bad thing- othertimes it's the lifeblood of the dive site.
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