There is a lot of action in our reef, if only you take a closer look to fish behavior you will be able to discover this. Here we can see two fishes swimming together, a queen parrot fish and a trumpet fish. This is called shadowing, is a specific hunting strategy from the trumpet fish. This fish is a predator, its name derives from the fact that he opens his mouth very widely getting the shape of a trumpet, producing a big suction and ingesting the prey. Little fish are afraid of trumpet fish and they swim away or hide when they spot it.

Parrot fish are algae eaters, they play a very important role in keeping the balance in the reef, by eating the algae, they clean up substrate for the coral to be able to colonize. So, how do we explain this connection between the trumpet fish and the parrot fish? The trumpet fish actually hides behind the parrot fish, as the parrot fish approaches the reef for grazing in the algae, the little fish around are not scared, because they know it is a vegetarian guy. Too bad for them, when the trumpet fish is shadowing parallel to the parrot fish, in a heartbeat it comes to the front, and there it goes, lunch!