Meeting with inimicus filamentosus

Inimicus filamentosus belongs to the family Scorpenidae. It is relative to scorpion fish, stonefish and lionfish. It occurs in Red sea, Arabic sea and also in Indian ocean in depth 10-55m. It could grow to the size of maximum 25cm. First what will catch your eye at inimicus are very nice and atractive coloured yellow-orange fins. Unfortunately when it´s not disturb, or it´s not trying to warn you, sits secretly and without move on the sea bottom and you could hardly see inimicus . The colour could be watched after inimicus strech it´s fins. It has also poisons sticks as others from scorpenidaes. This is why you have to be very carefull. Inimicus has also very unusual movement. It could swim for short distance but could also walk by free fin´s bones which it uses as walking legs (from this came his english name walkman). You can find a typical print left behind inimicus very often. Meet this animal is really rare.

Egyptian sun shine trough the sea surface and blind me. I am on dive with some diving begginers. I show them some of the undersea animal all the time. Here swims shoal of urgeonfish, here is crocodile fish, there flounder- it seemed that they enjoy it and like it very much. Everything is new for them, so much colours, forms, animals and interesting things. Suddenly I saw on sandy bottom a walkman. It is not for my very first time to see this weird fish but I am soo excited. Inimicus belongs to the rare animals. Not because they are not common in the sea but because nobody notice them underwater. Hm, and I don´t have a camera with me. It is a pitty, I don´t have nice photo of this kind yet. Inimicus slowly goes on the sand. Alternately it puts up and down something like fingers and step by step it makes moving. Suddenly inimicus strechs it´s fins and runs quickly on the sand. Atractive yellow-orange colour could be now nicely seen. From invisible and maybe ugly fish is now gorgeous beauty by one movement. Inimicus mostly sits and waits for it´s prey, but this one is might on a trip. It directly continues on a adventurous journey.

In the afternoon we go again on a dive. Now I have camera with me. I would like to take a few photos of inimicus. I am looking everywhere but I see nothing. Now we are swimming near place where we saw it during first dive. It is nowhere. ,,Here, here...“ my buddy shows me. I looked again...and finally I see! Inimicus was hidden so well that I didn´t see it until it strechs it´s wings. Even I don´t see everything on the first look. Inimicus goes to the shiny sandy bottom...so we can see the real beauty of this amazing fish and I could make a good photos.