Reef behaviors
Every behavior here happens in Spinyhead, a free browser game about life as a tiny Caribbean reef fish, and every one is drawn from field research. Watch each one, then play and find them yourself.
Cleaning

Posing for the cleanersCleaning

An honest approachCleaning

A change of colourCleaning

Into the jawsCleaning
Cleaning gobies
Octopus
Queen triggerfish
Urchins
Plankton pickers
Sea rods
Predators
Holes
Breeding
By species
- blue chromis Chromis cyanea 2 behaviors
- bluehead wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum 3 behaviors
- brain coral 1 behavior
- Caribbean reef shark Carcharhinus perezi 1 behavior
- common octopus Octopus vulgaris 1 behavior
- coney Cephalopholis fulva 4 behaviors
- elkhorn coral Acropora palmata 1 behavior
- graysby Cephalopholis cruentata 4 behaviors
- great star coral Montastraea cavernosa 1 behavior
- long-spined sea urchin Diadema antillarum 2 behaviors
- massive starlet coral Siderastrea siderea 1 behavior
- parasitic copepods Copepoda 4 behaviors
- Pederson's cleaner shrimp Ancylomenes pedersoni 1 behavior
- queen triggerfish Balistes vetula 1 behavior
- schoolmaster snapper Lutjanus apodus 4 behaviors
- sea rods (gorgonians) Plexauridae 1 behavior
- sharknose goby Elacatinus evelynae 5 behaviors
- spinyhead blenny Acanthemblemaria spinosa 6 behaviors
- spotted moray Gymnothorax moringa 1 behavior
- trumpetfish Aulostomus maculatus 2 behaviors









