Spotted Garden Eel
Heteroconger hassi
Congridaefish40cm / 16inLeast Concern
About Spotted Garden Eel.
Slender colonial eel that sways from sand burrows in current, retracting like grass when divers approach.
Where it lives.
Sand slopes in gentle current near reefs
How it behaves.
Colonial burrow-dweller, feeds on drifting plankton