Dolphin House
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About this site
Dolphin House is a dive site on the coast at Moalboal, in the Philippines, with a reef top over a steep wall. The reef top provides plenty of habitat for smaller marine life such as pipefish, lionfish and pufferfish.
At about 26 metres the steep wall has many overhangs where nudibranchs and various shrimps are found. Whip corals and tube sponges give the wall its shapes and colours, and pygmy seahorses can sometimes be found in the gorgonian sea fans. Other life includes turtles, tunicates, scorpionfish, seastars, bubble coral shrimp and blackbelt hogfish.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Sea turtleSea turtleReported here · unconfirmed
Pygmy seahorsePygmy seahorseReported here · unconfirmed
Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisReported here · unconfirmed
Blackspotted PufferArothron nigropunctatusReported here · unconfirmed
Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiReported here · unconfirmed
Tomato ClownfishAmphiprion frenatusReported here · unconfirmed
Blue LinckiaLinckia laevigataReported here · unconfirmed
Ornate GhostpipefishSolenostomus paradoxusReported here · unconfirmed
White-spotted PufferArothron hispidusReported here · unconfirmed
Papuan TobyCanthigaster papuaReported here · unconfirmed
LionfishLionfishReported here · unconfirmed
PufferfishPufferfishReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Mantis shrimpMantis shrimpReported here · unconfirmed
ScorpionfishScorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
PipefishPipefishReported here · unconfirmed
SeahorseSeahorseReported here · unconfirmed
Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasObserved near here · iNaturalist
Spotfin LionfishPteropterus antennatusObserved near here · iNaturalist
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