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A school of shrimpfishes, Centriscus scutatus. The shrimpfishes always swim with their noses pointed downward, in the process of evolution their dorsal, tail and anal fins have migrated to a position on the side fo the body, where they can produce lateral motion while the animal is oriented vertically,

A very beautiful eel, related to the morays but more delicately built, is the blue ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita). The adult coloration of this animal is electric blue and yellow, and adult females turn bright yellow. Juveniles are black.

Several species of the unusual garden eels (a subfamily of the conger eels) can be found on sandy bottoms in Indonesia. They live in burrows in often large groups, and the sight of all their thin bodies waving in the current gives them their common name. They have small mouths, and pluck plankton from the current. If you swim over the "garden" the eels will slip back down into their burrows, disappearing in a wave before you.

Although garden eels are usually found in deeper water, particularly the sandy channels between reefs, they can sometimes be seen in very shallow Sand patches on the reef. There is a colony of garden eels in shallow water on the approach to the popular wreck at Tulamben, Bali.