An excerpt from the 2008 Arts Central series, “Once Upon a Tree: Tides and Coastlines” featuring the underwater marine life and reefs of Pulau Hantu!

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Thanks for the link to the video.  I think this is the common spotted-tailed one, in its greenish-grey form. Sargassum frogfish are orangey-brown with pale patches and have longer limbs (fins). – Kelvin Lim, Curator of FIshes, Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research Thank’s to James Costello for sharing this video with the blog via YouTube.

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In case you missed our talk on Hantu’s marine life at last month’s IYOR launch at the Botanical Gardens, you can now watch the full presentation online! Three cheers for technology! If you like what you see and would like the Hantu Blog to visit your school or office drop us an email!

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In case you haven’t already heard, the Hantu Blog’s 4th Anniversary celebrations on the island and it’s reef was uber fantastic! Everyone was nervous about the outcome, what more with the relentless rain we’ve been having for the past week! Dark clouds made the morning appear ominous but as we entered the early afternoon, things […]

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On Tuesday, the PFT crew and me went back to Hantu island to wrap up the shoot for the final episode of Once Upon a Tree II: Tides and Coastlines. The episode featuring the Hantu Blog carries the theme, “Hope”, and is intended to set the ending note for the state of our coastal and […]

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The Hantu Blog went out with the crew of Once Upon a Tree, a series about Singapore’s marine and coastal habitats, to be broadcast on Arts Central later this month. The episode that features the Blog will be aired later this month. This was the 1st of 2 segments within the episode. The second will […]

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The creatures of Hantu’s reef of course! From illusive blade-like razorfish, to the comedic clownfish that bounce in and out of their anemones, and the seemingly sombre and dull coloured frillfin gobies that spend their afternoons sitting on the seabed… we’ve got all kinds of creatures to entertain your eclectic tastes for the ocean! Razorfish […]

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Believe it or not, the feathery appendages that stick out of Barnacles and filter particles from the passing water aren’t the arms or its mouth but its feet! Barnacles evolved from shrimp or prawns, and eventually turned to use their feet for feeding instead of swimming! Here a tiny barnacle, only as big as the […]

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