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View attachment 170537 I did this in lightroom using the coral as a neutral selection.
Did you shoot this RAW by chance? Shooting RAW if you camera is capable gives you much more ability to make these adjustments.
If the color of the fish is too close to the color cast of the water though it will be hard to make the necessary adjustment in the computer. It would be better to shoot with a strobe so you can get back some of the natural colors in the light.
Not sure if this is better than Wabbit's - it pops a little more but the filter I use makes everything slightly bleaker looking:
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Steps using Photoshop:
Applied the Bring Back the Reds filter. If you don't have it, PM an e-mail address and I'll send it to you. You add it to your Photoshop Plug-ins folder.
In Hue/Saturation in the Adjustments menu decrease the Saturation to -20 and increase the Lightness to +10 or +15 - don't remember which I chose.
Last click Equalize in the Adjustments menu. Seemed to make the fish slightly stand out more. I don't actually know what Equalize does.
Edit: Now that I compare it, I probably shouldn't have decreased the Saturation.
Check out my instructional for Photoshop underwater photo editing:
5 Minute Photoshop Edit | Underwater Photography | Techniques
I'd recommend making use of channel mixer, as the primary recourse.