I found a few interesting research papers on the swimming abilities of reef fish larvae and how they find reefs to settle on:
An analysis of the sustained swimming abilities of pre-and post-settlement coral reef fishes
IC Stobutzki, DR Bellwood - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology …, 1994
Nocturnal orientation to reefs by late pelagic stage coral reef fishes
IC Stobutzki, DR Bellwood - Coral Reefs, 1998
Development of swimming abilities in reef fish larvae
R Fisher, DR Bellwood, SD Job - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2000
Sustained swimming abilities of the late pelagic stages of coral reef fishes
IC Stobutzki, DR Bellwood - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1997
Effects of feeding on the sustained swimming abilities of late-stage larval Amphiprion melanopus
R Fisher, D Bellwood - Coral Reefs, 2001
Relative swimming speeds in reef fish larvae
DR Bellwood, R Fisher - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2001
Ontogeny of critical swimming speed of wild-caught and laboratory-reared red drum Sciaenops ocellatus larvae
AM Faria, AF Ojanguren, LA Fuiman… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2009
The influence of swimming speed on sustained swimming performance of late-stage reef fish larvae
R Fisher, D Bellwood - Marine Biology, 2002
Interspecific variation in sustained swimming ability of late pelagic stage reef fish from two families (Pomacentridae and Chaetodontidae)
IC Stobutzki - Coral Reefs, 1998
Observed and simulated swimming trajectories of late-stage coral reef fish larvae off the Florida Keys
KB Huebert, S Sponaugle - Aquatic Biology, 2009
Monitoring larval fluxes through the surf zones of Australian coral reefs
P Doherty, J McIlwain - Marine and Freshwater Research, 1996
Energetic cost of sustained swimming in the late pelagic stages of reef fishes
IC Stobutzki - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1997
Active habitat selection by pre‐settlement reef fishes
JC Montgomery, N Tolimieri, OS Haine - Fish and Fisheries, 2001
Maximum sustainable swimming speeds of late-stage larvae of nine species of reef fishes
R Fisher, SK Wilson - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2004
Attraction of settlement-stage coral reef fishes to reef noise
SD Simpson, MG Meekan, RD McCauley… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2004
Larval reef fish could use odour for detection, retention and orientation to reefs
J Atema, MJ Kingsford, G Gerlach - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2002
Complex behaviour by coral-reef fish larvae in open-water and near-reef pelagic environments
JM Leis, BM Carson-Ewart - Environmental Biology of Fishes, 1998
Morphological predictors of swimming speed: a case study of pre-settlement juvenile coral reef fishes
R Fisher, JD Hogan - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007
Localised coastal habitats have distinct underwater sound signatures
CA Radford, JA Stanley, CT Tindle… - Marine Ecology …, 2010
In situ swimming speeds of the late pelagic larvae of some Indo-Pacific coral-reef fishes
JM Leis, BM Carson-Ewart - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 1997
Temporal patterns in ambient noise of biological origin from a shallow water temperate reef
CA Radford, AG Jeffs, CT Tindle, JC Montgomery - Oecologia, 2008
Light sensitivity in larval fishes: implications for vertical zonation in the pelagic zone
SD Job, DR Bellwood - Limnology and Oceanography, 2000
What the pelagic stages of coral reef fishes are doing out in blue water: daytime field observations of larval behavioural capabilities
JM Leis, HPA Sweatman, SE Reader - Marine and Freshwater Research, 1996
From record performance to hypoxia tolerance: respiratory transition in damselfish larvae settling on a coral reef
GE Nilsson, S Östlund-Nilsson… - Proceedings of the …, 2007
Feeding greatly enhances swimming endurance of settlement-stage reef-fish larvae of damselfishes (Pomacentridae)
JM Leis, DL Clark - Ichthyological Research, 2005
