Frogfish on the go...

[justleesa]

the little light just went on and I realized that I can finally post my mpegs. I didn't bother filming because I had no way to share...youtube to the rescue!

I used manual white balance for this clip of a handsome frogfish on Kewalo pipe. Found him because he was on the move...

 

[sea nmf]

That is great! I've never seen a frog fish swim! They almost look normal.

 

[DiveMaven]

Wow, and I had always heard that they weren't good swimmers!!! What a cool video, thanks for posting.

 

[ThatsSomeBadHatHarry]

Very cool. More graceful than i thought they'd be. The manual whie balance looks really nice.

 

[justleesa]

Thanks :blush:

From what I have been told, Frogfish are negatively buoyant. They move by sucking in water and shooting it out like jets and move their body to direct where they wanna go.

 

[Teamcasa]

Very nice video. Thanks for posting it.

Dave

 

[justleesa]

Very welcome

 

[Lopaka]

Utterly cool, never seen one as much as twitch before. For some reason, I thought they sort of crawled/walked along on those fins they hang on with.

 

[Mauifish]

Utterly cool, never seen one as much as twitch before. For some reason, I thought they sort of crawled/walked along on those fins they hang on with.

I saw a nice sized one swimming like that close to Makena Landing in Maui, normaly see them thudding along the bottom, great video!

 

[justleesa]

yeah, they usually just jump along....cool to see them move a bit more...