Jaw dropping time-lapse video of a shoal of invasive banggaii cardinalfish

By on Mar 22, 2010

About a month ago we posted this image by Tony Wu of a shoal of banggaii cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni, in Lembeh, Sulawesi where they do not natively occur. That post received some skepticism as to how many fish that single image could represent. Well it turns out that Mr. Wu had the inclination to snap probably about 1000 more images like this and stitched it together into a jaw-dropping time lapse video of just a living mass of banggai cardinalfish. According to Tony:

Here’s a time-lapse sequence of one community of these fish, which should help convey how many there are, as well as how active they are in Lembeh

You really ought to see this video on the TonyWu website. The video is a very high bitrate so it takes a while to load but it is well worth the wait.

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  • http://blog.marinedepot.com jeffry j. johnston

    WHOA

  • http://blog.marinedepot.com jeffry j. johnston

    WHOA

  • Mike

    Well that area isn’t terribly far (globally speaking) from the “only” place Banggai are known to exist.

  • Mike

    Well that area isn’t terribly far (globally speaking) from the “only” place Banggai are known to exist.

  • Mike

    Also somewhere else needs to host that video, his site is going to get slower and slower every time this story goes on another blog and whatever wonder that is there won’t be shared (I still haven’t been able to view it after 5 minutes)

  • Mike

    Also somewhere else needs to host that video, his site is going to get slower and slower every time this story goes on another blog and whatever wonder that is there won’t be shared (I still haven’t been able to view it after 5 minutes)

  • Andy

    That is a far distance considering the larval development of the fish.

    Not a good thing to contributed to another invasive species. It would be nice to see collection activities shifted over solely to these non-native populations. Poor handling of the fish still results in huge moralities, but at least its not the endemic populations.

  • Andy

    That is a far distance considering the larval development of the fish.

    Not a good thing to contributed to another invasive species. It would be nice to see collection activities shifted over solely to these non-native populations. Poor handling of the fish still results in huge moralities, but at least its not the endemic populations.

  • Rich Ross

    People really didn’t believe there were than many fish? When I was there in 08 there were nearly that many banggais right off the dock of KBR.

  • Rich Ross

    People really didn’t believe there were than many fish? When I was there in 08 there were nearly that many banggais right off the dock of KBR.

  • Azurel

    That’s alot of Cards….

  • Azurel

    That’s alot of Cards….

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