Bruce, you are going to know this fish. He's one of our fun
pals that we really enjoy encountering every once in
awhile at these depths. As far as we know there is only one
species across the pacific that looks like this, this is
a sea toad or coffin fish. It's in the same order as the
angler fishes and frog fishes. Oh, he's lifted his foot, he's
starting to get a little concerned. He's says if you
guys don't leave, I'm walking. What's going on here? I'm
doing it really slow so they can't see me. Whoa, someone
lost some weight. I wish I could do it that easily, geez.
I need to know his secret. I think he's going to actually
swim away. I think he is too. Here he goes. He says, they
are on to me, it's time to move. That was it? That was
the big move? That was a big buildup. These are not very
active fish, they are like the shallow water frog fish that
divers like to photograph, they don't move around much,
they depend more on sitting and ambushing their prey.
There he goes, so they do swim. Yep, is that a parasite?
Oh you are right it is a parasite. Feet out for
landing. It does!