Striped Catfish Encounters in Lembeh 

These are juvenile Plotosus lineatus catfish. The color pattern is a warning that they have toxic slime on their pectoral and dorsal spines. Plotosid catfishes have demersal eggs, and reportedly have planktonic early larval stages. Many marine, estuarine, and freshwater catfishes practice paternal or biparental care of their eggs and fry, and lack a planktonic larval stage. I've seen no information regarding egg tending among P. lineatus. The schooling behavior and group foraging of schooling juveniles such as these resembles that of many other catfishes, such as North America's bullheads (Ameiurus), which lack the warning color pattern of juvenile P. lineatus. Schools of baby bullheads resemble giant black amoebas as they "flow" by extending pseudopod like extensions of densely packed foraging school members. Larger schools of baby bullheads are routinely comprised of the offspring of multiple pairs of parents, and this is probably true for Plotosus lineatus. Because of their striking coloration and schooling habits, juvenile P. lineatus are often sold in the marine aquarium trade as "Coral Cats". Aside from their quite virulent defensive venom, they lose both their schooling behavior and their warning coloration as they mature.

Apparently these cat fish are venomous so fish like lion fish leave them alone. Otherwise I would of said that lion fish wanted to eat them and not what they were digging up.

It was puzzling; I've never seen them do it since. I thought it was because I had been following them for such a long time and they were trying to escape, but they came back down right in front of me and resumed feeding. Always something new to wonder about...I just love it!

Woah, this is awesome! So memorizing

I love these behavioural videos. Maybe when they all rise up they are doing some sort of mass mutual cleaning? It almost looks like they're all in a frenzy, feeding on something.

I recently saw bluefin trevaly hunting along. Could you explain a bit more about this behaviour please? :)

I love cat fish..interesting Vedio. Watching from western Australia

my friend caught one of dis fish and suddenly he got stung,he thought its not venomous,he's hands are swelling and he is screaming in pain

Nice video

Thanks for sharing!!! Will done!!!

They eat all the meat in my crab pot! Annoying little fish lol

Catfish commander "Make it so."

Very beautiful

What did she say after jacks?

Nice ito

so cute

Don't try to catch them very painful when it bites.

Fine

lol *AWWWWWWwwwwwwww SO ADORABLE!*

GOOD

Stone fish like

Barie nice

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Not beautiful it's more scarier 🙄 especially when u first seeing that. Imagine you encounter that while swimming on the ocean. And you have no idea what is that thing. Creepy.

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Poison

Wow..,🥰❣️🐟❤️

🤔

Wow 😲😲😲😲😲

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They must be very delicious 🤤

Yuck 🤮

Nice video