Pygmy Seahorse

Pygmy seahorses greeting one another off Komodo Island.

These creatures are only about 5-10mm in length, so finding and shooting them is quite difficult and requires specialized video equipment. Pygmy seahorses socialize with one another at certain times of the day and I happened to be there at the right time. I was alone shooting this video but had been to the same site twice earlier that day. Still, it took 25 minutes to find the site and another 20 minutes to find the animals. They are very hard to spot! It's very rare to see them free swimming and quite rare to catch four in the frame at one time. The width of the frame is about 50mm.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• underwater
• Bali
• Komodo
• Pygmy
• Seahorse

[xxmusicxequalsxxlife]

Do you have live rock.sand in your tank?

[craigsj]

This was not shot in an aquarium.

[craigsj]

"A Drop of Silence" from Dream by Kitaro

[chazcov08]

Their highly specialized camouflage is a wonderful example of evolution at its finest!

[Nolapola]

That is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing that beautiful footage!

[TheMollyjasper]

nice!

[palatena]

What a wonderful creature.

[TheHealerShannon]

Are there any videos of them fighting? I think it was on a show like Life or Earth or something like that.

[sevenboarder]

I'm glad I'm not a seahorse.

[crazyaboutmike]

Wow that was beautiful !! they were saying hello to each other!! love the song in the background very nice!! you must have been stoked to find them and record them thanks heaps ...seeing nature like that makes me feel better about life!!

[tis2nwod]

Rofl, yeah!

[DeadEyeMorgan]

Itmust be weird to look like the stuff you live around... imagine looking like a carpark...

[saiyaness22]

This is magical. What beautiful, tiny, alien creatures they are.