Uploaded July 2013 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago
Watch this amazing video of a school of Grey and French angelfishes as they attack sponges (Callyspongia vaginalis, then C. armigera) on the Pinnacle at Conch Reef, off Key Largo, Florida, and home of Aquarius undersea research laboratory. The sequence ends with a "bait-ball" of small fishes swimming over the reef. You can learn more about how angelfishes control sponge populations at this recent publication in PLOS ONE: plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062573
Watch this amazing video of a school of Grey and French angelfishes as they attack sponges (Callyspongia vaginalis, then C. armigera) on the Pinnacle at Conch Reef, off Key Largo, Florida, and home of Aquarius undersea research laboratory. The sequence ends with a "bait-ball" of small fishes swimming over the reef. You can learn more about how angelfishes control sponge populations at this recent publication in PLOS ONE: plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0062573
