Invertebrates and Reptiles Video Library

CoralRealm Rare Critter Video Clips

Looking for rare and exotic marine life?

Here you'll find a collection of video clips showing both strange and exotic critters displaying interesting behaviors.

Watch a flamboyant cuttlefish snatch a meal or a frogfish "gallop" across the bottom. How about a weird mantis shrimp cleaning his burrow? It's all here for you in the CoralRealm invertebrate and rare critter video Library.

For more complete information on rare and unusual marine life, visit our Critter Hunt section where you can learn more about the exotic species that are rarely seen by most underwater explorers.

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Video Preview   Spotted Box Crab
Spotted box crabs bury themselves in the sand during the day and come out at night to feed. Watch this guy do his thing.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 160x120 Size:3.6 Meg Length: 29 seconds
Video by Bruce Robison

    Lizardfish Cleaning Video Clip
Watch the sand diver lizardfish being cleaned by Pederson's cleaner shrimps. Note the shrimp on the dorsal fin near the end of the clip.
Resolution: 160x120 Size: 1.82 Meg Length: 30 seconds
Video by T.Majewski/T. Parson
  Diver Gets a Manicure Video Clip
Watch the Pederson shrimp perform a manicure on the diver's fingernail.
Resolution: 160x120 Size: 2.64 Meg Length: 30 seconds
Video by T.Majewski/T. Parson
Video Preview   Spotted Box Crab
Spotted box crabs bury themselves in the sand during the day and come out at night to feed. Watch this guy do his thing.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 160x120 Size:3.6 Meg Length: 29 seconds
Video by Bruce Robison
Video Preview   Anemone Hermit Crab
Hermit crabs come out at night to forage. See the sea anemones on the shell of this Dardanus pendunculatus that help protect the crab from predators.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:2.9 Meg Length: 18 seconds
Video by Bruce Robison
Video Preview   Unusual Sea Slug
The rare Cerberilla ambonensis burying under the sand. This species comes out at night to forage.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:3.5 Meg Length: 28 seconds
Video by Bruce Robison
Video Preview   Flamboyant Cuttlefish Feeding!
Very rare footage of a flamboyant cuttlefish snatching a meal.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 160x120 Size:1.55 Meg Length: 26 seconds

Video Preview   Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Great footage of a flamboyant cuttlefish displaying his multi-colored mantle while "walking" along the substrate! Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:4.7 Meg Length: 37 seconds

Video Preview   Flamboyant Cuttlefish 'Walking'
Watch a strange and exotic flamboyant cuttlefish "walking". Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 145x110 Size:1.12 Meg Length: 22 seconds

Video Preview   Giant Mantis Shrimp Cleaning Burrow
A giant fish-eating mantis shrimp displays his technique for cleaning "house".
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 145x110 Size:1.15 Meg Length: 13 seconds

Video Preview   Mantis Shrimp 'Flips'
A colorful mantis shrimp displays how it quickly enters its burrow.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 145x110 Size:1.48 Meg Length: 16 seconds

Video Preview   Mantis Shrimp Housekeeping
Another clip of the "alien" mantis shrimp.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 145x110 Size:0.66 Meg Length: 13 seconds

  Reef Squids
Rare footage of a pair of bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana) courting and mating. Watch the male gently deposit a sperm packet on the head of the female.
Wakatobi Marine Park - SE Sulawesi, Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:1.72 Meg Length: 20 seconds
Video by T.Majewski/T. Parson
Video Preview   Reef Octopus
Reef Octopus free swimming at night.
Bloody Bay Wall - Little Cayman, Cayman Islands
Resolution: 140x105 Size:1.5 Meg Length: 29 seconds
Video Preview   Octopus Roaming
Check out this octopus moving along the substrate on a nite dive.
Lembeh Strait Sulawesi - Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:2.7 Meg Length: 32 seconds
Video by Bruce Robison
Video Preview   Banded Sea Snake (free sample)
Banded sea snake hunting for food.
Bunaken Marine Park - Sulawesi, Indonesia
Resolution: 176x132 Size:1.2 Meg Length: 15 seconds
Video by T.Majewski/T. Parson
  Hawkbill Turtle
A hawksbill turtle swims along the reef and shows little concern when encountering a diver.
Wakatobi Marine Park - SE Sulawesi, Indonesia
Resolution: 200x150 Size:2.92 Meg Length: 28 seconds
Video by T.Majewski/T. Parson
Bubbleshell - Komodo
6.7 Meg - 48 seconds 200x150
video by Majewski/Parson
Bubblesnail - Lembeh Strait
2.6 Meg - 29 seconds 160x120
video by Bruce Robison
Magnum Cucumber - Komodo
3.5 Meg - 19 seconds 200x150
video by Majewski/Parson
Mimic Octopus 1 - Lembeh Strait
2.1 Meg - 32 seconds 160x120
video by Bill McDonald
Mimic Octopus 2 - Lembeh Strait
3.7 Meg 35 seconds 160x120
video by Bill McDonald
Mimic Octopus 3 - Lembeh Strait
3.7 Meg 37 seconds 160x120
video by Bill McDonald
Upside Down Jellyfish - Solomon Islands
0.9 Meg - 18 seconds 160x120
video by Mary Anne Pedoto
Peacock Mantis Shrimp - Solomon Islands
1.3 Meg - 15 seconds 160x120
video by Mary Anne Pedoto
Komodo Dragon - Komodo Island
3.6 Meg - 42 seconds 160x120
video by Majewski/Parson
 
  Marine Life Videos for Sale
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Need a distraction while you wait? Get out a pencil and piece of paper and start making a list of dive destinations you'd like to visit. Or draw your interpretation of a longlure frogfish devouring a squirrelfish.


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