Bandit angels and Crosshatch in their natural environment

[Recty]

I thought this was a great little video, I love seeing fish in the wild. I've never dove as far down as these guys are while I was in Hawaii, I'm surprised how flat it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hAYx1XI3s&sns=em

[melanotaenia]

awesome video thanks for sharing!!! Is it just me or do a few of those Bandit Angels look pretty big and beefy!

[Recty]

Yeah, I thought the same thing too, they are very fat.

[kirkaz]

Very good video...I watched at work with no audio, did they say how deep they were? Those Bandits are chunks.

[itachi]

the video was taken i believe @192ft .

[Rare Angels]

You can see why collectors say Bandits are easy to catch, hell they swam almost right up to the camera.

Very cool video, thanks for finding it and sharing.

Dave

[cas]

Very good video...I watched at work with no audio, did they say how deep they were? Those Bandits are chunks.

They just had a jazz sound track.

I am suprised they did not show more of the potters.

[myerst2]

You could see courting behavior intially with the bandits. What was that one trigger file looking fish half way through? Those big white tail damsels are pretty rare as well and we all know those anthias are amazing beauties but so hard to acclimate. Here is a great shot of Rob catching a baby bandit. Rob has supplied many of us with some great Hawaiian fish. T
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtrQqLwkuE&feature=player_embedded

[tcmfish]

Great Vid!!! That crosshatch was huge, I don't know how people keep those in tanks. But yeah I wanted an up close of the potters and the anthias was sick!

Thanks Recty enjoyed the vid.

[itachi]

Yeah i love the anthias, i do have several of them and they are no joke when it comes to pita.

[SDguy]

I remember chasing around an adult bandit while snorkling off Kauai, and remember thinking, what a fatty!

[ccampbell57]

When Rob and I caught my bandit at 180ft it was dark and everything was blue.

He set a fence up to catch a school of flame wrasse and they all looked very dull in color because we were so deep.

I cant wait to get back out in the water with him again.

[Recty]

You could see courting behavior intially with the bandits. What was that one trigger file looking fish half way through?
Looks like a somewhat young fantail filefish to me, but it's hard to tell.

[jc16]

wow some awesome videos, i love love to go collect my own fish out there. that way i can find exactly what i want and don't have to wait .

[zemuron114]

you could probably catch a bandit with a plastic bag if it was all you had!

JC - it isn't that easy :) some times you can drop into 180 feet and come away with nothing. Takes time to learn and find spots that produce certain fish consistently. 180-200 is very deep!

[Mentat]

Very cool video, thanks for sharing!

[Mark]

What are the clownfish looking fish at 1:03 into the video, on the right of the screen?

[goldenclove77]

sweet

[Luiz Rocha]

Very nice video. One thing to note is that some of these guys occur in much shallower water in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands. I saw bandits about 50ft depth at Pearl and Hermes Atoll.

[Sheol]

Man, they were fat & sassy!
That was a Filefish, probably a Fantail, but I cannot say with 100% certainty. Afterall, you cannot use color as a useful ID guide at depth.

Matthew
PS.
Nothing is easy at 180-200 feet. I'd be narced out of my freaking mind. And so would most other people ( Ok, I start feeling that at 100-110 ft but still..)

[Hawaiirob]

Looks like a somewhat young fantail filefish to me, but it's hard to tell.

hahaha... Even juvenile fantail filefishes are prettier than the trigger in the video! No--it is not a filefish. It is just a common fish know as a bridled triggerfish. This is a juvenile and they get up to 15" when full grown. One thing that we DIDNT manage to capture in the video footage was the school of about 60 scalloped hammerhead sharks hovering about 30ft. off the reef.... It's really amazing what you see down there sometimes.