Mucky Secrets | The Marine Creatures of the Lembeh Strait

The Lembeh Strait is a popular scuba diving destination, famed for its excellent "muck diving". A huge diversity of exotic marine creatures can be found on the mucky seabed, including everything from tropical fish to benthic sharks to nudibranchs.

Critters compete for survival with an armoury including camouflage, mimicry, toxicity, and dazzling coloration. "Mucky Secrets" is an excellent resource for scuba divers, aquarists, and marine biology students.

The documentary features underwater macro footage from many of Lembeh's famous dive sites including Critter Hunt, Police Pier, Tanjung Kusu-Kusu, Nudi Falls, Aer Perang, Jahir, Makawide, Nudi Retreat, Retak Larry, TK (Teluk Kembahu), Hairball and Aw Shucks.

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:05:11 - Corals

00:05:57 - Tunicates - sea squirts - ascidians

00:06:37 - Symbiosis - sea anemones - anemonefish (clownfish)

00:00:28 - CRUSTACEANS

00:07:29 - Commensal shrimps (partner shrimps)

00:09:12 - Emperor shrimp

00:11:07 - Mantis shrimps

00:12:34 - Squat lobsters

00:13:27 - Hermit crabs

00:14:26 - True crabs

00:15:55 - Sea Urchins

00:17:10 - ELASMOBRANCHS

00:17:11 - Blue spotted stingrays

00:18:15 - Brownbanded bamboo shark

0018:58 - EELS

00:18:59 - Snake eels

00:20:27 - Moray eels

00:21:34 - Ribbon eels

00:22:32 - REEF FISHES

00:22:33 - Cardinalfishes

00:24:43 - Trumpetfish

00:25:58 - Seahorses

00:27:06 - Pygmy seahorse

00:28:30 - Pipefishes

00:30:38 - Ghost pipefishes

00:33:22 - Shrimpfishes - razorfishes

00:33:58 - Seamoths - short dragonfish

00:35:03 - Oriental flying gurnard

00:35:58 - Blennies

00:36:49 - Gobies

00:37:46 - Sea pen

00:38:17 - Dragonets

00:40:49 - Mandarinfish

00:42:08 - Frogfishes

00:46:39 - Juvenile fishes

00:47:12 - Spotted parrotfish

00:48:20 - Sweetlips

00:49:05 - Yellowblotch razorfish

00:49:37 - Filefishes

00:50:24 - Boxfishes - cowfishes

00:50:57 - Puffers (pufferfish)

00:52:21 - Sharpnose puffers (tobies)

00:52:50 - Porcupinefishes

00:53:45 - Panther grouper

00:54:10 - Whitemargin stargazer

00:54:54 - Leopard flounder

00:55:25 - Flatheads

00:56:36 - Scorpionfishes

00:57:27 - Ambon Scorpionfish

00:58:04 - Rhinopias

00:59:50 - Lionfishes

01:02:29 - Demon stinger (spiny devilfish, bearded ghoul)

01:03:17 - Fireworm

01:03:45 - Waspfishes

01:05:46 - MOLLUSCS

01:05:47 - CEPHALOPODS

01:05:48 - Cuttlefishes

01:08:38 - Octopuses

01:11:34 - Flame scallop

01:12:02 - GASTROPODS

01:12:03 - Sea snails

01:14:37 - Sea slugs - nudibranchs

01:21:49 - Sea slugs feeding

01:23:57 - Nudibranchs mating

01:26:11 - Sap-sucking slug

01:26:59 - Headshield slugs

01:27:49 - Sea hares

01:30:21 - Polyclad flatworm

01:31:18 - End credits