Dr. Cliff Redford
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This gorgeous parrotfish.
So they live in the Caribbean waters.
They're huge.
They're like the size of a watermelon.
And they are divers' fantasy fish because they're so beautiful, so colorful.
They're called the Scarus vetula is their genus and species.
Apparently, they have a bit of a slimy nightlife.
They're very much like the Nemo fish, but the Nemo fish is very, very tiny.
No, these guys are huge.
And so not in Nemo at all.
I mean, I'm sure they passed off, you know, before, spoiler alert, the barracuda ate all the eggs except for the one.
There you go.
It's all in the title, David.
It's all in the title.
Sometimes it's got to be very, very clear.
Are you telling me the Hail Mary movie is not about football?
So at night, apparently, not apparently, at night, it goes down and I guess it sleeps, it naps, it rests down in these crevices.
And it has these glands just behind its gills.
and it produces mucus, as do most glands.
And this mucus, it takes about 30 minutes, and the parrotfish will build a giant mucus slime ball bubble that it sleeps in.