The Porcupine Puffer ← Preceded by - "The Damselfish" - Followed by → The Scared Sperm Whale |
"The Damselfish" | |
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Season 2, Episode 9 (59) | |
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General | |
Airdate: | April 23, 2013 |
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The Octonauts help a group of algae-eating fish stand up to some aggressive damselfish, who are harming their own reef by over-farming it with algae they refuse to let other fish eat.
Synopsis[]
The Sick Coral Reef[]
Kwazii is about the get some spicy algae burger Tunip and the Vegimals made, but they reveal that they are out of algae. Captain Barnacles, Shellington, Peso, and Kwazii go out to get more. They manage to find a good amount of it... on top of a very sick coral reef. Peso and Shellington observe on one side while Barnacles and Kwazii observe the other.
The Damselfish[]
Kwazii and Barnacles run into Pete the Parrotfish, who is trying to get past the damselfish to get algae. It turns out he, along with his two fish friends, Sammy and Robert, all have the same problem: the damselfish are not letting any other fish eat the algae. When the Octonauts regroup, Shellington explains that the damselfish create "algae farms," but the coral reef gets sick if the algae grows too much and doesn't get eaten quickly. Barnacles tries to talk some sense into them, but they don't comply. So, he gets the Octonauts, along with Sammy, Pete, and Robert, to get to the HQ.
The Plan[]
Barnacles comes up with the following idea: they will steal some of the damselfish boss' algae and get him and the other damselfish to come over to the sick coral reef. They will then convince them to let the other algae-eaters gobble up the extra algae. They decide to go after the boss's patch in order to maximize the chances of the damselfish leaving the algae. Once they locate it, the plan goes into action.
Algae For Everyone![]
Barnacles has Pete, Sammy, and Robert distract the other damselfish surrounding the boss so they can get to his patch easier. Once enough damselfish have left, Kwazii jumps out from his Gup to steal some algae from the boss's patch. They then give chase, with Peso controlling the Gup-B. The damselfish stop chasing them when they sea the sick coral reef, and they realize that if the reef dies, there will be no more algae. They then let everyone else eat the extra algae, with the Octonauts cooking up their own algae burgers in the end and sharing some of them with the damselfish.
Creature Report[]
Trivia[]
- In real life, damselfish defend their algae because they need it to survive and sometimes large schools of other algae-eating fish can overwhelm damselfish and devour all the algae the damselfish have grown.
- This is the second time a coral reef gets sick.
- Moral: It can be important to share.