The lionfish of the Dendrochirus genus are the dwarf lionfish. They are the dwarf fuzzy lionfish, the two spot lionfish, the zebra lionfish and the Hawaiian lionfish. If they were put into the Caribbean it would likely be bad news because divers would had a hard time seeing them and so they...
I was not really talking so much about evolution and what not just that the fish in the Indopacific must be totally paranoid compared to the ones in the Caribbean. I mean there are leaf fish that are poisonous just like the lionfish and eat small fish, there are frogfish that are virtually...
In Indonesia there are many different kinds of lionfish swimming about and eating baby fish. They have the standard P. volitans lionfish but they also have many others like the dwarf lionfish from the Dendrochyrus genus; the two spot lionfish, the dwarf fuzzy lionfish and the zebra lionfish...
All I can say is that there is nothing in the Caribbean like the white-tip reef shark. These sharks hunt in packs at night swimming through every nook and cranny to find sleeping fish. These are the areas where lionfish hide so they must eat at least some of them. Other sharks and groupers never...
I was watching a video about white-tip reef sharks and they are a perfect reef predator at night. They can detect the slightest muscle movement of fish hiding on the reef so I was wondering if they also eat lionfish. It seems that lionfish would be easy prey for white-tip reef sharks because...
It seems that the aquarium stores sell far more species of soft coral from the Indopacific than from the Caribbean. There seems to be a lot more species of soft coral from the Indopacific as well. Not only that but they seem to be more colorful as well. Dendronepthya is pink to purple while some...
I am interested in both SCUBA diving and salt water aquariums. I am curious about where green star polyps live in real life and what kinds of conditions they have in their natural environment. Do they grow in lagoons or in deeper reefs? What is their native range? Thanks.
I think that the problems of the lionfish in the Caribbean stem from the fact that lionfish are victimized in the the Indopacific and then when they were placed in the Caribbean they repeated the same pattern on victimization upon the the fish there.
So 80% of the coral reefs in the Caribbean are dead and divers are worried about batfish and lionfish. I wonder if another invasive species that likes to scuba dive, drive cars, and dumps sewage into the ocean and rivers might be to blame the environmental destruction. Nah, it must be the...
On one hand the lionfish should not be in the Caribbean and it will alter the ecosystem. On the other hand itt is pretty amazing that the lionfish is doing so well. Human activity has killed off most of the corals and over fished most of the groupers and snappers, dumped sewage and pollution...
That was what I thought. I don't think lionfish will really get a predator to reduce their numbers as much as I think that fish will adapt to avoid lionfish and recognize them as predators. I think the lionfish numbers will always be high though because the native predators have been overfished...
If that is true then wouldn't hunting lionfish be counterproductive? If lionfish are left alone and then they become numerous then wouldn't the moray eels have a large supply of food? The the eels would become numerous and the lionfish population reduced. This would allow for a natural balance...
I don't think there is a specific predator for lionfish, I think that the fish in the Indo-pacific have evolved to recognize them as predators. Food scarcity is most likely what keeps lionfish populations in check in the Indo-pacific. The fish in the Caribbean will quickly evolve to recognize...
Thank heavens that there are people who are helping to solve the lionfish plague. Lionfish are now established in Caribbean and Atlantic oceans. There is nothing we can do now except to fight to save this planet from total extinction. We may not survive the lionfish invasion but at least we...
True, I have seen lionfish in the Caribbean and they are pretty but there are other far more beautiful fishes in the Indo-pacific area. The Caribbean fishes are nice but they are sort of plain looking compared to the extravigant Indo-pacific fishes The corals in the Indo-pacific are truly...
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