blackvans1234
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Ill kill them because the LDS will reimburse me the 30 dollars for my lion tamer if I have evidence that I killed 15 of them
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So what's taken over here that wasn't here before? The crown-of-thorns was supposed to eat all the reefs in every ocean but didn't quite pan out. What else is screwing things up? Even zebra mussels in the Great Lakes do have the plus of having cleaned up those filthy murky green waters up there. The snakeheads are about to invade Lake Okeechobee - not much that can be done there. They're fun to catch though. Nasty bastards to deal with.What makes you think they are different from other invasive species that do not balance out?
So you agree that all these people with the little maestro-baton spearguns are indeed unnatural predators?Outside of anecdotal evidence from some, they do not seem to have a natural predator in the Atlantic.
This one I still can't fathom. I only saw them in sub-tropical Indo-Pacific waters where it was also warm enough for sea snakes. These are waters like Fiji and the Coral Sea - warm stuff. I think I only ever saw one sea snake in the cooler Hawaiian waters, and that was off Kona which is still 1,200 miles from the equator. I'll bet that one was a tank release too.Regarding non-tropical water temp--> they seem to thrive just fine off the North Carolina waters, and they have been observed as far up as Rhode Island, presumably riding the Gulf Stream.
So what's taken over here that wasn't here before? The crown-of-thorns was supposed to eat all the reefs in every ocean but didn't quite pan out. What else is screwing things up? Even zebra mussels in the Great Lakes do have the plus of having cleaned up those filthy murky green waters up there. The snakeheads are about to invade Lake Okeechobee - not much that can be done there. They're fun to catch though. Nasty bastards to deal with.
So you agree that all these people with the little maestro-baton spearguns are indeed unnatural predators?
This one I still can't fathom. I only saw them in sub-tropical Indo-Pacific waters where it was also warm enough for sea snakes. These are waters like Fiji and the Coral Sea - warm stuff. I think I only ever saw one sea snake in the cooler Hawaiian waters, and that was off Kona which is still 1,200 miles from the equator. I'll bet that one was a tank release too.
I wanted to have a nice seasnake skin jacket and boots - the guys in Hong Kong could work wonders with whatever stuff you dragged across their thresholds. I needed about 300 of the critters just for the jacket and I couldn't see any way of getting that many of them, even if I ran into one of those rare breeding events where they swarmed intertidal surf zones. Those were times when the surf would be full of writhing seasnakes. Grabbing, skinning, dealing with them just wasn't in the cards. I liked seasnakes too - always make a great dive seeing them wiggling around and going topside to breathe.
These lionfish in cooler Atlantic waters do seem strange. Maybe the Maine lobster, Homarus americanus, will now come south and cluster in the Boca Raton area. By then, all these other Boca Raton divers who are busy groping nurse sharks will have been processed out of the food chain thus eliminating competition for me. I bet the Maine lobsters are gonna love eating lionfish.
come on, really? quick google search...Nonindigenous Aquatic Species[Group],Genus,Species,SubSpecies&submit2=Submit
The Zebra mussels in the great lakes are a horrible pest, they feed on the phytoplankton which is the base of the food web. That clearing up of the water that you mention, just tells you that the Zebra mussels have depleted the phytoplankton. They shift the nutrient balance to the bottom of the lake by filtering algae and organic matter and sending it to the bottom on their feces. This shifts the ecologic make up of the lake, bottom feeders flourish, open water feeders disappear; large leafy underwater plants flourish in clear water and enriched bottoms.