Toadfish does a deathroll on a lionfish (never seen anything like it)

[bburkes]

this video was taken by my dive shop owner in Sea Grove, FL. This toadfih does this crazy death roll to the gut of a lionfish sending peices of lionfish flying.

short :43 second video

Toadfish death rolls a Loinfish - YouTube

 

[Dsix36]

Now we just need about 200 million toadfish to wipe out the lionfish population.

 

[mikeycanuk]

And divers to spear them....


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[Bratface]

I took a video of a spotted moray eel who did the same thing. He couldn't get it back into his house so he rolled it over and over again and finally pulled it inside.

 

[chillyinCanada]

We need the native fish to be taking the lionfish on their own. Sigh

 

[Dsix36]

We need the native fish to be taking the lionfish on their own. Sigh

I like to keep a positive outlook on this. I am hoping that by helping a few native fish to a meal, they might learn that lionfish are an actual food source and start doing it by themselves. It might be that they are new to the native fish and there is some confusion as who is the actual predator.

Think about this the next time you are having eggs for breakfast:
Somewhere in time, somebody watched an egg fall out of a chicken's butt and said to themselves "I wonder what that tastes like".