Considering the amount of idiotic lionfish sympathy comments, I bet more than a few have had lion fish as pets in a tank, and it was people like them who started the problem when they released their pet lion fish after it got to big into the local ocean, because they couldn't do the right thing and kill it.
Johnny Morales it was actually documented that some escaped the aquarium in Florida during hurricane Andrew. Sure some may have been tossed but the aquarium breech was a big part of the problem
Being that the lion fish is an environmentally invasive species, it’s better to kill the lion fish and feed it to other species that would use it to survive. There are no known predators in the Caribbean to the lion fish. Educate yourself
So far I’ve seen video of a moray eel, Grouper and now this a couple were killed by a diver and “feed” to another fish but the Grouper was obviously hunting and positioning himself with no diver interference so maybe the “no natural predators thing is changing as other species figure out how to hunt them like the grouper?
One video of a Barracuda eating one given to it seemed to be having a hard time swallowing it because it tried to swallow it whole rather than like this toad fish ripping it apart.
☑️ There are some restauranteurs who procure and cook lionfish, and sell the dishes to their patrons. That's a great solution, just like when people hunt and eat wild pigs. Hopefully there are also restaurants who cook wild pigs.
people might miss the point of the video, actually the lion fish is an invasive specie in many aquatic environment. For their wide range diet they can can effect any environment severely. So maybe by doing this they can decrease the numbers of lion fish, while benefiting another creature.
But like the several humans who were the first to learn they can't eat something and can't pass on that knowledge unless someone saw them die after eating it. How many animals died learning they couldn't eat frogs that are red?
@@rgruenhaus I see your point, but the lion fish is actually venomous not poisonous, so ingesting it will cause no harm to other creatures, the venom is harmful when its injected, so when they get stung with its spines.
@@mastailler1649 In my area, toadfish are a local species and Lionfish are horrible invasive predators. Toadfish don't disrupt the ecosystem, they are part of it, so they are cool.
+Boost junkie They are destroying the ecosystem. They are eating all the species that keep the coral reefs healthy. Once all of those species are eaten, the coral reefs will die in a few years or less. You know the parrotfish? They are regular prey for Lionfish. They keep coral reefs healthy and produce the sand for our beaches. Coral reefs and parrot fish prevent the erosion of beaches on the Caribbean and Western Atlantic coasts. Lionfish are a plague. Death in nature is never humane. I would hope that you know just how important coral reefs are to the ecosystem. If not, then google it or read a book.
Every video of lionfish has tons of comments about how they are invasive and it's necessary to teach other animals to eat them, but I never see the comments that say it's awful those lionfish are killed like that
Exactly. Because they are invasive. They’re taking over everything and destroying all different kinds of species 🐠 🐟.Even the fish that feed on the algae of coral reefs . Throwing the whole ecosystem off balance. They have no natural predators and breed like crazy. They’re like roaches!
Thanks for that! I have seen lots of dead lion fish fed to other fish by divers, but have any native fish starting preying naturally on the lion fish? Thanks, I would like to get down to Florida and do some eradication myself. Do you have dives for that?
It's time the local fish started fighting back against the lionfish invader. Introduced by mindless aquarium people into the Atlantic and Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. When I spear lionfish I don't eat them, I feed the local fish that actually belong there.
@@dabba_dabba Its their spikes thats venomous. And it didnt cause death to human, more like intense pain like sea urchin. Besides, the chef cook the whole fish, so the venom is probably gone. And yeah, its fugu fish thats poisonous. And since its eaten as sushi (raw) thus the risk of poisoning is high.
it is gonna take every diver working hard to control these rascals - here is my contribution to the effort in Cayman - ruclips.net/video/YLAeeYwfcl4/видео.html - feeding snapper and ruclips.net/video/6_BdtOFi_mg/видео.html - Feeding Moray
One has to wonder whether divers are sufficiently monitoring the health of the various animals they're 'teaching to eat' lionfish...i.e every 3 hours up to 24 hours ????
@@richardkatz8713 but the reason that they’re teaching these animals to eat the lion fish is because they are immune to the lion fish’s venom. Groupers, large eels, some sharks, cornet fish and some trigger fish can eat lion fish as well. No animal in the world has no natural predators (except maybe orcas).
@@richardkatz8713 but this behavior was already observed in the lion fish’s natural habitat and what eats it would’ve most likely been discovered around the time that the lion fish itself was discovered. Do u think the animals are just inedible and have no natural predators cause that’s what ur implying?
I love how I'm suddenly getting tons of videos of lionfish getting devoured.
GIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TODAY. THANK YOU
The toadfish was like; Oh yes, they float Georgie, they float.
Considering the amount of idiotic lionfish sympathy comments, I bet more than a few have had lion fish as pets in a tank, and it was people like them who started the problem when they released their pet lion fish after it got to big into the local ocean, because they couldn't do the right thing and kill it.
Imagine being the prrson who released them and sees all this
Johnny Morales it was actually documented that some escaped the aquarium in Florida during hurricane Andrew. Sure some may have been tossed but the aquarium breech was a big part of the problem
@MisterMorales could you just openly KILL a lionfish? I couldn't.
Being that the lion fish is an environmentally invasive species, it’s better to kill the lion fish and feed it to other species that would use it to survive. There are no known predators in the Caribbean to the lion fish. Educate yourself
So far I’ve seen video of a moray eel, Grouper and now this a couple were killed by a diver and “feed” to another fish but the Grouper was obviously hunting and positioning himself with no diver interference so maybe the “no natural predators thing is changing as other species figure out how to hunt them like the grouper?
Qq
One video of a Barracuda eating one given to it seemed to be having a hard time swallowing it because it tried to swallow it whole rather than like this toad fish ripping it apart.
☑️ There are some restauranteurs who procure and cook lionfish, and sell the dishes to their patrons. That's a great solution, just like when people hunt and eat wild pigs. Hopefully there are also restaurants who cook wild pigs.
@@rgruenhaus
Yeah, apparently there are some divers who attempt to teach the various predatory fish how to safely capture and eat lion fish.
people might miss the point of the video, actually the lion fish is an invasive specie in many aquatic environment.
For their wide range diet they can can effect any environment severely. So maybe by doing this they can decrease the numbers of lion fish, while benefiting another creature.
yes, it trains the ones that got fed with lionfish that they are also good food source
But like the several humans who were the first to learn they can't eat something and can't pass on that knowledge unless someone saw them die after eating it. How many animals died learning they couldn't eat frogs that are red?
@@rgruenhaus I see your point, but the lion fish is actually venomous not poisonous, so ingesting it will cause no harm to other creatures, the venom is harmful when its injected, so when they get stung with its spines.
Toad fish are also the same or probably worse
@@mastailler1649 In my area, toadfish are a local species and Lionfish are horrible invasive predators. Toadfish don't disrupt the ecosystem, they are part of it, so they are cool.
Go Toadfish!
the lion fish seemed dead already before it was eaten
Eventually 100% of predators in the ocean will be eating Lionfish at this rate lol
Haha! That toad fish is like a xenomorph pulling prey through too small a hole. Love it!
It was dead.....we stumbled upon the the Toad Fish ....Nat Geo is using the footage for a lionfish doc they are making.
Why not turn it head first toward toad fish?
+Boost junkie
They are destroying the ecosystem. They are eating all the species that keep the coral reefs healthy. Once all of those species are eaten, the coral reefs will die in a few years or less. You know the parrotfish? They are regular prey for Lionfish. They keep coral reefs healthy and produce the sand for our beaches. Coral reefs and parrot fish prevent the erosion of beaches on the Caribbean and Western Atlantic coasts. Lionfish are a plague. Death in nature is never humane.
I would hope that you know just how important coral reefs are to the ecosystem. If not, then google it or read a book.
I just watched National Geographic video you guys mentioned. It's insane how many there are in one place.
So your telling me I shouldn't put my lionfish in the same tank as my splendid toadfish?
Every video of lionfish has tons of comments about how they are invasive and it's necessary to teach other animals to eat them, but I never see the comments that say it's awful those lionfish are killed like that
Exactly. Because they are invasive. They’re taking over everything and destroying all different kinds of species 🐠 🐟.Even the fish that feed on the algae of coral reefs . Throwing the whole ecosystem off balance. They have no natural predators and breed like crazy. They’re like roaches!
Hi Scuba Schools of America, I'm curious to know if any fish that eat lion fish are harmed by the venomous spines?
trackydog doesn't seem to affect the fish that eat them
Thanks for that! I have seen lots of dead lion fish fed to other fish by divers, but have any native fish starting preying naturally on the lion fish? Thanks, I would like to get down to Florida and do some eradication myself. Do you have dives for that?
good toadfish !
It's time the local fish started fighting back against the lionfish invader. Introduced by mindless aquarium people into the Atlantic and Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. When I spear lionfish I don't eat them, I feed the local fish that actually belong there.
More local fish species need to be taught that lionfish makes a good meal.
imagine this much ignorance exists in the world when google is a thing
yeah, I was about to say uhhhh, said lion fish was, comatose, Kinda surprised the toad fish grabbed it
Lion fish are doing serious damage to our reef fish.
Magicarp has left the chat
I wanna see a dog fish eating a catfish.
Why the fuck
Nice Video next is Toad vs Lion!?Okayy!?😂
the title should toad fish eating dead lion fish
Did the toadfish survive?
Talk about being spoon fed. Toad Fish is still sitting there the next day like, diver, I'll have my mid-day snack now.
Yeah, delivered by scuba eats!!
Do you think is possible to train predators to aquire a taste for lionfish and start hunting them ?
They are already doing it with baracuda sharks and eels
@@patronofsaints2062 Octopus are killing them also
I would rather see something like a grouper eating a live free swimming fish that shoving a dead fish into someone's mouth.
What was that "tool" you were using to handle the lion fish?
A stubby pole spear
Toadfish are poisonous fish too so they are probably immune to Lionfish poison
Does this not kill the fish that eats the lionfish?
Lion fish was half dead!
Easy pick for the Toad!
Omg that's one bad ass fish. Get in my cave
Supper is speared.
Is this a training video?
This video should be titled: "Toad Fish Being Fed A Lion Fish". Bon Appetite.
how long have lionfish been a problem? i've been seeing lionfish feedings all week
they were supposedly introduced in the 1980s but are now incredibly pervasive
Was the lionfish still alive?? Amazing footage btw!
Hazafan88 that thing was dead af
tony tran it probably was. There was a part where it looked like it may have still been breathing.
common for fish to twitch when dead once cut a yellowtail for bait despite having no head the body was vibrating like crazy
I think it would’ve been better if the lion fish went in headfirst, so when eaten, the spines are bent away not into the predator’s face.
the spines point backwards, give it to him head first so he can eat it.
It was dead.
I have both of those fish
.
Gee, who put the Lion fish in front of Toadie???
Why don't the spines poison the predators the eat the lionfish?
Don’t the spines get the preditor
Impressive
isn't lion fish poisonous?
I’m hoping those that eat them don’t die from ingesting the venom. Otherwise, all this hard work will be wasted.
keep feeding that guy
I could of swore Lion Fish were poisonous
They were venomous. Theres a difference.
And that animal its apparently inmune to its venom
@@eleethtahgra7182 I didn't even know they were venomous. I thought if you ate one you would die. Maybe I was confusing it with a fugu fish
@@dabba_dabba
Its their spikes thats venomous. And it didnt cause death to human, more like intense pain like sea urchin. Besides, the chef cook the whole fish, so the venom is probably gone.
And yeah, its fugu fish thats poisonous. And since its eaten as sushi (raw) thus the risk of poisoning is high.
@@eleethtahgra7182 Aha. I see where I was confused now. Learned something new
yep...what a waste of time
Ole mother trying there.....
it is gonna take every diver working hard to control these rascals - here is my contribution to the effort in Cayman - ruclips.net/video/YLAeeYwfcl4/видео.html - feeding snapper and ruclips.net/video/6_BdtOFi_mg/видео.html - Feeding Moray
That Toad fish is one big Ugly Brute
One has to wonder whether divers are sufficiently monitoring the health of the various animals they're 'teaching to eat' lionfish...i.e every 3 hours up to 24 hours ????
I don’t understand why they would
@@culturedswine4003 to see if the poison lionfish kills the animal that eats it
@@richardkatz8713 but the reason that they’re teaching these animals to eat the lion fish is because they are immune to the lion fish’s venom. Groupers, large eels, some sharks, cornet fish and some trigger fish can eat lion fish as well. No animal in the world has no natural predators (except maybe orcas).
@@culturedswine4003 if not studied for example find out if they survive after eating a lionfish it's pure speculation
@@richardkatz8713 but this behavior was already observed in the lion fish’s natural habitat and what eats it would’ve most likely been discovered around the time that the lion fish itself was discovered. Do u think the animals are just inedible and have no natural predators cause that’s what ur implying?
Lionfish is poisonous would this not killed the other fish?
+Patty jay Dead lionfish cannot extend their venomous barbs.
Patty jay they definitely sting long after they die
If you look closely this one wasn't completely dead.
Toadfish are also venomous so I guess it just doesn't work on them or something lol
Toad fish are immune to the venom
stand with the fish lion fish lives matter disliked and reported
We use a lionfish pole spear