People are naturally fascinated by venomous animals and often very curious about the effects their venom might have on people they bite or sting. Any marine aquarium hobbyist who’s kept a lionfish, rabbitfish, saltwater catfish, or other fish species equipped…
Man catches world record lionfish…off coast of Alabama
Lionfish are a huge problem in the Gulf of Florida and Atlantic, and one man from Biloxi, Mississippi, found out just how big when he caught a world record 1-pound, 11.2-ounce lionfish off of Dauphin Island (off the Alabama coast). The previous…
Pterois paucispinula: Mombasa lionfish is split into two species
Lionfish get a bad rap these days for a single species that is an unwelcome visitor to Caribbean reefs. But the Mombasa lionfish is now represented by two species that know where they belong geographically. Pterois paucispinula is the new species…
Check out this insane concentration of invasive Lionfish
If you have any doubts about just how severe the lionfish invasion is on the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mexico, just check out this video. This YouTube video uploaded by Alex Fogg was taken on a recent dive with…
Florida officially bans import of Lionfish
Ret Talbot has just reported on his “Good Catch Blog” the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commissioners today have unanimously proposed a set of rules that ban the importation of lionfish from the Pterois genus and sets other rules for the harvest and possession…
Diving in Cuba and enjoying a lionfish barbecue with collectors of Gramma dejongi
I like travelling and diving nearly as much as reefing. These hobbies combine often bring me to great places. Although I currently do not keep any Grammas in my reef, I do love them a lot. When I saw Gramma dejongi for…
Fu Manchu lionfish are reef-safe, especially when they are tame
Lionfish are not the first fish we think of as suitable reef aquarium residents, but this has more to do with their propensity to eat small fish and inverts and the hit their food requirements places on the biology of…
New website Lionfish Lair looks to connect hobbyists with “things that sting”
Lionfish often get a bad rap. One reason is because they are invasive in the wild and secondly, many times these unique fish get in the hands of hobbyists that don’t know how to care for the exotic beast. Lionfish…
Friday Smorgasbord: Massive flame scallop reef, fish tornadoes and more
It’s the last friday in 2012 so that means the final installment of the Friday Smorgasbord for the year. To kick off the last smorgi post of 2012, we have a massive flame scallop reef off the coast of Scotland…
The perfect alien invasion: Mark Hixon talks predation at TEDxYouth event
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMTGAbCRV8[/youtube] Arnold Schwarzenegger battled the ultimate foe in the movie Predator and that dread-locked alien with the nasty teeth proved to be dreadfully lethal for humans and unfortunately, many organisms in the Atlantic Ocean are facing the same kind of alien predator — the lionfish.…
