Groupers eating lionfish

[jaa1456]

Well everyone knows about the Lionfish problem in the Carribean and surrounding areas. Now they are teaching Groupers to eat them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNGAlXZnKY&feature=player_embedded

 

[THEDLO]

lol till it chokes and dies....

 

[Coralium]

lol till it chokes and dies....

thats what i thought lol i wonder if it harms them

 

[Reeftanker3295]

The groupers probably just crush the lions with their jawbone before the lion even puffs up.

 

[Dre]

Caribbean Groupers can grow to tremendous sizes the problem is that groupers are eaten by humans and they may become ciguatoxic from the lionfish's toxic venom. Just a thought.

 

[THEDLO]

hmmm good point.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

yea i would think the poison would kill the groupers or atleast make them very sick?

 

[THEDLO]

lol the grouper died right after he swallowed it that y the video was clipped i kid. groupers eat lion fish babies in there natural location what they want is the local groupers to do the same to combat the problem there having in the gulf and Caribbean

 

[bizzarro]

I'm sure that and whatever will fit in their mouths will be eaten.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Ciguatera poisoning comes from eating prey fish who have accumulated poisons from algae..I believe Dinoflagellates. I'm not familiar with the lionfish toxin, but I'm pretty sure that its a protein...must be, as I've heard that someone stung by a lionfish should put the wound under the hottest water possible. That is what you would do to denature a protein. So if that's the case, the poison would just be digested and have no effect. If the grouper died afterwards, it was probably from being stung in the throat.

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

My Green moray ell eat 2 lionfish with no problems, lost $300 in 2 weeks