LION-FISH

this beautiful lion-fish is very colourful. they always vary very much in colour. they don’t move around a lot during the day, they relay on their perfect ability to camouflage. the leafs and frills that grow on them, are to attract fish, as soon as they come close, the lion-fish swallows it’s pray.

when you make a night-dive they follow the light of your dive-lamp, the lamp attracts fish, and they hunt on them. they have poisonous spikes, so don’t touch. they are not aggressive, but when they hunt in small groups at night in the light of your tourch, they can make you feel uncomfortable.

~ by diveduck on November 15, 2007.