Red Lionfish

THE PERFECT INVADER

Diet

• Eat 10x their body weight in small fish and invertebrates every day

• Easily wipe out populations of other reef fish, such as native snapper and grouper, by swallowing them all whole

Agility

• They live in coral and rocky reefs, usually hiding in crevices and caves

• Slow and stealthy

Defense Mechanisms

• Venomous spines on their dorsal fins

• Very aggressive

Superpower

• Invasive species from Indo-Pacific

• Able to take over an ecosystem causing them to be really hard to remove