STONEFISH

Hello! J

Can you see what creature in this picture?

It not just a unique stone, it is a Stonefish!

So, in this entry, I will share another knowledge on Stonefish which is also known as the most venomous fish in the world. They usually can be found in the coastal regions of Indian and Pacific oceans and have 5 species of it. And between of these 5 species there are also species that live in the rivers.

As its name suggests, it’s a fish, a stonefish to be exact, which camouflages itself, resembling a greyish or brownish stone. so, that why its name is refer to stone. Thus these animals are usually lying around on the sea floor around tropical reefs. With their appearance they are more look just same like the reefs and that make hard for humans or the predators to notice them. So, most cases happened that a divers accidentally stepped on the  stonefish back that actually located their 13 large spines.

The picture shows the large spines that usually humans mess step on it

Why does these animals known as the most venomous of all fish? Where does their venom?

So… Their venom will be release at the large spines on their back. That will give bad effect to the divers when they mess step their feet on the stonefish back. The nuerotoxic venom causes extreme pain to humans. The possible reactions are severe shock, heart failure, infection and also will cause to death after 2 hours. The wound that obtain by the touching of stonefish also will not easily recovery and it usually takes few months. There is an anti-venom available and scalding hot water also helps to stop the venom's activity.

After mess stepped on Stonefish

Stonefish is a type of animals that using tactic of surprise in attacking their prey. Actually stonefish is a slow swimmer. However, when it became the predator it will swims faster in catching the prey and the whole attack only lasts for 0.015 seconds. This shows how fast the stone fish can be!

It also can stay last longer about 24 hour out of the water and the weird is this fish can split water!

How wonderful our world creatures are! So, start taking action in saving them for our next generation views J