thank you , i thought i was the only one the realized that it didn't eat anything, only thing is was ( what you mentioned ) and be a cool water dog. was looking forward to lion fish being taken down by the monster grouper.
I once made a harness with a spear attached to it. I attached the device to a large grouper and after just a few hours of teaching him how to use it he was hunting down his prey with the spear. It was very rewarding to watch him use the spear. Eventually he broke it though and I decided not to make another. He died one day testing out a stun gun I had crafted for him.
Various different species of grouper and eels have common hunting duos. Many Species of Goby team up with Pistol Shrimp and share burrows. Goby that team up with Shrimp are healthier.
They are actually very tame and friendly when diving, just like small mouth bass in a river or lake they are super friendly and not afraid of you when your diving and u can feed them crayfish right from your hand. They don't like you waiding close to them or seeing u in a boat above them though they will swim off quickly. Some Goliath groupers though are monstrous big down below though in the ocean, so big you think twice about getting close to them. I'm talking 3X to 4x the size of this one
@@atlasjwilliam7938 It's a mockery, I know they don't all eat as much as they are, whatever. My best friend is Franco Chinese from Singapore, so hey ^^ lol . It's like saying "the French all eat Frogs". U_U Why do you want to eat such a cute animal, especially since there is nothing to eat on it, you have to kill hundreds of them to eat together, it's awful, it's so cute the frogs or Treefrog their arboreal cousins, with their big eyes , I don't eat too cute animals, unless it's the end of the world and there's nothing else x)...
Truth is, fish have a protective film of mucus over their scales that when removed opens the skin up to infection. By stroking a fish you remove the protective film.
@@DrCrabfingers I'm pretty sure that only really applies when you're roughly handling small fish for extended periods of time. A pat or two on a fish the size of a grouper isn't really all that harmful, or so I think anyways.
@@gluesniffingdude People underestimate wild animals. If a human touching them was enough to harm them they wouldn’t have survived for ages in the wild.
love the respect dude a lot of people just fucking start petting everything they see but it’s awesome to see humans doing their own thing and leavin the rest of the ecosystem unbothered
"Leaving the rest of the ecosystem unbothered" according to the description actually doing a positive good in this case: helping get rid of invasive lionfish.
@@josepshchavez4337 Well yes he is doing sport but he isn‘t disturbing anything in the ocean because after all we are also part of the nature so there is nothing wrong with human beeings in the ocean jsut diving
I've been diving since I was 14. I once saw a grouper the size of me, it just swam right under me peacefully. I wouldn't pet it to not irritate it's skin but the temptation was there.
I can't help but find it adorable seeing the diver petting the goliath grouper, even though I know that being in such close proximity to a wild animal is unwise at best.
my granddad used to dive at this one shipwreck and he had pictures of this absolutely MASSIVE grouper that they befriended. He and his team would go down and knock on the side of the ship, wait a minute, and then she'd come out and swim around with them. They were over in Croatia in the 80s, but they managed to get her tagged so no one could kill her!! She could still be down there as they can live for over 40 years.
I like how it was curious as to "the nasty stingy things" that were going away after the divers came in. Oddly enough. I feel like it understood how important the humans visit was. It just didnt understand the general context lol...
@@captainjacksparrow5735 Being patriotic is as simple as doing the right thing for your community because it's right. The ocean is his country The lionfish is bad for his country
Crikey, they weren't kidding with the name. I suppose when you're that size, being petted by divers is just your due. Well done harvesting the lionfish - they're invasive pests. I wondered if the grouper was waiting for you to take it off your spear as, apparently they are one of the few species that can eat them. I imagine there's a specialised technique and the lionfish facing the right direction would play a large part in it. 😊
I wonder, with how massive those fish are, and I assume their inherently large brains (by fish standards), are they any smarter than other fish? And if so, by how much?
same.... plenty of the videos I have seen seem to indicate some type of curiosity, and watching them stalk prey, it certainly looks like its conscious process to a degree...
The grouper new exactly what you were doing. When the spear pierced the lion fish it let out the equivalent of a scream that the grouper clearly heard but wasn’t bothered by it.
Grouper aka DNR: You guys got a fishing license? Diver: Yes sir, I’ll pet your head while you read it. Grouper: Ok license is good. Have a great day fella’s. Catch as many of these spikeydoo’s as ya want.
Fish: "Hewo, I am Fred." Diver: "Howdy Fred, have some pats." Fred the fish: "Aww thanks. Imma go down dis way hurr." Diver: "Atta boy Fred, that's a good lad." Fred the fish: "I float by this rock and watch hurr."
