Ocean Motion

To get a better mental picture of how this invasive species interacts with its foreign environment, I hit upYouTube...
I came across a pretty sweet video. If you've never had that awesome high school science teacher who showed Oceans videos from BBC on a fun Friday, indulge now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGhsMhZtF0

Look at them go! I got so nervous that the divers were going to get too close and be lionfish victims! They really are gorgeous fish, and pretty big ones too (at least for the coral reef environment). But they look so out of place, like the Grasshoppers in the ant hill in Disney Pixar's A Bug's Life. They dominate that coral reef!

http://mtmotorstables.blogspot.com/2010/11/top-10-kids-movies-with-hidden.html

The difference is that life isn't always like a Disney movie. The native western Atlantic fish will not be able to join forces and fight back against the invasive lionfish, which is what the ants did against the hoppers in the film.