Eschmeyer's Scorpio Fish: A sociopath who lives alone in an aquarium. He will stab the rest with poisonous needles (8 photos)

You would know how knowledgeable we have become in the family life of the zodiac couple Pisces + Scorpio while we were selecting material for today’s article! It's funny, but astrology and science agree on one thing: Scorpio fish is the perfect combination of beauty, weirdness and toxicity!





Our guest today has fish and scorpio features intricately mixed. The mestizo got the best from fish: look at those luxurious curtains of fins, at those eyebrows! You won't find this in beauty salons - it's a natural luxury. But behind the beautiful appearance hid the cold nature of the arthropod. Like other representatives of the scorpionfish family, the fins of the scorpion fish contain sharp needles, heavily flavored with poison. Depending on the conditions, its quality ranges from “Very painful” to “Deadly”.



Bushy eyebrows and warts. Hmm, is this grandfather?

What follows from this? That's right, you shouldn't reach for bright sea things. The cocktail of neurotoxins will cause severe pain, muscle spasms, nausea and vomiting. In more severe cases, you may find yourself in intensive care and hear from doctors that they had to bring you out of a coma and maintain your heart rhythm. In rare cases, you may not detect yourself at all.





Look into his eyes, this animal will use poison without hesitation!

It's better to admire the fish from afar. Arm yourself with scuba gear and head to the Pacific or Indian Oceans. There, among the stones, changing its color to suit the surrounding conditions, the scorpion fish will sit.



Disguised himself.

Like most scorpionfish, it is an ambush predator. The fish are good at short distances. But the scorpion fish moves from place to place by crawling - the animal slowly and comically pushes off the ground with its fins.



With such a mouth, the fish swallows its victims in one go.

Representatives of this species are often kept in marine aquariums, although this is not an easy task. With an average length of 20 cm, she will need a single chamber with a volume of 300 liters. The animal is extremely territorial - it even tears its own relatives to shreds. Other animals will disappear from the aquarium on their own: the scorpion fish will arrange a fascinating journey through the esophagus for all small animals.



Two individuals of approximately equal strength can live side by side for some time. Until one of them weakens. In this case, our hero is sitting with a scorpion fish from a different species.

Even during the mating season, their sociopathy hardly decreases. The male and female do not trust each other and keep their distance, fortunately their fertilization is non-contact. The female releases several thousand eggs at the surface of the water. And then, depending on your luck, the parents are not worried about the fate of their offspring.



When you come home, I'll eat it.

The eggs dangle at the surface for several days until the fry emerge from them. Fearing predators of the deep, they will continue to swim in the upper layers of water and feed on plankton. They will sink to the bottom, to their relatives, only when they reach a couple of centimeters in length.



My rating for Scorpio fish: 7 stinging scorpions out of 10 sociopathic fish. The animal is so nuisance that it has no commercial value. Our heroine is caught in small batches, but only to create an antidote to her own poison. In general, toxic and unpleasant animals are thriving, as always.