Banded Scat

[Cammy]

Did anybody see these little things on the telly last night. Ben Cropp was doing a show on box jellyfish up north. These little fellas are one of the only natural predators of box jellies....they were tearing into them and having a good old feed. mmmmmmmm I like aeroplane jellie. Another interesting thing on the show was box jellyfish have four eyes.

yes i saw part of this episode, as i usually stay up and watch whatevas on tv and i watch this show when its on, but i hate it when they kill the sea turtles! like comon its a turtle, and yes i no it was filmed way back when...

Cammo

[Az]

yeh have even caught these in the upper reaches of norman creek around coorparoo..
I was very suprised to find them up there!!

[the gecko]

Hi Silent,

Got some baby ones in my castnet last week, about 1 inch long,
got a 40cm one last year on the goldy.

I see em for sale in a local seafood shop! Ive heard they are bad eating, but someone is eating em.

Does anybody know if the spike is still painfull when the fish is dead ?

Andrew

[Silent]

I see em for sale in a local seafood shop! Ive heard they are bad eating, but someone is eating em.

Does anybody know if the spike is still painfull when the fish is dead ?

Andrew

Gidday Andrew,

I ate it and tasted not bad, similar to trevally...

I would not dare to test on dead scat, too afraid

[Cammy]

Hi Silent,

Got some baby ones in my castnet last week, about 1 inch long,
got a 40cm one last year on the goldy.

I see em for sale in a local seafood shop! Ive heard they are bad eating, but someone is eating em.

Does anybody know if the spike is still painfull when the fish is dead ?

Andrew

theres only one way to find out

im guessing it would be, as happy moments still sting after they are dead and shriveled up, i found this out when my mate threw a dead one at me and natural instinct was to hit it away, stupidly . but yer i would say yes.

Cammo

[o bag]

never eat them if they have been caught around trawlers or moorings, you know why they do get called scats?becuase they eat poo, but they are a very nice looking tank fish, got 4 atm 2 about 10cm and 2 about 3cm had to more but they got eaten by my butis, they arent going to be happy