My 55 Gallon SW Lionfish tank

[DanG]

I love the way you have that tank set up.

Sweet pics too.

[Raf]

Thanks!

Believe it or not, the spotfin lion trained the dwarf to eat frozen. When I first went to the store and saw the spotfins, they were very small and still not eating, or at least so said the LFS employee. I asked her to add some baby guppies to the tank to gauge if there was any interest in the food what so ever. I watched them for almost 20 minutes and only one was looking at the guppies and following them around the tank. I knew then, this was the one to get....at least it would eat live food.

I got him home and decided to try out some PE Mysis on him. I have had great success feeding this food to picky eaters, like the seahorses we also have. Anyways, the first few days, he only looked at the shrimp pass by and did not eat them. On day 3, he started to follow the shrimp as they drifted in the current. On day 4, he took his first bite and from then on, he eats as much as he can catch in the current.

As for the dwarf lion, i knew they were challenging to feed before I even started looking for one. But I went into J&L and saw this little guy in a tank. He was the most active dwarf lion I had ever seen. He followed me back and forth throughout the tank and kept looking at me. I knew that this guy was healthy and would be a good candidate to train on frozen. At the time, he was not even eating live according to the staff.

Well, the first week at my place he did not eat anything but observed the spotfin feeding on the mysis. After a week, he started to follow the mysis around similar to how the spotfin first did and the day after, started eating. He now eats more vigorously than the spotfin!

So basically, when purchasing these guys, make sure you observe them in the store for a good while. Get one that is active, looks and acts healthy and if possible, already eating. And then, sometimes the already trained fish will teach the new additions how to feed.

Sorry for the essay lol!

[Midknight]

We love well written essays, and this was. These helps other make good choices in their fish purchases and help in the keeping of the creatures we love. It might sound logical to you but if someone isn’t aware of things, such as watching a fish in a store or asking the clerk to feed it to make sure that it does eat, they are will not be properly armed to select the proper items, be it livestock or hardware. So keep up the writing because we all love to learn something new.

Dan

[phreezee]

Great Pics!