Keeping a dwarf lionfish

[paddyob]

In the first pic the white lines around the fish make it appear super imposed or photo shopped. Kinda funny.

Do much editing?

Originally Posted by sphelps

While I suppose not all lions are the same I would still conclude an aggressive one to be rare and not typical. I've kept many lions and always together with various tank makes including other lions, frogfish and other scorpions. In addition many others do the same and you'll even often see multiple lions in one tank at the LFS. I've never seen territorial or real aggression behavior from a lion, it's always protective in the form of pointing or waving fins at approaching threats, this is especially true of the Fu-man.



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[The Grizz]

I have a Fuzzy Dwarf Lion in my FOWLR with a couple Triggers, couple Puffers, couple Damsels and a trio of Clowns.

It was not eating anything at all for the first week or so but it really got hungry finally, My FOWLR residents all really like krill & silversides all chopped up.

I dump about a half ounce or so into the tank and the Lion finds what he wants & sucks it back.

The funnest was when the lion & my Valentini Puffer where tracking the same piece of krill. The lion won the food but the puffer gave the lion a one heck of a headbutt, rammed right into the lion right in the mouth. Now at feeding time the puffers and lion are on different sides of the tank.

[whatcaneyedo]

I got mine in 2009 from a LFS that had already taught it to eat frozen. For the last three years I've been feeding it silversides or krill every second day by mounting them into the end of a length of hollow acrylic rod.

Why don't you want to put a skimmer on your FOWLR?

[tang daddy]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I got mine in 2009 from a LFS that had already taught it to eat frozen. For the last three years I've been feeding it silversides or krill every second day by mounting them into the end of a length of hollow acrylic rod.

Why don't you want to put a skimmer on your FOWLR?

Very nice fish, the reason why I don't want to add a skimmer is because the 50g breeder has limited space. 1/3 is the overflow and the rest is the display, the tank is not drilled for a sump and sits against the wall so it can be viewed as a peninsula (3 sides of viewing)

I use to have a tunze 9002 on it previously but found it hardly did any skimming and because the overflow side water fluctuates it would cause the skimmer to overflow or act up and also I had alot of microbubbles in the display. The skimmer cup would need to be emptied every 2-3 days. Doing 10g waterchange weekly is gonna be alot easier for me.

I bought a volitan lionfish yesterday, it is very small at about 2.5", I am waiting for a healthy Fu man chu to come in then I will trade this guy in!

[Cubeman]

Paul's Aquarium in Surrey sells saltwater mollies. Would these easy to breed livebearers be a good food source?

[2bafish]

I've got 2 volitans and 2 dwarf zebra lions. Neither of them eats frozen foods. I've tried everything but i always give in to live food after them not eating for a month.

[bluerockz]

Originally Posted by Cubeman

Paul's Aquarium in Surrey sells saltwater mollies. Would these easy to breed livebearers be a good food source?

I was wondering that too if feeding them live mollies is a proper food source

[tang daddy]

Ive had a high fin dwarf for a couple months now....I am glad it readily took shrimp as it makes it easy for me to feed him 3 times a week.

[Mandosh]

high fin dwarf? Do you have a pic?

[Bugsy]

Hello Chris,

I had a dwarf lionfish a few years back. It came to me on frozen foods but.... it was sure not easy to feed. Although it did eat the varieties I fed it I had him for just about 1 year and then he died. Beautiful fish very hard to keep in my opinion.